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Since George Devol invented the first digitally operated and programmable robot in 1954, hoteliers the world over have been trying to replace that ridiculously expensive and unreliable cost called “personnel” with automation.
Devol’s first machine, the Unimate, was installed in 1961 in a General Motors plant in Trenton, New Jersey, to lift and stack hot pieces of metal from a die-casting machine. Extraordinarily enough, the 669-room Yotel New York today
