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PHOTOS: This Japan hotel is almost entirely run by robots

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Saturday, July 18, 2015
Two receptionist robots, left, greet a hotel employee demonstrating how to check in the new hotel, aptly called or Weird Hotel, in southwestern Japan on July 15, 2015.
A cloak robot moves a box loaded with items received from a guest during a demonstration for the media at Weird Hotel in southwestern Japan on July 15, 2015.
A porter robot, left, escorts a hotel employee while carrying his suitcase during a demonstration for the media at Weird Hotel in southwestern Japan on July 15, 2015.
A receptionist robot performs during a demonstration for the media at the new Weird Hotel in southwestern Japan on July 15, 2015.
The newly opened robot hotel Weird Hotel in southwestern Japan on July 15, 2015.
A receptionist robot, top center, accompanied by two other robots, greets a hotel employee demonstrating how to check in at Weird Hotel in southwestern Japan on July 15, 2015.
PHOTOS: This Japan hotel is almost entirely run by robotsTwo receptionist robots, left, greet a hotel employee demonstrating how to check in the new hotel, aptly called or Weird Hotel, in southwestern Japan on July 15, 2015.
AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi

SASEBO, Japan -- A hotel in southwestern Japan, aptly called Weird Hotel, is "manned" almost totally by robots to save labor costs.

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