China's e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has unveiled its first "future hotel", also known as "Flyzoo Hotel", in Hangzhou city, Zhejiang Province.

 

阿里巴巴在浙江杭州推出首座“未来酒店”。
 

 

Equipped with the latest leading technology, many futuristic features are enabled at the hotel, guests can check into the hotel without talking to anyone. They can walk straight to their rooms and get their faces scanned at the door to gain entry.

 

Robots can be found everywhere in the hotel, and they would guide the guests by providing recorded voice messages and accompany them during their stay. The guests can also control indoor temperatures, lighting¹ intensity², household appliances through their voices.

 

A very notable device that the hotel is equipped with is called "Tmall Genie³", which is an AI management system. The system will take orders from guests, including buying groceries.

 

Wang Qun, CEO of the Flyzoo Hotel, said "The new AI system will help to improve the management efficiency of the hotel, by reducing more than half of the labor⁴ forces."

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