Meh paywall here a tldr:

2015 opens the robot hotel in japan with 50 robots (in response to jp worker shortage)

Because of the good reception they add more (useless) robots - many don't work

Now they realise the robots who should reduce work, made work and half the robot staff.

Example was churi a doll in the room that woke up a snorer and frustrated guests because they expect alexa like capabilities.

https://www.efe.com/efe/english/technology/strange-robot-hot... (without paywall)

I really think HN needs to start highlighting paywalled posts.

95% of paywalled posts are from a small number of domains (wsj, nyt, etc), and domains are shown. I'm not a fan of paywalled links on an open discussion forum, but HN has decided to allow them quite purposefully.

However, I think if the comment section could generate more abstracts, we'd all be better off.

To get round the paywall for WSJ, click the “web” link next to the article link above, then the first result.

"To read the full story Subscribe or Sign In"

The "web" link has never worked for me (located in the EU, using Firefox on Linux). I'm assuming it works for some people, or it wouldn't be still there, but it doesn't work for everyone.

Post it on my rss reader on http://handlr.sapico.me

Right click - privacy window, it will work.

I prefix or affix the URL for some routing tricks. Which is something HN does not.

Kept it for myselve, but I'm reading less and less paywalled articles.

Once the trick comes known, I'll expect it to disappear though

Stupid wsj links