Japan’s oddball Henn na Hotel has fired half of its 243 robot staff. The reason? Because these labor-saving machines were causing more problems than they were solving -- and requiring humans to ...

Hotel fires half its robot staff for sucking at their jobs Bye bye, bots. Henn na Hotel in Japan laid off droids that annoyed customers by failing to perform simple tasks.

I've discovered everything from miniature sewing kits to hiking gear in hotels around the world. So I was delighted to find something new during my first hotel stay in Japan — a flashlight.