A hotpot restaurant in China is rolling out robots to cook and refill customers' soup. HaiDiLao International Holding, one of Asia's largest restaurant chains, is working with Japanese electronics giant Panasonic to bring the robotic staffers to their new Beijing location. There, robots will take orders, prepare and deliver raw meat and vegetables to customers, where they'll place them in customers' boiling bowls of soup at tables, according to Bloomberg. HaiDiLao International Holding is working with Japanese electronics giant Panasonic to bring the robotic staffers to their Beijing location. At HaiDiLao restaurants, guests choose from a range of soup broths as their base, then select items to be added to the soup a la carte, including meats, vegetables and other toppings.

Alibaba will soon deploy robot bellhops to deliver room service at hotels. The Chinese tech giant's A.I. Labs has unveiled a robot, dubbed'Space Egg,' which uses artificial intelligence to tend to hotel guests needs. It can deliver food or laundry and even recognize voice commands thanks to Alibaba's voice assistant, Tmall Genie. Space Egg stands at just 3.3ft and glides along at a pace of just two miles per hour. Once a guest places an order using the Tmall Genie in their hotel room, the aluminum robot picks up the item from an employee or a robotic dispenser and delivers it to the guest.

A Miami hotel has hired a robot to handle room service. Yotelpad, a 30-story building that's part hotel, part condominium, is employing three robot butlers for guests and residents. The nearly four-foot-tall purple robots get around on wheels and feature a cute, smiling face on a screen that greets guests as they arrive. A Miami hotel has hired a robot to handle room service. Yotelpad, a 30-story building that's part hotel, part condominium, is employing three robot butlers for guests and residents The machines can deliver room service, bring extra towels, give directions, chat with guests and play music.

Welcome to the 21st century, where a request for extra towels in your hotel room may be answered by a roughly 4-foot-high purple robot on wheels. Miami YotelPad -- an unfinished 30-story mixed-use development in downtown Miami -- will employ three robot butlers for its guests. These robots don't look like humans (thankfully?), but they're programmed to execute tasks normally left to their biological counterparts: delivering room service, playing music and even engaging in conversation. No one covers what is happening in our community better than we do. And with a digital subscription, you'll never miss a local story.