While only a handful of these robots have been deployed for use in hotels in the United States, Intel Corp, an investor of Savioke, is anticipating seeing more of these helpers in both the hotel industry and residential communities in the future, probably even sooner than we think. Ten Thousand, a residential development expected to open in January 2017, has already established plans to deploy robot servants like Relay in each dwelling. Every home in the community will come equipped with an iPad Mini that already includes the app needed to operate Relay, in which residents will be able to order anything from food to flowers. Once an order is entered, a human team will assemble the ordered goods inside of the robot’s interior compartment for safe and private transportation.

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