News Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Historical Construction/Impressions

Rich T

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Practical Pig said:
I have to wonder to what degree Disney may try to integrate the emerging hotel service automation technologies into this hotel, like functional "droid" bellhops, "droid" room service waiters, and "droid" housekeeping or housekeeping support. Hotel service automation has been a topic in the "Fair Share" thread, and this project seems tailor made to experiment with this potential.
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Two words: Lawsuit City. This is a family hotel with children everywhere. This is not a situation in which Disney will experiment with using free-roaming robotics. Everything about this project will have to be ok'd with the legal department.
 
Practical Pig

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Rich T said:
Two words: Lawsuit City. This is a family hotel with children everywhere. This is not a situation in which Disney will experiment with using free-roaming robotics. Everything about this project will have to be ok'd with the legal department.
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Oh, absolutely! "Experiment" was a poor choice of words. The resort certainly won't become a test-lab for R&D. R&D would have to advance to a point that any product would clear legal first, of course. But in other conversations here, it's claimed that these techs are in development. Disney is in the Hotel business and always looking at ways to control costs, and the Star Wars Resort Hotel seems like an obvious place to showcase newly-emerged commercial automation technologies that could, if successful, spread across their hotel operations for considerable future savings. I think they have motivation here.

An initial small first-increment "droid" deployment could simply be robot vacuums and mops that accompany housekeeping into a room and clean the floor while the toilets are cleaned and the beds made by the human, for instance. And delivery robots are already allowed on the sidewalks of a number of states.
 
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Rich T said:
Two words: Lawsuit City. This is a family hotel with children everywhere. This is not a situation in which Disney will experiment with using free-roaming robotics. Everything about this project will have to be ok'd with the legal department.
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Disney already has been experimenting with free-roaming robotics in the parks with droids in anticipation of SW:GE and the new hotel:

 
MisterPenguin

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Hatbox Ghostbuster said:
I just still find it hilarious that they go to all the trouble of making this grandiose concept art to show off their immersive hotel...and then they include some dingus on his laptop, totally oblivious to everything.

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Rich T

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Disney Irish Bruh said:
Disney already has been experimenting with free-roaming robotics in the parks with droids in anticipation of SW:GE and the new hotel:

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You know darn well what a huge difference there is between monitored show robotics and free roaming hotel droids. We'll have that kind of robotics in hotels just about when we get through a full year without a "self-driving" car killing someone.
 
Practical Pig

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Rich T

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Dr. Hans Reinhardt said:
https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...-resort-planned-for-walt-disney-world-resort/


*raises hand*

After about 2 decades of new Disney Princess experiences popping up whenever you blinked a Star Wars Hotel sounds like heaven to me.
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Blech. Blech to Princesses, too, but I'd take AK Lodge or Wilderness Lodge over a SW hotel any day. And don't forget you'll be paying thousands of dollars for something you'll be unconscious through for around 8 hours of each expensive day. Grump, grump, grouse, grrrrr. :D
 
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Rich T said:
You know darn well what a huge difference there is between monitored show robotics and free roaming hotel droids. We'll have that kind of robotics in hotels just about when we get through a full year without a "self-driving" car killing someone.
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Point was they are already testing them in the parks. And have been testing them in the hotels at WDW as well using Relay from Savioke:

http://www.savioke.com/blog/2017/10...ing-good-morning-america-make-plans-for-relay

Its going to be here sooner than you think.
 
Practical Pig

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Rich T said:
You know darn well what a huge difference there is between monitored show robotics and free roaming hotel droids. We'll have that kind of robotics in hotels just about when we get through a full year without a "self-driving" car killing someone.
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It will be a process of test/response/correction/redeployment/rinse and repeat. :) But the tech is advancing at a rather alarming rate. And again, there are already real-world models operating on crowded city streets, an environment much more complex than a hotel hallway full of limited and precise destinations with more predictable challenges to get there..

 
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Rich T said:
Yeah, that looks adorable. Now add in your average mob of Disney park guests in a hotel setting.
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What could possibly go wrong??? :D
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Sure there will be a learning curve with the public at Disney parks. But you'll be surprised how quickly the public accepts new technology like this especially when it makes their stay better and more convenient.

These autonomous bots are already in use in some of the busiest hotels and cities around the world.
 
Rich T

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Practical Pig said:
It will be a process of test/response/correction/redeployment/rinse and repeat. :) But the tech is advancing at a rather alarming rate. And again, there are already real-world models operating on crowded city streets, an environment much more complex than a hotel hallway full of limited and precise destinations with more predictable challenges.

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In the big picture, this is all still very small and very controlled. And, sure, in a vacuum, hotel robots have less to deal with. But, as mentioned before, they'll be surrounded by idiot guests, unsupervised children, drunks, runaway emotional support dogs, thieves, vandals and just about any other scenario imaginable. Any public robotics at Disney will still have to be heavily monitored at this point, so their use will be very, very.... very... limited.
 
Rich T

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Disney Irish Bruh said:
Sure there will be a learning curve with the public at Disney parks. But you'll be surprised how quickly the public accepts new technology like this especially when it makes their stay better and more convenient.

These autonomous bots are already in use in some of the busiest hotels and cities around the world.
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When "learning curve" equals "injured children" on a Disney vacation... on social media.. on CNN... Just stop a sec and think of the headlines waiting to flood the planet. Disney is greedy, but they're not insane. Any use of robotics around guests will be heavily supervised.
 
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Rich T said:
When "learning curve" equals "injured children" on a Disney vacation... on social media.. on CNN... Just stop a sec and think of the headlines waiting to flood the planet. Disney is greedy, but they're not insane. Any use of robotics around guests will be heavily supervised.
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"Most important, Relay is safe around people -- and not just workers in steel-toed boots. Relay gracefully navigates through dynamic environments, avoiding all obstacles and people in his way. He is especially gentle and safe around children who often want to hug him or chase him through the hallways. In fact, the first time we installed Relay in a hotel, we saw a three year old’s bare feet through the robot’s eyes. That’s the safety case we designed Relay for. "

http://www.savioke.com/blog/2017/10...ing-good-morning-america-make-plans-for-relay

You don't think they are thinking of that when designing these bots?
 
Practical Pig

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Rich T said:
In the big picture, this is all still very small and very controlled. And, sure, in a vacuum, hotel robots have less to deal with. But, as mentioned before, they'll be surrounded by idiot guests, unsupervised children, drunks, runaway emotional support dogs, thieves, vandals and just about any other scenario imaginable. Any public robotics at Disney will still have to be heavily monitored at this point, so their use will be very, very.... very... limited.
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If I can add an "initially" to the end of your comment, I'm happy to agree with it. I wasn't intending to suggest that the SW Resort would open with all that slightly futuristic tech already in place. But it seems to me likely that this hotel will test-market (not test) potential practical robotic and AI technologies as they emerge, with the goal of finding efficient cost-cutting technologies for the future of WDC hotel operations.

I also don't think we are terribly far away from AI computer "entities" handling front desk and concierge services with low-staffed human oversight. Let me stress that I don't want to see these human jobs replaced with robotics, but you know ... history.
 
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Rich T said:
Blech. Blech to Princesses, too, but I'd take AK Lodge or Wilderness Lodge over a SW hotel any day. And don't forget you'll be paying thousands of dollars for something you'll be unconscious through for around 8 hours of each expensive day. Grump, grump, grouse, grrrrr. :D
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All I'm saying is that at worst a SW Hotel is better to me than another precious ©Disney Princess hug meet & greet or toddles and tiaras makeover shop, and at best it'll be a unique and innovative step forward for Disney P&R.
 

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