Watch: A robot brings room service to a journalist in Shanghai
The robot probably does not need a tip.
I called for more coffee pods in my Shanghai hotel room and this is how they came to me: pic.twitter.com/zqc9OLpXHA
— Anna Fifield (@annafifield) November 20, 2019
Anna Fifield, a journalist who works with The Washington Post, was in a for a surprise while staying at a hotel in Shanghai when she found out that a robot had come to deliver coffee pods to her room. Fifield is the Beijing bureau chief for the newspaper.
Fifield shared a video of the robot on Twitter, garnering close to 30,000 likes on the post. A user on the website asked her how the robot knocked the door to inform of his arrival, to which Fifield replied that she received a call from the robot saying that it was standing outside her door.
the robot called my room phone and told me (in Chinese and English) that it was waiting outside
— Anna Fifield (@annafifield) November 20, 2019