February is proving to be an interesting month as far as technology announcements go, first of all there was the news of a Japanese bank intending on using robot workers to deal with customers in banks, which could give a whole new meaning to the phrase “the computer says no” when applying for a loan.

Meanwhile, there was an interesting story of how California will allow the testing ofautonomous vehicles on public roads this year which suggests the world of automation is upon us much sooner than many realise.

However, in other news there is a 72-room hotel in Nagasaki, Japan that will open in July and will be staffed by robots who will not only greet guests, but also clean rooms and carry luggage, whilst the Japan Times reported that Hideo Sawada proudly stated “We will make the most efficient hotel in the world”

Suddenly the worlds that we saw in movies such as Westworld and Total Recall, could now become a part of our reality here in 2015 as humanoid robots known as Actroid’s step into the world of hospitality, but thankfully there is no mention of the T-1000 or Ed 209 making an appearance just yet.

The hotel is named Henn-na Hotel which depending on your Japenese translation or sense of irony, could mean Strange or Change Hotel. This where things begin to get a little creepy, as the robots will look almost human be able to greet guests in Japanese, Chinese, Korean and English.

In the future, we’d like to have more than 90 percent of hotel services operated by robots

Randomly you will be able to find the hotel inside a Nagasaki theme park called Huis Ten Bosch that just happens to be modelled to look like Holland and rooms will cost as little as $60 a night, but they also have strong ambitions for this new phenomenon to spread around the world with plans to build an additional 1,000 similar hotels worldwide

Actroids have been developed by Osaka University and manufactured by Kokoro, but are incredibly lifelike and understand hand gestures, eye movements and also use facial-recognition technology, but they are not quite ready to understand your poor jokes just yet.

These recent announcements will no doubt fuel various conspiracy theories about how our future world will be run by androids which will leave most of the human population out of work, not to mention the inevitable moment where they become self-aware.

The reality is that there is already a hotel called Yotel in New York that not only has a self-check-in kiosk’s but also features world’s first hotel robotic luggage handler, so we shouldn’t be too surprised at how technology is evolving at a breath-taking speed.

Even if you think a world of robots with jerky movements that look a little sinister are nothing but a gimmick, you can guarantee you will be hearing much more about this new form of hospitality as the summer approaches.

Are life like robots a step to far or is it something you find quite exciting? Is this the moment all those science fiction movies have prepared us for?