--- description: It's like a cross between room service and Roomba title: Your Next Hotel May Be Swarming With Robots image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c7769313e402ae7/69887c95a988ca62416b67d0/savioke-relay-robots-hotel-room.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Your Next Hotel May Be Swarming With Robots  by [Julia Zorthian](/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 8, 2016 5:10 PM CUT  Relay, a robot manufactured by Savioke Inc., is displayed at the Bloomberg Businessweek Design 2015 Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 28, 2015\. The third annual conference brings the world's top designers and business leaders together to discover how design makes the world better, smarter, and more innovative. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Relay, a robot manufactured by Savioke Inc., is displayed at the Bloomberg Businessweek Design 2015 Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 28, 2015\. The third annual conference brings the world's top designers and business leaders together to discover how design makes the world better, smarter, and more innovative. Photographer: David Paul Morris/BloombergDavid Paul Morris—2015 Bloomberg Finance LP  by [Julia Zorthian](/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 8, 2016 5:10 PM CUT Room service across the country could get a reboot, as the start-up Savioke places [robot bellhops](http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hotel-robots-20160207-story.html "undefined") in hotels. The robots are called Relay, and are engineered to deliver supplies such as towels, toothpaste or coffee to hotel rooms, the [Los Angeles _Times_ reports](http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hotel-robots-20160207-story.html "undefined"). Once hotel employees stock the Relays with whatever needs delivering and punch in the room number, the 3-foot, 100-pound machines use Wi-Fi and 3D cameras to roll to their destination, call the customers inside and drop off the goods. Savioke has already placed the robots in 12 American hotels, and plans on expanding across America after receiving [$15 million in new financing](http://www.savioke.com/blog/ "undefined") last month. And it seems the Relay makes clean towels more exciting than ever before: the manager of one Mariott that uses the robots said customers will call in orders just to meet the robot. \[[_Los Angeles Times_](http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hotel-robots-20160207-story.html "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4212169/robots-hotels-room-service/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4212169/robots-hotels-room-service/"},"headline":"Your Next Hotel May Be Swarming With Robots","datePublished":"2016-02-08T17:10:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:07:24.176Z","description":"It's like a cross between room service and Roomba","url":"https://time.com/4212169/robots-hotels-room-service/","keywords":["Tech","Innovation","robots"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c7769313e402ae7/69887c95a988ca62416b67d0/savioke-relay-robots-hotel-room.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c7769313e402ae7/69887c95a988ca62416b67d0/savioke-relay-robots-hotel-room.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"savioke relay robots hotel room","caption":"savioke relay robots hotel room","creditText":"David Paul Morris—2015 Bloomberg Finance LP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4212169/robots-hotels-room-service/","name":"Your Next Hotel May Be Swarming With Robots"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Tech Time: The Future of Transportation","description":"Planes, Trains and Automobiles. 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