Purpose: The purpose of this chapter is to elaborate on the major conceptual and practical
considerations of the use of robots, artificial intelligence and service automation (RAISA) in …

Travel, tourism and hospitality companies have started to adopt robots, artificial intelligence
and service automation (RAISA) in the form of chatbots, delivery robots, robot-concierge …

Focus on the ethics of a given technology tends to lag far behind its development. This lag
has been particularly acute in the case of artificial intelligence, whose accelerated …

Most people in the future will not need to work, at least in the ways in which we continue to
think about work/human labour. In this chapter, we discuss the role of humans in the future …

Purpose This paper aims to review the extant hospitality and tourism literature on the state of
robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) in the service industry. The aim was to highlight the …

The next 15-20 years will witness the massive introduction of robots–both as consumer
robots (including companion robots) and industrial robots as result of the advances in …

Interactions between humans and machines that include artificial intelligence are
increasingly common in nearly all areas of life. Meanwhile, AI-products are increasingly …

Millions of children, adolescents, and adults worldwide experience significant mental health
problems, for which they receive no treatment whatsoever. Despite decades of world-class …

Background Various types of robots have already been successfully used in medical care,
and the use of new technologies is also playing an increasing role in the area of sexuality …

How should we react to the development of sexbot technology? Taking their cue from anti-
porn feminism, several academic critics lament the development of sexbot technology …