A TikTok video went viral on Monday, showing a woman laughing nervously as she backs away from a humanoid robot at Japan’s Henn-na Hotel.
“Don’t look at me,” she said, as the machine watched her. The scene underscores growing fears that robots are replacing humans in the workplace.
The awkward check-in has racked up hundreds of thousands of views and tapped into a deeper fear: robots that are a little too human.