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.
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