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Humanoid robots to become baggage handlers in Japan airport experiment (www.theguardian.com)
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Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country’s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortages

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[–] 3 points 6 months ago

In an infrastructure built for bipeds there may be advantages to such a design for flexibility of function. If this is truly a long term monotasker the only real advantage is PR / curb appeal.

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