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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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[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Aside from being a circlejerk for the companies competing their bots, I've never understood why they use humanoid bots for most tasks. Are they all really that vain to believe the human body, a bipedal body, is the ideal for jobs like this.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks 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.