Humanoid robots to become baggage handlers in Japan airport experiment

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/humanoid-robots-baggage-handlers-japan-airports

65 points · 8 comments · view on lemmy.world

8 Comments

CobraCommander@quokk.au · 10 pts · 109d (3 replies)

Can they carry my emotional baggage?

Laslo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 109d

They are not that strong.

inari@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 109d

That's what people use GPT for

deacon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 109d

Don’t take that too! It’s all the robots have left me with.

Visstix@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 109d (1 reply)

Why does it have to be humanoid? Why not shaped in optimal baggage handling efficiency?

porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 109d

Presumably because all the other stuff (trollies, height of conveyor belt, ...) is shaped and sized to accommodate the humans who have been doing this work thus far.

ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 109d

DishaweslemOride@lemmy.org · 1 pts · 109d

And this means those former workers get full pay and benefits for doing no work, right? Right???