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Japanese Airport Trialing Humanoid Robots as Baggage Handlers

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The future is truly upon us — because the next time your check-in luggage gets battered, you could be blaming a robot. Starting in May, Japan Airlines, in partnership with GMO AI & Robotics, will start trialing humanoid robots to help baggage handlers at Tokyo’s Haneda airport, it announced Monday, in the hopes that they could one day alleviate a labor shortage. In a demonstration held in front of the media, one of the mechanical helpers built b…

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Writing (ALN).- The Japanese Airlines (JAL), in collaboration with GMO AI & Robotics, will start this May a test with humanoid robots at Haneda Airport in Tokyo. The project, which will be extended for several years, seeks to respond to the shortage of personnel in ground handling operations. In [...] The Japanese airline ticket will test humanoid robots for ground handling at airports (+video) was first published in ALnavio.

In Japan, technology responds to labour shortages. Special helpers are now to be deployed at Tokyo airport.

The incessant ballet of the luggage carts on the tarmac of the airports could soon change choreography. In Japan, the next runway masters will not be human, but automatons designed to relieve an industry on the brink of exhaustion.

Technologueid Jakarta Japan Airlines JAL is taking a new step by testing the use of humanoid robots to assist baggage handlers at Haneda Airport. The trial, which...

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Technologue broke the news on Friday, May 1, 2026.
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