Japan Airlines to Begin Humanoid Robot Trials at Haneda Airport This Month
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The trials will begin in early May.
Japan Airlines has started in May 2026 a pilot program to use humanoid robots in ground operations at Tokyo-Haneda airport, one of the world’s busiest with more than 60 million passengers per year. The airline has done so with its subsidiary JAL Ground Service and in collaboration with GMO AI & Robotics, a company of the GMO Internet group that has designated 2026 as its “First Year of Humanoids”. The program is scheduled to last for two years, …
Japan Airlines to begin humanoid robot trials at Haneda airport this month
Humanoid robots loading your luggage at the airport isn’t a far-off scenario. Japan Airlines (JAL) has announced a pilot program, starting this month, that will see this exact situation play out — though it’ll likely take longer to execute than just plonking C-3Po into the luggage bay. The reason for using humanoids instead of purpose-building an airport-bot? Their conveniently human shape “allows their introduction without significant modificat…
Japan Airlines (JAL) is trialing robots in ground handling - CargoForwarder Global
He still needs a little training to avoid damaging the ULD. Image: JAL There have been a few amusing videos making the LinkedIn rounds this week, illustrating what might become commonplace in the next decade. Japan Airlines (JAL) announced on 27APR26, that it has commenced a pilot project at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, to test the feasibility of humanoid robots in airport ground handling. If it is a success, it could go a long way to solving the gro…
Tests with humanoid robots start in Japan at Tokyo Airport. They are supposed to sort their luggage there and in the future they may also load cargo and clean aircraft cabins.read more on t3n.de
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