Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country’s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortages

  • lyralycan@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    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.

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      3 days 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.