{"id":77175,"date":"2026-04-28T12:14:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/28\/humanoid-robots-baggage-handlers-japan-airports"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:14:34","slug":"humanoid-robots-to-become-baggage-handlers-in-japan-airport-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77175","title":{"rendered":"Humanoid robots to become baggage handlers in Japan airport experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country\u2019s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortages<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s famously conscientious but overburdened baggage handlers will soon be joined by extra staff at Tokyo\u2019s Haneda airport \u2013 although their new colleagues will need to take regular recharging breaks.<\/p>\n<p>Japan Airlines will introduce humanoid robots on a trial basis from the beginning of May, with a view to deploying them permanently as a solution to the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/30\/how-can-such-a-tiny-woman-drive-a-big-truck-japans-labour-shortage-forces-it-to-rethink-gender-stereotypes\">chronic labour shortage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/28\/humanoid-robots-baggage-handlers-japan-airports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country\u2019s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortagesJapan\u2019s famously conscientious but overburdened baggage handlers will soon be joined by extra staff at Tokyo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3492,376,41,88,611,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-artificial-intelligence","category-air-transport","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-robots","category-technology"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77176,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77175\/revisions\/77176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}