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all_i_see@lemy.lol to World News@quokk.au · 2 months ago

Humanoid robots to become baggage handlers in Japan airport experiment

www.theguardian.com

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Humanoid robots to become baggage handlers in Japan airport experiment

www.theguardian.com

all_i_see@lemy.lol to World News@quokk.au · 2 months ago
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Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country’s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortages
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  • CobraCommander@quokk.au
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    Can they carry my emotional baggage?

    • Laslo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      They are not that strong.

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      That’s what people use GPT for

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

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

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      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.

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  • DishaweslemOride@lemmy.org
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    And this means those former workers get full pay and benefits for doing no work, right? Right???

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