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The Wire/April 28, 2026

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Humanoid robots to become baggage handlers in Japan airport experiment

<p>Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country’s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortages</p><p>Japan’s famously conscientious but overburdened baggage handlers will soon be joined by extra staff at Tokyo’s Haneda airport

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Humanoid robots to become baggage handlers in Japan airport experiment<p>Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country’s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortages</p><p>Japan’s famously conscientious but overburdened baggage handlers will soon be joined by extra staff at Tokyo’s Haneda airport
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