Japan Airlines says it will trial humanoid robots as workers at Tokyo's Haneda Airport.
These robots may in future help clean cabins and operate ground support equipment.
Humanoid robots raced alongside humans in a half-marathon in Beijing.
Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory, its largest production base, has the potential to build humanoid robots in future, the company’s China president says, with its manufacturing efficiency and innovative capability seen as potential drivers of CEO Elon Musk’s hopes of commercialising the technology swiftly. Allan Wang Hao said in a media briefing on Tuesday that the Shanghai Gigafactory could provide a “golden key” to the mass production of robots designed to resemble and move like humans. “Like other...