Now that real life has caught up with science fiction, the imminent danger isn’t malfunctioning cowboys, it’s the robots convincing us that we’re great and everything is totally fine
All the best science fiction movies eventually get overtaken by reality. Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report predicted personalised advertising and biometric identification. Spike Jonze’s Her correctly guessed that AI would probably arrive as emotionally responsive digital companions that sound like Scarlett Johansson, rather than rampaging killer machines. RoboCop imagined militarised law enforcement on the streets of America long before the Pentagon decided to get in on the action.
Could Westworld become the latest science fiction franchise to catch up to the future? Deadline reports this week that a new film based on Michael Crichton’s 1973 movie about rich thrill-seekers heading to a techno-pleasure park for violence, fantasy and consequence-free debauchery is in the works at Warner Bros, with David Koe
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Southwest Airlines now blocks humanoid and animal-like robots from traveling in the cabin or as checked baggage. The carrier confirmed the ban in an update to its website. The move came after multiple incidents involving robots on Southwest flights drew attention online. Viral incidents forced Southwest Airlines to ban humanoid robots A Southwest flight out of Oakland sat on the tarmac while the crew figured out how to secure a humanoid machine someone brought aboard. The robot started as carry-on luggage. The flight only took off after the robot was moved to a window seat and its battery was pulled out. In another case, Aaron Mehdizadeh, a Dallas entrepreneur, bought a separate seat for his 3.5-foot humanoid robot “Stewie” on a Las Vegas to Dallas flight instead of shipping it as freight. “Most people were very excited to see a robot flying and provided so much entertainmen
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Japan Airlines (JAL) kicked off a three year trial of humanoid robots at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. The airline partnered with GMO AI & Robotics to deploy two Unitree Robotics units for baggage handling, container transport, and cabin cleaning. The machines cost about $15,400 each. JAL went with the humanoid form because airports were designed around people, not wheeled machines. Bipedal robots can navigate the existing layout without forcing costly infrastructure changes. Japan’s shrinking workforce drove the decision Japan’s working age population is projected to drop 31% between 2023 and 2060. Haneda processes around 85.9 million passengers a year. JAL employs ~4,000 ground handling workers, and the Japanese government wants to hit 60 million inbound tourists annually by 2030 (up from 42.7 million in 2025). Demand for airport labor keeps climbing. The number of people available to do
Insider Brief UK robotics startup Humanoid has announced a deployment and supply agreement with Schaeffler to bring humanoid robots into live manufacturing operations. According to Humanoid, the agreement calls for phased deployment of Humanoid’s wheeled humanoid robots across Schaeffler facilities, with the first systems expected to begin operating at plants in Germany before the end […]
British technology company Humanoid will deploy humanoid robots at factories operated by German industrial supplier Schaeffler, Reuters reported. The two companies’ agreement covers an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 robots in Schaeffler’s global manufacturing sites by 2032, according to a Humanoid spokesperson. The companies have not disclosed the contract value. The first deployment is scheduled between […]
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Over 1,000 humanoid robots by Humanoid, a UK company, will now be working for Schaeffler, the German automotive and industrial supplier. Humanoid Two-year-old British startup Humanoid has signed a deal to integrate “a four-digit number of humanoid robots into live manufacturing operations” at German industrial giant Schaeffler’s factories starting later this year. The bigger news, however, might be that Humanoid has committed to buying a “seven-digit number of actuators” from Schaeffler over the term of the agreement, suggesting that Humanoid intends to ship a staggering 100,000 humanoid robots across all of its clients over the next five years. Four months ago, Schaeffler and a two-year-old British startup called Humanoid announced they’d put “several hundred” humanoid robots into the German industrial giant’s factories over the next five to six years. Something mu
Nanoleaf teased a trio of new products focused on embodied AI as it looks to move its brand beyond smart lighting. | Image: Nanoleaf
Smart lighting company Nanoleaf has been unusually quiet recently. While competitors such as Govee and Philips Hue have been pumping out new products and innovative features at an impressive pace, Nanoleaf has launched just a handful of smart lighting products in the last two years. There's a reason for this lull - the company has been going through a "brand evolution" focused on wellness, robotics, and, of course, AI.
"The smart home is getting kind of boring," says the ever-candid Gimmy Chu, CEO and cofounder of Nanoleaf, which he now doesn't want me to call a smart lighting company. "Our brand needs to evolve to incorporate some of the …
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