Emirates Wants Amazon-Like Robots Sorting Out Airport Baggage
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Emirates, the world’s biggest long-haul carrier, can’t understand why robots -- like the ones used by Amazon.com Inc.’s warehouses -- aren’t handling airport baggage yet.
Outlining what automation, artificial intelligence and big data can do for air travel, the carrier’s President Tim Clark laid out a vision in which robots, with no need for human intervention, would ID bags, put them in prescribed bins and later take them out of the aircraft. His concept also includes cutting back on what is still the most laborious part of flying -- the central security search.