{"id":97182408,"date":"2016-10-07T18:10:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T18:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/?p=97182408"},"modified":"2016-10-07T19:07:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T19:07:53","slug":"the-future-is-now-robots-in-tokyo-airport-to-help-lost-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/the-future-is-now-robots-in-tokyo-airport-to-help-lost-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future Is Now: Robots in Tokyo Airport to Help Lost Passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been hopelessly lost in an unfamiliar airport? In\u00a0Japan, robots will soon be there to help you.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hands Airport Begins Testing Robots as Airport Guides | via Mental Floss <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A9oQKA3FRM\">https:\/\/t.co\/A9oQKA3FRM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R6JQNb3rkl\">pic.twitter.com\/R6JQNb3rkl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Visit Japan (@Visit_Japan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Visit_Japan\/status\/774284165042798592\">September 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last month, Tokyo&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\/cheap-flights-to-tokyo-tyo-japan?fpaffiliate=blog\" target=\"_blank\">Haneda Airport<\/a>\u00a0ran the first two proof-of-concept phases for a fleet of bilingual assistance robots to help travelers in their busiest terminal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\nJapan installs bilingual robots at Haneda airport to help guide tourists <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FFYXN3zQI7\">https:\/\/t.co\/FFYXN3zQI7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8lk3jjx6kx\">pic.twitter.com\/8lk3jjx6kx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MailOnline\/status\/773100416070549504\">September 6, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitachi.com\/New\/cnews\/month\/2016\/09\/160902.html\" target=\"_blank\">Electronics company Hitachi<\/a> created the roughly 3-foot-tall robot to help passengers navigate their way through the busy airport. They were initially placed in Terminal 2 (which is for domestic flights), close to one of the airport&#8217;s information boards and answered travelers&#8217; questions, showing them maps and images of the terminals.<\/p>\n<p>The final phase, set to launch this December, will see the robots guiding passengers requesting\u00a0help through the terminal to where they want to go, like their departure gate or a gift shop.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">See Hitachi&#8217;s humanoid robot EMIEW3 in action &#8211; you will want to take one home! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bxQSTLXiL6\">https:\/\/t.co\/bxQSTLXiL6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hitachi (@HitachiGlobal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HitachiGlobal\/status\/784098737287208960\">October 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The robot, named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitachi.com\/rd\/portal\/highlight\/robotics\/emiew3_01\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">EMIEW3<\/a>, has been in development for 11 years &#8212; and the work shows. The humanoid robot can interact with travelers in both Japanese and English (using over a dozen microphones to hear a single person in a crowded airport), as well as expertly navigate on rollerskate-like feet. It can even pick itself up if it&#8217;s knocked down.<\/p>\n<p>The operating system for the EMIEW3 robots allows them to not only function individually\u00a0in helping airport guests, but also work together, with a stationary desk robot passing off a traveler in need of assistance to a mobile EMIEW3 to show the way. Hitachi developers\u00a0have even designed a system where adrift air travelers don&#8217;t even need to ask for help. An\u00a0EMIEW3 will be alerted to people who&#8217;ve been\u00a0standing\u00a0motionless for sustained periods of time and approach them to offer assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Haneda Airport is the perfect launchpad for such a test, as it sees many fliers stopping in on layovers and needing assistance navigating the unfamiliar airport.<\/p>\n<p>Japan is no stranger to implementing cutting-edge technology into consumer-facing business: Last year the city of Nagasaki saw the opening of the first hotel <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/HsLkxJ75WQ\" target=\"_blank\">staffed by robots<\/a>, ditching hotel keys for face recognition technology.<\/p>\n<p>[perfectpullquote align=&#8221;full&#8221; cite=&#8221;&#8221; link=&#8221;&#8221; color=&#8221;&#8221; class=&#8221;&#8221; size=&#8221;&#8221;]The future is now! *Books flight to Tokyo*.[\/perfectpullquote]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been hopelessly lost in an unfamiliar airport? In\u00a0Japan, robots will soon be there to help you. Hands Airport Begins Testing Robots as Airport Guides | via Mental Floss https:\/\/t.co\/A9oQKA3FRM pic.twitter.com\/R6JQNb3rkl \u2014 Visit Japan (@Visit_Japan) September 9, 2016 Last month, Tokyo&#8217;s\u00a0Haneda Airport\u00a0ran the first two proof-of-concept phases for a fleet of bilingual assistance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":97182410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1540],"tags":[2442,1024],"class_list":["post-97182408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-news","tag-robot","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97182408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97182408"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97182408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97182427,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97182408\/revisions\/97182427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97182410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97182408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97182408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97182408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}