[IMAGECAPTION]PHOTO: Narita Airport now has some technologically advanced workers. (Photo via Flickr/i nao)[/IMAGECAPTION]
The robot revolution has begun in earnest, continuing in Japan where contraptions are now clearing your table, you messy traveler.
CNET reports Chiba's Narita Airport has welcomed some of Panasonic's HOSPI robots to its location.
Unlike in other parts of the world where robots have served as basic curios, greeting travelers and highlighting where technology might take us, Narita's robots are actually getting their hands, um, servos dirty.
CNET explains these helpful robots are doing some grunt work: "collecting used plates from restaurants and food courts in addition to serving drinks and providing directional information to customers."
The following video illustrates not only what these adorable contraptions look like but what they can accomplish:
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This is just the tip of the robotic iceberg, because innovations such as the ones above are now peppering the globe.
Last September, Haneda Airport welcomed some helpful robots of their own. And back in 2015, Amsterdam featured a snazzy employee named Spencer.
More recently, LG unveiled a line of robots that will eventually take over the world, or simply help at airports. We can't be too sure.
Perhaps one day we will get off a Johnny Cab and throw our luggage at robots that will check our bags and lead us to other robots that will take us directly to our gates.
Until then we will gladly take boarding a flight only to discover that the seat next to us is empty as travel's current most joyous occasion.
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