While Russian airlines might be struggling to keep their planes flying due to sanctions from the West, that’s not stopping them from innovating in other ways… or something.
Volodya greeted passengers at the gate and onboard the aircraft, assisted with (well, mimicked) the manual safety demonstration, and interacted with passengers throughout the flight. The robot is equipped with advanced reinforcement learning technology, allowing it to copy the actions of real flight attendants.
As you can see in the below video shared online, this seemed to be more for show than for anything else, since it’s not like the robot could independently perform the safety demonstration, serve food or drinks, etc. The robot appears to be based on the G1 model from China’s Unitree Robotics.
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