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Headline should read "Bay Area techbros make no attempt to read or understand basic flight policies, cause 1 hour delay"
Rich people being entitled. This is just the beginning. They want robots, that they don't have to pay a living wage, making money for billionaires. We pay taxes and the billionaires get our tax money. That's how the rich are sucking up all the money and removing the middle class.
Also for safety reason, less chances to be eaten by a robot than a wage slave
This was 100% a marketing stunt to get their startup's name in the news. And here we are. The unitree robot is designed to fold up for transport, and it comes in a shipping container.
According to TravelMath that is a 7.5 hour trip driving. I don't know what multiple plane tickets cost but driving has got to be cheaper, especially splitting gas among several people. Take away the hour delay, checking through security (do they still recommend arriving at the airport 2 hours early?), finding your luggage, renting a car - I don't see driving taking very much longer than getting on a plane.
Well... they weren't expecting this to happen, of course.
do they still recommend arriving at the airport 2 hours early?
Idk who "they" are but I was always taught 1 hour for domestic and 2 hours for international and it has never failed that I can recall, even amid this administration's multiple airport crises, and I've flown a lot recently.
Now, that doesn't mean I didn't encounter delays (I even had a 14-hour overnight delay or something monstrous like that, and several 2-to-4-hour delays and an entire reschedule to the next day), but they were never due to me not arriving early enough versus an issue with the plane, airport computers, weather, or runway.
There's no way they didn't know their lithium ion battery wasn't going to be an issue.
The robot should take the Amtrak instead of flying.
Don't diss Amtrak, they're actually doing what they can to make their travel offerings as decent as possible.
this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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