An Autonomous Container Trailer transports a cargo container at Changi International Airport in Singapore.

An Autonomous Container Trailer transports a cargo container at Changi International Airport in Singapore.

Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg
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The Airport of the Future Is Here. And It Doesn’t Need Humans

Singapore’s Changi Airport is blazing a trail when it comes to automation. 

Imagine landing at a major airport and the only human official you meet on your way through the terminal is a customs officer.

Singapore’s Changi Airport, voted the world’s best for the past six years by Skytrax, is pursuing that goal of extensive automation with such vigor that it built an entire terminal to help test the airport bots of the future.