French Company Wants to Replace Human Airport Agents with Robots

The robot uprising seems far more sensible than we thought it would be.

The Telegraph’s Henry Samuel reports Thales, a French electrical systems company, unveiled technology that could one day replace humans checking passports at airports around the world.

Samuel writes on the promising technology featuring at the Paris Air Show: “It has designed a machine that scans passports prints boarding passes, and – the real novelty - records an image of the passenger's face and iris, sharing all the information with computers around the airport.”

Unfortunately, that would eliminate that wonderfully awkward moment when you stare straight ahead and decide whether you should smile or frown when a TSA agent looks at your passport, then at you and then back at the passport.

Source: Travel Pulse