{"id":191035,"date":"2024-06-11T20:24:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T01:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/worlds-largest-robots-will-help-airlines-cut-carbon-emissions"},"modified":"2024-06-11T20:24:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T01:24:18","slug":"worlds-largest-robots-will-help-airlines-cut-carbon-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/worlds-largest-robots-will-help-airlines-cut-carbon-emissions","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s largest robots will help airlines cut carbon emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-largest-robots-will-help-airlines-cut-carbon-emissions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Norwegian startup is building massive AI robots to help airlines reduce their carbon emissions, save water, and inspect their planes in a fraction of the time it usually takes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> The aviation industry is responsible for about <a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/co2-emissions-from-aviation\">2.5%<\/a> of global carbon emissions, and while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/energy\/sustainable-aviation-fuel\">sustainable jet fuels<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/energy\/electric-planes\">electric propulsion systems<\/a> could one day slash that figure, airlines can reduce their emissions right now \u2014 simply by cleaning their planes more often.<\/p>\n<p>Washing an airplane\u2019s exterior reduces air resistance, which means it can decrease the amount of jet fuel a plane needs to burn by up to 2% \u2014 while that\u2019s not a <em>huge<\/em> difference, it can add up when you consider there are about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/fleets\/global-airline-fleet-will-grow-by-one-third-over-next-decade-oliver-wyman\/152828.article\">28,000 commercial jets<\/a> in the global fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Norwegian startup is building massive AI robots to help airlines reduce their carbon emissions, save water, and inspect their planes in a fraction of the time it usually takes. The challenge: The aviation industry is responsible for about 2.5% of global carbon emissions, and while sustainable jet fuels or electric propulsion systems could one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}