{"id":295787,"date":"2026-05-01T23:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/295787\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T23:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:55:15","slug":"robot-dances-at-the-airport-gate-then-delays-southwest-flight-from-oakland-to-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/295787\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot dances at the airport gate, then delays Southwest flight from Oakland to San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A human-like robot delayed a flight from Oakland to San Diego on Thursday and caused a stir among passengers.<\/p>\n<p>The flight arrived in San Diego International Airport about an hour late,  according to <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/flight\/SWA1568\/history\/20260430\/2110Z\/KOAK\/KSAN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">data from FlightAware<\/a>, but at least those who  experienced the delay were treated to a show.<\/p>\n<p>A customer on the flight had purchased a seat for the robot, Southwest Airlines said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe device\u2019s lithium battery exceeded the maximum allowable size, so the customer was asked to remove it,\u201d the statement said. <\/p>\n<p>The robot had already been taken on board when the flight crew determined that its battery was too large and should be checked, causing a minor delay. The Transportation Security Administration put restrictions on lithium batteries on planes due to the risk of fire.<\/p>\n<p>In a video shared on Instagram by Elite Event Robotics, a business  that rents human-like robots for events, a child-sized robot could be seen dancing at a Southwest Airlines gate. <\/p>\n<p>Elite Event Robotics did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A human-like robot delayed a flight from Oakland to San Diego on Thursday and caused a stir among&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[125562,9182,10517,125560,125559,125558,143,13197,27845,30486,125561,74,76,75,22374,125557,3025],"class_list":["post-295787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-airport-gate","tag-customer","tag-delay","tag-elite-event-robotics","tag-human-like-robot","tag-lithium-battery","tag-oakland","tag-plane","tag-restriction","tag-robot","tag-robot-dance","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-southwest-airlines","tag-southwest-flight","tag-statement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}