Southwest Airlines Bans Humanoid Robots After Viral Passenger Flight Focus on Travel News By:Ece Torres 21 May 2026 at 12:23 Southwest Airlines has banned humanoid robots from its flights after a robot named Stewie completed what appears to have been one of the first commercial passenger journeys involving a human-like robot seated inside an aircraft [β¦] πΎSouthwest Airlines banned humanoid robots after a robot passenger flew from Las Vegas to Dallas on a commercial flight.