What the hardware actually is
A&K Robotics Cruz Pod is a small electric indoor passenger pod. Tap a destination on the touchscreen, sit down, it drives itself through crowds using 360° lidar, cameras, sonar, and A&K’s own Kinesos AI motion planner. Live today at Vancouver International (YVR) and Madrid-Barajas — the latter run by Aena, the world’s biggest airport group at ~380M passengers a year.
Not a wheelchair replacement. A shared micro-vehicle for anyone who doesn’t want to walk 2km to Gate Z.
The API surface an agent can hit
A&K ships CruzFleet, a cloud dispatch layer airport ops already plug into their resource-management systems. It exposes route assignment, live pod telemetry, and remote stop/redirect. CruzRemote handles monitoring, CruzMapping keeps the indoor map fresh. No public MCP server yet, but an agent wired to CruzFleet could summon a pod to a gate when a flight lands, or pause the fleet during an incident.
Physical AI for accessibility is having its week. This is the clearest hardware example.
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