WHILL, the Japanese personal-mobility startup, announced in June 2026 that it had brought its Autonomous Service to London Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 3, according to aviation trade press. The deployment is run in partnership with ABM, the UK’s largest provider of assisted-travel services.
WHILL’s self-driving devices let passengers with reduced mobility travel through terminals independently, then return to base autonomously. With Heathrow added, the company says its Autonomous Service now operates at 26 airports and facilities worldwide and has cumulatively delivered more than one million autonomous rides.
The Heathrow launch follows an April 2026 announcement of further expansion across North America, EMEA and Asia, including Paris Orly and Anchorage.
For international investors, WHILL is a rare example of a Japanese hardware-plus-services startup scaling a recurring, fleet-based model in regulated infrastructure abroad, riding global aging demographics.