CES 2020: Ford wants this two-legged robot to deliver packages to your door ZDNet

Ford has announced that it is purchasing a new two-legged, two-armed robot produced by Agility Robotics, which the car-maker hopes will soon be walking around neighborhoods carrying parcels from the delivery vehicle right up to your door. Going by the name of Digit, the five-feet tall humanoid can navigate its way across urban settings ranging from sidewalks to flowerbeds in a surprisingly human-like manner, due to the mobile limbs attached to its upper torso. The uncanny valley effect is fortunately avoided thanks to the robot's lack of a head. Digit has only just gone on sale, and the reason that Agility can boast Ford as the very first buyer is that the robot provides a solution to the so-called "last 50 feet problem". In the home delivery industry 2.0, those 50 feet are the final steps between the autonomous vehicle carrying a customer's order, and that customer's doorstep.