Ford Home Deliveries

Having this robot show up at the front step seems a bit scary, but I like the logic of its use.   Good additional details here from IEEE Spectrum.

Ford Self-Driving Vans Will Use Legged Robots to Make Deliveries

Agility Robotics’ Digit will bring packages from a delivery vehicle to your front door  By Evan Ackerman and Erico Guizzo

Next time you shop online, this skinny robot may show up with your package.

Agility Robotics Raises $8 Million for Commercial Bipedal Robots

 Agility Robotics designed its legged robots Cassie [left] and Digit to move in a more dynamic fashion than regular robots do.

Building Robots That Can Go Where We Go 

Cassie is a dynamic bipedal robot developed by Agility Robotics
Agility Robotics Introduces Cassie, a Dynamic and Talented Robot Delivery Ostrich
Ford is adding legs to its robocars—sort of.

The automaker is announcing today that its fleet of autonomous delivery vans will carry more than just packages: Riding along with the boxes in the back there will be a two-legged robot.

Digit, Agility Robotics’ humanoid unveiled earlier this year on the cover of IEEE Spectrum, is designed to move in a more dynamic fashion than regular robots do, and it’s able to walk over uneven terrain, climb stairs, and carry 20-kilogram packages. .... "