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With the announcement that Agility Robotics is selling two
Digit robots to Ford,
we are now that much closer to our
inevitable destruction.
Ford is the first customer to purchase Digit, Agility Robotics’
humanoid robot, with the intention of using it for commercial purposes. Ford plans
to leverage Digit in its push to explore smart mobility solutions, with a
specific focus on first-mile logistics and last-50-feet delivery. Digit will be
able to load packages into Ford autonomous vehicles and deliver them directly
to customers’ doors, the latter of which would not at all be a terrifying for
an unsuspecting homeowner to spy through their peephole.
Just imagine looking out your front door and seeing the thing
above. An aqua mannequin torso, headless, propped up by the robotic legs of a
goat. Surely, a being that has ascended from the very pits of robot hell, but
now it’s bringing you your Hello Fresh box or whatever you just ordered from
Amazon.
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“As online retailing continues growing, we believe robots
will help our commercial customers build stronger businesses by making
deliveries more efficient and affordable for all of us,” said Ken Washington,
vice president, Ford Research and Advanced Engineering, and Chief Technology
Officer. “We learned a lot this year working with Agility, now we can
accelerate our exploratory work with commercial Digit robots.”
Digit Robots: Bringers of Packages (and the Endtimes)
Ford had two pre-production Digit prototypes on display this
month at the CES 2020 show, and there has been no news since about either
suddenly coming to life and wreaking havoc across Sin City. Since the initial
reveal of the Digit prototype in May, Agility Robotics has further refined
the design and functionality to ensure that it will be of the utmost usefulness
for customers like Ford.
Let’s all just hope for our own sakes that nobody buys a
Digit and decides to equip it with a weapon of any kind.
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Kyle S. Johnson lives in Cincinnati, a city known by many as “the Cincinnati of Southwest Ohio.” He enjoys professional wrestling, Halloween, and also other things. He has been writing for a while, and he plans to continue to write well into the future. See more articles by Kyle.