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This is the best summary I could come up with:
At today’s Delivering the Future event, Amazon announced that it will begin testing Agility’s bipedal robot Digit in its facilities.
Amazon Robotics Chief Technologist Tye Brady said the testing is in its “very, very early stages,” adding, “We’re taking a lot of care to understand it better and see if there’s a fit for our processes.”
Reading between the lines here, there’s no guarantee that Amazon will actually begin deploying Digit to its warehouse facilities, which currently utilize north of 750,000 robot systems.
“Digit can move, grasp, and handle items in spaces and corners of warehouses in novel ways,” Amazon writes.
“Its size and shape are well suited for buildings that are designed for humans, and we believe that there is a big opportunity to scale a mobile manipulator solution, such as Digit, which can work collaboratively with employees.
In September, the company announced that it is ramping up production in a serious way with the addition of RoboFab, a factory located in Salem, Oregon that it says will be capable of churning out more than 10,000 robots a year when fully operational.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
At today’s Delivering the Future event, Amazon announced that it will begin testing Agility’s bipedal robot Digit in its facilities.
Amazon Robotics Chief Technologist Tye Brady said the testing is in its “very, very early stages,” adding, “We’re taking a lot of care to understand it better and see if there’s a fit for our processes.”
Reading between the lines here, there’s no guarantee that Amazon will actually begin deploying Digit to its warehouse facilities, which currently utilize north of 750,000 robot systems.
“Digit can move, grasp, and handle items in spaces and corners of warehouses in novel ways,” Amazon writes.
“Its size and shape are well suited for buildings that are designed for humans, and we believe that there is a big opportunity to scale a mobile manipulator solution, such as Digit, which can work collaboratively with employees.
In September, the company announced that it is ramping up production in a serious way with the addition of RoboFab, a factory located in Salem, Oregon that it says will be capable of churning out more than 10,000 robots a year when fully operational.
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