The demand for Agility Robotics’s humanoid walking robot ‘Digit’ has increased after the company started conducting tests of its finished prototype around Albany, Oregon. The battery-powered, weatherproof, bipedal robot can deliver packages and maneuver through urban and natural environments.
Digit can lift 40-pound (18 kg) packages and can withstand. This year, Agility plans to build 40 robots, each costing $250,000. The company hopes to lower the price to $70,000 eventually. Agility Robotics sold the first two prototypes to Ford Motor Company, an investor in the company, and several other Fortune 100 companies that will use the robot for warehouse automation.
