In a controlled for environment like a warehouse, why bother with the added complexity of bipeds vs 3 wheels. You just need a robot that can roll, raise up, and hands that can manipulate various types of stock.

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At today’s Delivering the Future event, Amazon announced that it will be 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 take a lot 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.

Last April, the retail giant announced a $1 billion ‘Industrial Innovation’ fund.

Agility is one of a number of startups building bipedal/humanoid robots for warehouse work.

In September, the company announced that it is ramping up production in a serious way with the addition or Robohub, 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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