{"id":117917,"date":"2021-01-01T05:23:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T13:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/meet-digit-a-smart-little-robot-that-could-change-the-way-self-driving-cars-make-deliveries"},"modified":"2021-01-01T05:23:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T13:23:52","slug":"meet-digit-a-smart-little-robot-that-could-change-the-way-self-driving-cars-make-deliveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/meet-digit-a-smart-little-robot-that-could-change-the-way-self-driving-cars-make-deliveries","title":{"rendered":"Meet Digit: A Smart Little Robot That Could Change the Way Self-Driving Cars Make Deliveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-digit-a-smart-little-robot-that-could-change-the-way-self-driving-cars-make-deliveries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ford partnered with Agility Robotics to create a two-legged delivery robot called Digit. It\u2019s easy to see why. One-click shopping and perks like two-day delivery are extremely convenient, but they are taking a toll on our cities and neighborhoods. The U.S. Postal Service alone delivered more than 6 billion packages in 2018, or double the volume it was handling about 10 years ago. To help address this issue, Ford is teaming up with Agility Robotics to explore a brand-new frontier in the world of autonomy \u2014 and a new way of thinking about how we make deliveries. Together, we will work toward making sure self-driving vehicles are uniquely outfitted to accomplish something that\u2019s proven surprisingly difficult to do: Carry out that final step of getting your delivery from the car to your door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford partnered with Agility Robotics to create a two-legged delivery robot called Digit. It\u2019s easy to see why. One-click shopping and perks like two-day delivery are extremely convenient, but they are taking a toll on our cities and neighborhoods. The U.S. Postal Service alone delivered more than 6 billion packages in 2018, or double the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}