“Um, what the hell is that?”
“Just smile and don’t look it in the eyes, dear.”
“It doesn’t even have a head, mom.”

This is a video of the result of a recent collaboration between Ford and Agility Robotics (the maker of those legs-only ‘Cassie’ robots we’ve seen previously) starring Digit, a new headless humanoid robot that can deliver packages right to your door after being driven there by an autonomous Ford van. I DON’T WANT THEM KNOWING WHERE I LIVE. Also, why does it need to look like a headless person? Why does it need to look like a person at all? There’s no way this thing is practical or efficient. Just make it look like a little tank. Or just let the regular delivery person punt it to my front door like a game winning field goal like they normally do. Digit can allegedly carry up to 40-pound boxes with its little nub hands and definitely won’t be mistaken for a stripper-gram. Me? I’m constantly being mistaken for a stripper-gram. “You’re wearing a neck tie and no shirt.” Oh I’m sorry, but *puts hands behind head, dance-thrusts towards wall calendar* is it not casual Friday? “I mean it is, but you wear that every day.” Haha, yeah, but it’s appropriate today. I mean it’s totally not, but it is RELATIVELY.

Keep going for the video.

Source: Geekologie – A Headless Humanoid Delivery Robot Driven To Your Home By An Autonomous Car