Meet the Robutt: the robotic butt Ford uses to test its car seats

Ford has built itself a mechanical butt, dubbed the Robutt, which it uses to test its car seats.As seen via Quartz, the carmaker explains in a video how it covers its seats with a pressure sensitive mat to help understand how people get in an out of vehicles. Using this information they can adjust the seat to make sure it’ll stay comfortable over its lifetime. And to test this, they deploy the Robutt — a stuffed torso fixed on the end of an industrial robotic arm which “sits&rd