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The Robot I Didn’t Expect to Build

Agility Robotics , the company I cofounded out of my robotics lab at Oregon State University in 2015, has just launched Digit 5 . It’s designed to be the first humanoid robot that can safely and economically do useful work at scale, allowing us to bring tens of thousands of humanoid workers into th…

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  1. 2026-10-19 13:00 · IEEE Spectrum Robotics
    The Robot I Didn’t Expect to Build

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