Agility Robotics, ANYbotics, Boston Dynamics, Clearpath Robotics, Open Robotics and Unitree pledged not to support the weaponization of their products and are calling for others in the industry to do the same.

Cassie, a bipedal robot developed at Oregon State University, recently ran 100 meters in 24.73 seconds at OSU’s Whyte Track and Field Center. 

Agility Robotics co-founders Jonathan Hurst and Damion Shelton will discuss how they’re developing Digit to perform real-world tasks.

Listen to Steve and Mike interview Agility Robotics co-founder and CEO, Damion Shelton. They also discuss the new US Alliance of Robotics Clusters.

DCVC and Playground Global led the funding round, which also included participation from the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund (AIIF). 

Cassie completed the 5K at the Oregon State University campus in just over 53 minutes on a single battery charge.

RBR50 company Agility Robotics, a leading developer of bipedal robots, has raised $20 million in Series A funding. The funding will help the Albany, Ore.-based company to scale its operation and production of the Digit humanoid, which started shipping to customers in July 2020. The Series A was co-led by DCVC and Playground Global and…

In this episode of The Robot Report Podcast, we talk to Jonathan Hurst, Co-Founder and CTO of Agility Robotics, which is developing legged robots. We discuss how passive dynamics has steered the direction of Agility’s robots, the role of simulation and reinforcement learning, the fourth version of Digit currently being developed, comparisons to Boston Dynamics, and much more.

In this episode of The Robot Report Podcast, we talk to Jonathan Hurst, Co-Founder and CTO of Agility Robotics, which is developing legged robots. We discuss how passive dynamics has steered the direction of Agility’s robots, the role of simulation and reinforcement learning, the fourth version of Digit currently being developed, comparisons to Boston Dynamics, and much more.

2019 was an important year for legged robots as Boston Dynamics started leasing its Spot quadruped. The turn of the decade is continuing the momentum of legged robots as Agility Robotics is now selling its Digit humanoid for commercial use. Agility Robotics is on the third version of Digit, which was first introduced February 2019.…