Agility Robotics, based in Salem, Oregon, has revealed an expanded range of features for its humanoid robot Digit, aiming to broaden the robot’s market applications in logistics and manufacturing. The ...

SALEM, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Agility Robotics, creator of the humanoid robot Digit, has unveiled new capabilities and advancements that expand the work Digit is able to perform for Agility’s growing ...

CORVALLIS, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Agility Robotics is excited to unveil the next generation of Digit, the first human-centric, multi-purpose robot made for logistics work. Digit is designed from the ...

Agility Robotics is not without competition. Companies like Boston Dynamics with its Atlas robot, Tesla’s Optimus, and Figure AI’s Figure 01 are also developing humanoid robots with autonomous ...

SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son has long predicted a future where robots would outnumber people and take over many jobs from humans.

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Think of actuators as the robot’s muscles —the technology that enables humanoids to move. Actuators come in three types: ...

Though Atlas was designed to resemble a person in other ways, its hands aren’t exactly one-to-one. Instead, company engineers ...

Humanity has been concerned about the coming robot takeover for some time now. Sci-fi writers such as Isaac Asimov helped stoke the fire with their tales of a world overrun by synthetic humanoids, and ...