Digit

Digit is a teal bipedal robot with long arms, a spherical head with glowing eyes, and many sensors and cameras visible in it's neck. It is holding one arm out to the side. The Agility Robotics logo is on its chest.
Digit's arms are designed to help with mobility and balance. Photo: Agility Robotics

Digit is a humanoid robot with a unique leg design that helps it move in a more dynamic fashion than regular humanoid robots do. It has nimble limbs and a torso packed with sensors and computers that will allow it to navigate complex environments and carry out useful tasks in warehouses and other environments.

Creator

Agility Robotics

Year
2019
Country
United States 🇺🇸
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Digit is a direct descendant of Cassie, Agility's first robot, but Digit has a torso with sensors and a pair of arms.

Two bipedal Digit robots move yellow bins in an Amazon factory setting.
Amazon is testing Digit at its robotic research and development warehouse. Photo: Agility Robotics
A full length view of Digit shows a teal, silver and black bipedal robot with jointed legs.
Who you calling "ostrich legs"? Photo: Agility Robotics

History

Founded in 2015, Agility Robotics develops highly capable bipedal robots for logistics and research applications. The company's goal is to build legged machines that can go anywhere a person can go. Its first robot, released in 2016, is a bipedal platform called Cassie, a dynamic walking robot that could traverse rough terrain and step over obstacles. Unveiled in 2019, Digit is Agility's second robot. Its legs are similar to Cassie's, but Digit is equipped with a torso full of sensors as well as a pair of arms, used for balance, mobility, and manipulation. Agility is working to bring Digit into factories, doing useful repetitive tasks so that humans can focus on more interesting things. A robot factory in Oregon will be able to produce 10,000 Digits per year to keep up with demand.

Two human men in casual clothes stand with a Digit humanoid robot that is almost their height.
At 5'9, Digit is close in height to Agility president Damion Shelton [left] and chief robot officer Jonathan Hurst. Photo: Evan Ackerman
A blue-green bipedal robot with arms, cameras and sensors built into it's torso and a lidar "head".
Spot the differences between the current version and this first version of Digit! Photo: Dan Saelinger

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Cassie, a legged robot and Digit, a bipedal humanoid robot that share similar aesthetic appearance are posed together.
Real-life droids. Photo: Dan Saelinger
A lanky bi-pedal humanoid walks on a suburban sidewalk while carrying a package.
Early versions of Digit explored package delivery. Photo: Dan Saelinger

Specs

Overview

Legged mobility with perception and arms; can get up off the ground, lift boxes, go outdoors and in human environments; can map environments. Can carry up to 16 kg.

Status

Ongoing

Year

2019

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Height
175 cm
Length
20 cm
Weight
65 kg
Sensors

Lidar, four Intel RealSense depth cameras, MEMS IMU, absolute and incremental encoders for proprioception.

Actuators

Brushless DC motors, with custom-designed transmissions

Degrees of Freedom (DoF)
16 (Legs: 5 DoF x 2; Arms: 3 DoF x 2)
Materials

Aluminum; thermoformed polycarbonate variants; carbon fiber composite components.

Compute

Two Intel i7 multi-thread CPUs, payload bay for customer-added computer such as Intel NUC or Nvidia Jetson for additional perception or machine learning capabilities.

Software

Linux-based real-time operating system for main control computer, high-level planning and perception handled on secondary computer.

Power

Custom 1.2-kWh lithium-polymer battery pack