Cassie Context

Market context

Cassie is Agility Robotics' first commercial bipedal robot platform, derived from ATRIAS research and used for R&D before Digit.

  • Target environment: Academic labs, industrial R&D sites, locomotion research programs and robot-learning environments.
  • Workflow context: Bipedal locomotion research, controller development, robot learning, mobility validation and platform experimentation.
  • Customer context: Researchers, universities and industrial R&D teams studying legged robot mobility.
  • Deployment model: Commercial research-platform model used before Agility's warehouse-focused Digit product.
  • Commercial maturity: Established research and development platform.
  • Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on research goals, support, simulation tools and platform availability.
  • Market position: Bridge product between university bipedal locomotion research and deployable Agility Robotics systems.
  • Adjacent products: ATRIAS, Digit, Unitree H1, Boston Dynamics Atlas

Specifications

  • Weight: ≈31 kg
  • Walking Speed Kmh: Walking speed: 5 km/h using an initial controller — Cassie
  • actuation and motion control: Electrically actuated legs with compliant elements
  • Degrees Of Freedom: 10 (5 per leg)
  • Payload capacity: ≈0 kg (locomotion platform)
  • Operating Environment: outdoor_unstructured; indoor_structured
  • Mobility Class: biped
  • Commercial Status: pilot
  • Height: ≈100 cm (legged height, no torso)
  • Architecture: Stabilization: Dynamic balancing (no static stability requirement)
  • Runtime: ≈1–2 h (battery dependent)

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