Agility and Oregon State publish GoTo controller for short-range Digit walking - 2025-08-16 - Research Publication - A constellation-based reward couples translation and rotation, with benchmarks measuring energy, time to target and footstep count. Physical Digit v3 tests covered 72 short-range navigation tasks; the study reported a… - source: arxiv.org
PreCi study demonstrates original Digit locomotion on challenging terrain - 2025-04-14 - Research Publication - Hardware experiments reached 1.5 m/s forward walking and tested slippery surfaces, slopes, uneven ground and sand. Model-assumption-based regularization preserves useful model-based behavior while allowing the learned… - source: arxiv.org
HT-2 study demonstrates original Digit walking over challenging terrain - 2024-10-04 - Research Publication - A single controller traversed more than four miles across five Berkeley-area hikes and steep streets in San Francisco. The controller uses proprioceptive history without vision, after flat-ground pre-training and… - source: arxiv.org
System-identification study improves original Digit model tracking - 2024-08-16 - Research Publication - Iterative least squares estimates motor inertia and joint friction from measured data for robots with closed kinematic chains. Physical tracking tests compared the identified parameters with manufacturer defaults; the team… - source: arxiv.org
Next-token study transfers locomotion control to original Digit hardware - 2024-02-29 - Research Publication - The model used simulated trajectories from learned and model-based controllers, plus retargeted motion-capture and human-video data. A model trained on 27 hours of walking data transferred to physical Digit without… - source: arxiv.org
Safe whole-body controller study validates original Digit hardware - 2023-10-12 - Research Publication - The controller coordinates body, torso and arm tasks while constraining joint motion, balance and contact forces. Simulation and hardware experiments covered squatting, bowing, arm-height limits, walking and… - source: arxiv.org
Reinforcement-learning study transfers robust walking to original Digit - 2021-03-29 - Research Publication - The framework uses reduced policy inputs and outputs, with hardware-feasible starting poses to support transfer from simulation. Hardware tests maintained walking under external pushes and on terrain absent from training… - source: arxiv.org
Agility Robotics launches original Digit for commercial sale - 2020-01-06 - Product Launch - Ford and Agility planned further research into indoor logistics and last-50-feet delivery, including communication between vehicles and the robot. The commercial design added upgraded feet, navigation sensors and customer-ready… - source: webwire.com
Agility Robotics partners with Ford on last-mile delivery research - 2019-05-22 - Partnership - The concept assigns longer road journeys to vehicles and sidewalks, grass and stairs to a walking robot. Agility would draw on Ford’s mapping and object-recognition research; a delivery test program using commercial Digit robots… - source: agilityrobotics.com
Agility Robotics unveils original Digit bipedal robot - 2019-02-19 - Product Launch - Four-degree-of-freedom arms are designed for object handling, balance and recovery; the company described tests carrying boxes up to 18 kg. Pricing was to be announced later in 2019, with deliveries planned for the first quarter… - source: agilityrobotics.com