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.
