The most interesting thing in tech: Digit, a humanoid robot from Agility that runs on its own—not with an operator behind the scenes. It seems like it has four grandparents: a human, a dog, a velociraptor, and a roomba with GPT-4. I did a demo with it this morning at #websummit2024. Here's how it works, why some of the design choices were made, and how companies might fit it into their factories.

Of course, in addition to announcing Schaeffler as our newest customer. Digit and Peggy Johnson took to the main stage at Web Summit to sort more laundry. We are still focused on bulk material handling for manufacturing, logistics, distribution, and warehousing. Sorting laundry is just a nice, relatable task for these big events. It's also a great way to show off the work we are doing with natural language commands and VLMs for robot control.

🤖 📢 Today, we are excited to share that global juggernaut Schaeffler has joined the Agility ecosystem as a new customer and strategic investor.

Ever wonder how to train a humanoid robot? This is a must-read overview of our work with model-based and learned controllers. Pras Velagapudi also gives insight into how we use powerful tools like Isaac Lab from NVIDIA to bridge the Sim2Real gap.

For fun, we asked Digit to "Put the Reese's in the bucket". Using our VLM stack, Digit autonomously scanned the table to find and pick the right candy. If you are missing a king-sized bar tonight, then you know what happened.

Making the cover of TIME is a pretty exciting achievement. Digit may be front and center, but it's everyone in the Agility family that deserves the credit. Join us in thanking our current and past employees, their families, our partners, supporters, and customers. Our people crush it every single day, and the best is yet to come! 🚀 🚀 🚀

TIME's new cover: Introducing the Best Inventions of 2024 https://ti.me/40jkXvI

Adding cover model to Digit's list of skills.

A maker of humanoid robots argues that the machines aren’t replacing workers, but are freeing workers to do higher-skilled jobs.

This week Peggy Johnson and Digit took center stage at The Wall Street Journal Tech Live conference. Peggy gave voice commands to Digit like "Put the Tech Things shirt into the basket". Digit then used a VLM to scan the table and find the right item, autonomously putting it in the laundry basket. Thanks to our host Joanna Stern for an authentic and enjoyable Tech Things segment.