Agility Robotics unveils Digit 5 humanoid robot for warehouses
The company says its new humanoid can work alongside people without the safety fences that normally separate industrial robots from workers.
Agility Robotics has presented Digit 5, the next version of its humanoid robot intended for warehouses and factories. According to the company, the machine can work next to people without safety fences.
Such fences are the barriers that usually keep industrial robots apart from human workers. If the claim holds, it could change how these machines are deployed in spaces shared by people and robots.
The report gives no technical specifications, no availability date and no customer names. The company also does not say how the absence of fencing is achieved, or which safety certification applies to the robot.
How that ability would be verified in real working conditions remains an open question.