too. Jonathan Hurst: Our goal with Digit is to have a robot as a mobility platform that can be in human spaces, go where people go, and work with people. And there are so many applications where ...

In spite of the well-funded and luminary-studded list of rivals for leadership in autonomous humanoid robots, Johnson is confident in Agility Robotics’ ability to win. It helps that Digit is ...

Figure therefore joins Agility Robotics’ robot, Digit, as two of the only humanoid robotics companies on the planet to be putting their robots to work in paying clients’ warehouses and factories.

It said it was testing a new robot called Digit, which has arms and legs and can move, grasp and handle items in a similar fashion to a human. A union said Amazon had "been treating their workers ...