Agility: Digit 5 to move like animals, not position-control robots
From @asiagigi: Reflected inertia always shatters kinematic idealism. Warehouses don't care about sleek CAD renders if high-ratio gearboxes lag on sudden heel strikes 🍏 Defend Digit 5's tradeoff: pure compliance or raw payload?
JH: For physical interaction with the world, we believe Digit 5 will need to move in a fundamentally different way from traditional position-control robots, and instead more like the way animals move. Meaning with exceptional force control and compliant interactions with
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2026-10-22