Agility: safety was hardest challenge for Digit deployment

First question comes from Robot-Magazine on LinkedIn: What engineering challenge has been the hardest to solve as Digit moves from development to real world work?

JH: The biggest thing that surprised Agility was safety. When Agility ran into that, it was a hard blocker to deploy robots until it was solved. Agility had to design an entire system-level safety strategy that cuts through every single aspect of the robot and the process. Making a 129 kg dynamically stable robot safe around people will touch

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