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Agility’s new humanoid robot will stop, squat to avoid harming human coworkers — News Report

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BNewsO LIVE DESK · Updated 16/09/2026, 11:35 AM EST

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Dateline: Washington, D.C. | Updated: 16/09/2026, 11:35 AM EST

Agility’s new humanoid robot will stop, squat to avoid harming human coworkers — News Report

Agility’s new humanoid robot will stop, squat to avoid harming human coworkersBNewsO Report — Agility’s new humanoid robot will stop, squat to avoid harming human coworkers
Md. Jahidul Islam

Md. Jahidul Islam

CEO & Editor-in-Chief, BNewsO

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Agility Robotics has introduced an advanced safety system for its Digit humanoid robot, enabling the machine to yield, lower its center of gravity, and squat when human workers enter its proximity. The capability allows full operation outside traditional physical safety cages, marking a significant milestone for industrial automation and supply chain logistics worldwide.

For decades, high-speed industrial machinery operated strictly within physical steel enclosures or behind optical light curtains to prevent catastrophic collisions with human workers. Agility’s updated control architecture integrates real-time LiDAR sensors, multi-angle depth cameras, and dynamic balance algorithms that detect human movement within milliseconds. Rather than triggering an abrupt emergency stop that could drop payloads or damage sensitive mechanical joints, Digit proactively crouches, lowers its center of gravity, and absorbs kinetic energy

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