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Agility Robotics’ new CEO is ‘focused on the here and now’


There was nothing else like Digit on the ProMat floor last year. The manufacturing supply chain event has gradually morphed into a tech show in recent

Many of the biggest names in the space were present, showcasing autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), bin picking arms and automated storage and retrieval systems. The demos captured something fundamental about the industrial robotics sector, as highly complex and technically impressive bots repeated the same dull activity over and over — in this case, moving totes back and forth between a wall and conveyor belt. During our conversation, Shelton mentioned Digit’s ability to traverse uneven terrain, adding, “I would love for us to, at some point, get back to things like last-mile delivery.” For the time being, however, warehouse work is very much the robot’s focus.

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