Digit: The Bipedal Humanoid Robot
Description
Digit, the world’s first human-centric robot designed to work reliably and safely with people, works in existing spaces without needing costly retrofitting to help with tote movement and manipulation applications. The bipedal robot includes an upper torso, arms, and sensors. Its four degree-of-freedom (4-DOF) arms extend mobility and utility for moving through complex, human-oriented environments for tasks such as curb-to-doorstep delivery.
Digit is strong enough to pick up and stack boxes weighing up to 40 lb. (18 kg), as well as durable enough to catch itself during a fall using its arms to decelerate. In addition, Digit features advanced behaviors such as stair climbing and footstep planning, all controlled through an API that can be accessed both onboard the robot and via a wireless link. The torso houses two multi-core CPUs and a modular payload bay allows a third computer—in a variety of form factors—to support additional perception and reinforcement learning capabilities.
Out-of-the-box, Digit will be up and walking within five minutes, even for users who are not legged locomotion control researchers.
Specs
- Standing Height: 5.2 ft (158 cm)
- Width: 1.7 ft (52 cm)
- Weight: 99.2 lb. (45 kg)
- Max speed: 4.9 ft/s (1.5 m/s)
- Battery capacity: 1,000 W/hr
- Light duty run time: 3 hours
- Heavy duty run time: 1.5 hours
Movement Abilities:
- Walking
- Forward
- Backward
- Side-to-side
- Turn in place
- Crouching walk
- Up and down inclines
- Across unstructured terrain (grass, rocks, curbs)
- Pauses when it perceives a person/barrier in its path and navigates around
- Crouch/squat
- Rotates upper body to “gaze” and look in different directions
- Uses arms, hands, and feet to balance when bumped
- Able to pick up and put down objects of varying size and weight
- Step up and down from curbs