Why build a robot with legs?
In Science Robotics, our co-founder and Chief Robot Officer Jonathan Hurst explains the humanoid form from first principles: legs can step to catch a disturbance, an upright torso keeps the footprint narrow, and arms at the shoulders reach from the floor to the top shelf.
Copy the shape without the physics, and the robot looks convincing right up until an unexpected step down.
Read the author’s version: https://lnkd.in/gwhbHKw2
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Why this matters for talent
A product philosophy post on why legged robots matter is thought leadership rather than news, but it reflects continued R&D investment in locomotion, which is the hardest and most talent constrained part of humanoid robotics. Agility Robotics has 75 open roles, concentrated in controls and mechanical engineering disciplines this kind of post speaks to.
Read the original LinkedIn post. Curated by Larry Sherwood Jr. from company announcements; analysis above is my own.