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Sharon Goldman

Agility Robotics’ humanoid robot has its first real job—at a Spanx factory

Peggy Johnson Agility Robotics Spanx Fortune Digit Jason Del Rey Stuart Isett

(Credit: Stuart Isett/Fortune)

Digit, the flagship robot at Oregon-based Agility Robotics, raised its hand to wave at the audience at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech in Park City, Utah, as CEO Peggy Johnson explained to the crowd why the robot’s knees were, well, backward—like bird legs.

“Knees get in the way of picking things up,” she explained to Fortune tech reporter Jason Del Rey, pointing out that Digit was designed to work in big warehouses, lifting things up and putting things down.

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