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- On the job. Before taking a job as the CEO of Agility Robotics, Peggy Johnson had never worked in the robotics field—and definitely not with Agility's particular brand of robot, a humanoid named Digit that walks on two legs and moves boxes in warehouses.
But Johnson, the former CEO of Magic Leap and an ex-executive vice president of business development for Microsoft, had kept her eye on the emerging industry over her career in tech. And she was familiar with what it took to manufacture hardware, from Magic Leap's VR headsets to mobile phones during her decades at Qualcomm. "People say hardware is hard," she says. "And it is—it's very complex. It's not like cloud software; it's something altogether different."
