Jonathan Hurst, PhD robotics (2008), co-founded Agility Robotics. Their Digit humanoid operates in Amazon warehouses; Digit V5 achieves safety certification to work cage-free. He teaches at Oregon State, runs a large robotics grad program, and frames robotics as the next productivity driver for GDP amid labor shortages.
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Agility's Digit V5 is the first balancing humanoid certified to operate without safety cages (stepping out of work cells), unlocking massive warehouse deployment; with 20+ hour daily operation, 5-year lifespan, and falling BOM, the robot economics approach $1/hour vs $20-40 human labor, supporting both capex and RaaS models with inelastic pricing power tied to human wage rates.