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Digit the robot joined #BrainstormTech live on stage in Park City, Utah. Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson explained the reasoning behind Digit’s “backward” legs: “Knees get in the way of picking things up." Now, Digit is putting its backward-knees design, ten years in the making, to good use: The droid recently got hired at its first real job—picking up totes at a Spanx facility in Connecticut and putting them onto conveyors. The work is part of a multi-year deal with logistics provider GXO Logistics, Inc., and Johnson said the company is already getting monthly revenue from the robot-as-a-service project. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eR_T_prC