Agility and FORT Robotics Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance Humanoid Robot Safety
PR Newswire•01/10/2026•07:00 ET
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Key Highlights
- ➤Agility and FORT Robotics sign memorandum of understanding for Digit 5 safety
- ➤Offboard Safety Bridge extends Digit 5’s safety architecture to external safety systems
- ➤Digit 5 will include safety pendant, on-robot communications, and off-robot interfaces
- ➤Digit predecessors logged more than 65,000 hours of operation at customer sites
- ➤FORT Robotics pursues Nasdaq listing through business combination with Newbury Street II (NTWO)
Expert Statements
Pras Velagapudi, CTO at Agility Robotics
“Every layer we've added with FORT has made Digit's safety system more resilient, not just more redundant”
Pras Velagapudi, CTO at Agility Robotics
“The Offboard Safety Bridge is a good example of what this partnership is really about: building safety infrastructure that works whether the input is coming from onboard the robot, or from the environment around it, so the robot can be trusted to operate near people in a more diverse set of environments.”
Samuel Reeves, Founder and CEO of FORT Robotics
“Agility has established itself as the leader in humanoid robotics by focusing on the only metrics that matter: safety and ROI”
Samuel Reeves, Founder and CEO of FORT Robotics
“Physical AI only earns trust when the safety layer around it is as capable and as accountable as the robot itself. Formalizing this as a strategic partnership reflects how central that architecture has become to getting humanoid robots to work safely in close proximity with people.”
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New Offboard Safety Bridge Extends Agility and FORT's Safety Architecture to Digit 5
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