--- title: Biometric Voting Technology Cuts Fraud, Tests Trust description: Agility Robotics' founder describes designing Digit 5, the company's largest and heaviest humanoid robot yet. Weighing over 120 kg, it can lift 23-kg bins to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/biometric-voting-technology-cuts-fraud-tests-trust-qrl6nman6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Biometric Voting Technology Cuts Fraud, Tests Trust | daily.dev og:description: Agility Robotics' founder describes designing Digit 5, the company's largest and heaviest humanoid robot yet. Weighing over 120 kg, it can lift 23-kg bins to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/biometric-voting-technology-cuts-fraud-tests-trust-qrl6nman6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Qrl6NmAn6.png og:image:alt: Biometric Voting Technology Cuts Fraud, Tests Trust og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Biometric Voting Technology Cuts Fraud, Tests Trust **[IEEE Spectrum](https://daily.dev/sources/ieeespectrum)** · 16 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Agility Robotics' founder describes designing Digit 5, the company's largest and heaviest humanoid robot yet. Weighing over 120 kg, it can lift 23-kg bins to shelves 1.75 meters high and work 20 hours a day. When a person approaches, Digit 5 stops, sets down its payload, sits on the floor, and cuts motor power as a safety measure. Its charging dock delivers 240 amperes at 48 volts, giving 90 minutes of runtime per 9-minute charge. The robot swaps its earlier ostrichlike legs for humanlike ones because squatting caused the old ankle design to strike the ground, and it can no longer run or jump like previous versions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How much weight can Agility Robotics' Digit 5 humanoid robot lift and for how long can it work? Digit 5 is designed to repeatedly lift 23-kg bins to shelves 1.75 meters high, meeting U.S. NIOSH lifting guidelines for human workers. It can operate for 20 hours a day, running for 90 minutes per charge and fully recharging in a 9-minute break at a dock delivering 240 amperes at 48 volts, weighing over 120 kg total. _Tracking humanoid robot capabilities for warehouse automation decisions is easier with daily.dev's coverage of robotics milestones._ ### How does Digit 5 stay safe when working near humans without safety cages? When Digit 5 detects an approaching person, it stops its current task, sets down its payload, sits on the floor, and cuts power to its motors before the person can touch it. This conservative, verifiable approach was developed over two years specifically so the robot could work without the physical barriers earlier Digit versions required for insurance and regulatory compliance. _Engineers evaluating robot safety architectures can follow daily.dev for deeper technical breakdowns like this one._ ### Why did Agility Robotics switch Digit's legs from an ostrichlike design to humanlike legs? The ostrichlike 'backward' leg configuration, while optimized for walking and running, caused the robot's ankle to strike the ground during squatting. Since Digit 5 spends significant time lifting heavy objects from near the floor, Agility switched to a humanlike leg configuration where both knee and hip motors contribute torque to help the robot stand back up. _Developers curious about design trade-offs in legged robots can track this engineering debate on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Will Fiber-optic Cables Finally Get Made in Orbit? 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