{"id":"f34c0007-2c91-4722-a744-56b32f67fb11","slug":"agility-digit-promat-collapse-2023","kind":"malfunction","headline":"Agility Digit collapsed mid-pick during a live ProMat 2023 warehouse demo","summary":"At ProMat 2023 (Chicago, Mar 20-23 2023), after more than 20 hours of live demonstrations, an Agility Digit stopped mid-pick and fell. Agility attributed it to a previously-unseen arm encoder bug and subsequently patched the behavior so the arm freezes and the robot stays upright rather than falling. No injury or third-party damage. Bar note: a documented demo malfunction (not an operational deployment injury), included for its named root cause and shipped vendor remediation. 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