Forbes Tech Contributor Martine Paris with Agility Robotics industrial robot Digit at a press salon in San Francisco, May 13, 2026.
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Digit and I stood quietly on the side of the candlelit room. It was an industrial-sized bi-pedal robot, made for warehouse work. It didn’t talk, but can be enabled to, I was told. Weighing in at around 220 pounds, its eyes dotted around the room as its legs dangled in suspension. There was an E-stop button in back in the unlikely event it were to go rogue.
Neither of us ate as the press started to fill in. We were at a bougie pizzeria in the shiny East Cut neighborhood of San Francisco, across the bridge from the Musk v Altman trial from where some of the media were coming.
It was exciting to see San Francisco back in all its glory, with its speedy Muni cars zipping dreamers and builders from event to event. A future-facing city drawing ambitious people with a passion for vibe-coding agents, free-wheeling Waymos and oversharing chatbots. The town was alive with activity.
