Oregon State University

Oregon State University's CoRIS Institute developed the Cassie bipedal robot, whose lineage directly gave rise to Agility Robotics and the Digit humanoid platform.

The Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CoRIS) Institute at Oregon State University has been a leading site for legged locomotion research, with a particular focus on energy-efficient bipedal gaits inspired by human biomechanics. The Cassie robot, developed at OSU, became one of the most studied dynamic walking platforms in the world and served as the direct technological ancestor of Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid. OSU researchers have contributed widely to reinforcement-learning-based locomotion controllers that are now used across the humanoid industry. The university's work exemplifies how fundamental academic research translates into commercially viable humanoid products.

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