Facts

• Company: Agility Robotics
• Product type: Research Platform
• Status: legacy
• Capability focus: Bipedal Locomotion Research
• Website: https://films.oregonstate.edu/atrias

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Sources

Summary

ATRIAS is Agility Robotics early bipedal research platform. It was built to study dynamic walking, running and balance, helping establish concepts later used across Agility legged robots.

Overview

ATRIAS is Agility Robotics early bipedal research platform. It was built to study dynamic walking, running and balance, helping establish concepts later used across Agility legged robots.

Market context

ATRIAS is the bipedal research platform behind key dynamic walking work that preceded Cassie and Digit.

• Target environment: University labs, locomotion research environments and robotics history/context pages.
• Workflow context: Dynamic walking research, legged locomotion validation, control research and bipedal robot development.
• Customer context: Researchers and readers tracking the technical lineage behind Agility Robotics platforms.
• Deployment model: Research-platform model rather than a current commercial robot.
• Commercial maturity: Historical research platform with strong technical relevance.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption is historical; relevance depends on locomotion lineage and research context.
• Market position: Foundational bipedal locomotion platform connected to later Agility Robotics products.
• Adjacent products: Cassie, Digit, Oregon State Dynamic Robotics Lab work

Audience

Researchers

Workflow

Dynamic walking research, legged locomotion validation, control research and bipedal robot development.

Capability

bipedal locomotion research

Deployment environment

University labs, locomotion research environments and robotics history/context pages.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Researchers
• Workflow: Dynamic walking research, legged locomotion validation, control research and bipedal robot development.
• Capability: bipedal locomotion research
• Deployment environment: University labs, locomotion research environments and robotics history/context pages.

Specifications

• Height: ~1.5 m m
• Weight: ~65 kg kg
• Actuation: Series elastic actuation (legged locomotion research focus)
• Operating Environment: indoor_structured
• Mobility Class: biped
• Commercial Status: research_platform
• Platform Type: research_platform
• Deployment Model: research
• Platform Role: legacy_bipedal_locomotion_platform
• Degrees Of Freedom: ~10–12 (varies by revision)
• Power Source: Tethered / offboard (primarily lab use)

Tags

• Capability: Bipedal locomotion
• Commercial Stage: Research platform

Timeline / Research

• 2018-09-28 - Research Publication - Deep-RL policy-transfer paper reports hardware results on ATRIAS - The paper studies whether deep reinforcement-learning policies can transfer from simulation to hardware when embedde…
• 2017-09-18 - Research Publication - Bayesian-optimization study tunes walking controllers on ATRIAS hardware - The paper applies Bayesian optimization with a domain-informed feature transform to bipedal locomotion contr…