{"event":{"id":"evt-agility-fort-digit5-safety-partnership-20261001","dedupe_key":"robotics_safety_partnership:2026-10-01:agility-and-fort-extend-external-safety-architecture-for-digit-5","event_type":"robotics_safety_partnership","title":"Agility and FORT extend external safety architecture for Digit 5","summary":"Agility Robotics and FORT Robotics signed an MOU for Digit 5 safety infrastructure spanning a safety pendant, on-robot communications and off-robot interfaces to external safety systems. External physical safety enforcement predates this event, so the MOU is treated as strengthening evidence rather than a relation onset.","occurred_at":"2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z","published_at":"2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z","observed_at":"2026-10-03T06:33:00.000Z","reconstructed_at":null,"ingest_type":"live_world_scan","locations":["United States"],"status":"verified","confidence":0.98,"metadata":{"actors":["Agility Robotics","FORT Robotics"],"change_kind":"embodied_external_safety_strengthening","deployment_status":"Digit 5 remains in development; announcement does not establish completed certification or broad production deployment.","temporal_note":"FORT documented outside-in external robot safety by June 22, 2026; the Oct. 1 event is evidence of continuation and strengthening, not origin."},"created_at":"2026-10-03T07:37:02.677Z","updated_at":"2026-10-03T07:37:02.677Z"},"artifacts":[{"id":"art-agility-fort-digit5-mou-20261001","canonical_url":"https://www.agilityrobotics.com/content/agility-and-fort-robotics-announce-strategic-partnership-to-advance-humanoid-robot-safety","artifact_type":"press_release","title":"Agility and FORT announce Digit 5 safety partnership","summary":"Agility Robotics and FORT Robotics signed an MOU to deepen Digit 5 safety infrastructure across a safety pendant, on-robot communications and off-robot interfaces connecting Digit to external safety systems. The announcement describes planned architecture, not completed Digit 5 certification or broad deployment.","creator_entities":["Agility Robotics","FORT Robotics"],"released_at":"2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z","content_hash":null,"metadata":{"source_scope":"evidence_triage_20261003"},"created_at":"2026-10-03T07:37:02.675Z","updated_at":"2026-10-03T07:37:02.675Z","relation":"documented_by"},{"id":"art-fort-outside-in-safety-20260622","canonical_url":"https://www.fortrobotics.com/news/outside-in-safety-with-nvidia-halos-for-robotics","artifact_type":"press_release","title":"FORT Outside-In Safety with NVIDIA Halos for Robotics","summary":"FORT described external infrastructure sensors and visual AI agents feeding safety-certifiable control around autonomous robots, providing prior evidence that external physical safety enforcement predates the Oct. 1 Digit 5 partnership.","creator_entities":["FORT Robotics","NVIDIA"],"released_at":"2026-06-22T00:00:00.000Z","content_hash":null,"metadata":{"source_scope":"temporal_provenance_context"},"created_at":"2026-10-03T07:37:02.676Z","updated_at":"2026-10-03T07:37:02.676Z","relation":"contextual_precedent"}],"signals":[{"id":"sig-agent-safety-fullstack-20260930","statement":"Agent safety is expanding from model behavior into runtime, hardware, identity and tool-access controls.","signal_type":"stack_expansion","direction":"accelerating","confidence":0.96,"epistemic_status":"supported_inference","mapping_mode":"contemporaneous","reconstructed_at":null,"created_at":"2026-09-30T12:54:32.485Z","updated_at":"2026-09-30T12:54:32.485Z"}]}