Jonathan Hurst
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Jonathan Hurst is co-founder and Chief Robot Officer of Agility Robotics, and a professor and co-founder of the Oregon State University Robotics Institute. He holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering and an M.S. and Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, and has been at Oregon State University since 2008. His research has focused on legged locomotion and on enabling robots to interact physically with the world through hardware, control, and machine learning approaches. He is known for work on Physical AI and for applying that work to Agility Robotics’ Digit robot.
Updated 6 September 2026
Public sources: agilityrobotics.com engineering.oregonstate.edu
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