AgilityRobotics' RoboFab Factory and Digit Robot Update

TapTechNews October 10th news, AgilityRobotics announced last year to build the world's first humanoid robot factory - RoboFab, to expand the production scale of its bipedal robot Digit.

Now a year has passed, and AgilityRobotics recently disclosed the latest situation of this factory.

AgilityRobotics' RoboFab factory is located about 30 miles (TapTechNews note: about 48.28 kilometers) from the company's headquarters in Oregon, and has officially started assembling robots currently. It is learned that the production capacity of this factory in the first year has reached hundreds of units.

AgilityRobotics' CEO Peggy Johnson said: Digit robot has been in production for about a year. This 70,000-square-foot factory will have an annual production capacity of 10,000 units, and we will achieve this goal in the next few years.

Moreover, the company has begun to test Digit with well-known customers such as Amazon and GXO Logistics.

Digit is designed to take on repetitive and boring manufacturing tasks and help narrow the labor gap in the logistics field. There are more than 1 million job vacancies in the logistics field alone. Robots like Digit can step in, Johnson said. This is often a part of the work that human employees don't like. We can liberate employees and allow them to have more time to learn new skills during the day.

Agility has raised $190 million (about 1.345 billion yuan currently) since it was first established in 2015. The company launched the fourth version of Digit in October 2024 and is already working on the next iteration. In the next generation, we will integrate the so-called collaborative safety that can allow humanoid robots to work with humans. We will integrate AI more fully. Johnson said.

Johnson also said that Agility's ultimate goal is to enable robots to be able to build their own future versions by themselves.