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Agility Robotics, creator of the bipedal humanoid robotic Digit, at this time revealed that the corporate is opening RoboFab, a robotic manufacturing facility in Salem, Oregon with the potential to provide greater than 10,000 robots per yr.
Preliminary development of Agility’s 70,000-square-foot (6,500-square-meter) robotic manufacturing unit started final yr, and it’s set to open later this yr. Agility anticipates the manufacturing capability of tons of of Digit robots within the first yr, with the potential to scale to greater than 10,000 robots per yr. At full capability, RoboFab will make use of greater than 500 staff in Salem, along with workers at Agility’s different places. Digit additionally will work within the new manufacturing unit, in the same capability to Agility’s buyer websites, shifting, loading, and unloading totes.
Digit is designed from the bottom as much as go the place individuals go and do helpful work, safely, in areas designed for individuals. As a result of so many duties are designed round human workflows, Digit’s human-centric design allows multi-purpose utility. Preliminary purposes embrace bulk materials dealing with inside warehouses and distribution facilities. With the opening of the brand new manufacturing facility, prospects who’re collaborating within the Agility Companion Program (APP) can anticipate supply of the primary Digits in 2024, with basic market availability in 2025. For extra data or to use to hitch the APP, please go to https://agilityrobotics.com/companions.
“The opening of our manufacturing unit marks a pivotal second within the historical past of robotics: the start of the mass manufacturing of business humanoid robots,” stated Damion Shelton, Agility Robotics’ co-founder and CEO. “We constructed Digit to unravel troublesome issues in at this time’s workforce like accidents, burnout, excessive turnover, and unfillable labor gaps, with the last word imaginative and prescient of enabling people to be extra human. While you’re constructing new know-how to make society higher, an important milestone is whenever you’re capable of mass produce that know-how at a scale the place it may have an actual, widespread affect.”
Agility Robotics COO Aindrea Campbell is main the scaling of Agility’s manufacturing and company operations to satisfy the big business demand for Digit, together with the launch of the brand new manufacturing unit.
With greater than twenty years as a senior operations chief at firms together with Ford and Apple, Aindrea co-led the transition from metal to aluminum on the F150 and quickly scaled capability as head of iPad operations through the pandemic.
“Not solely are we constructing the world’s first manufacturing unit for humanoid robots, however we’re doing so in the US about 30 miles from our engineering middle which is improbable for setting us as much as scale rapidly,” added Campbell. “By establishing RoboFab as a state-of-the-art manufacturing hub in Salem, Oregon, we aren’t solely accelerating the event and deployment of superior robotic programs but additionally cultivating innovation and creating high-skilled job alternatives. With the potential to provide Digit at scale, we’re poised to vary the way forward for work for the higher.”
You may be taught extra concerning the State of Humanoid Robotics Growth with Agility Robotics co-founder and Chief Robotic Officer Jonathan Hurst along with Geordie Rose CoFounder & CEO of Sanctuary, and Jeff Cardenas Co-Founder & CEO of Apptronik. These three will kick off the 2023 RoboBusiness occasion with a keynote panel on October 18, 2023. You may register for the occasion on the RoboBusiness web site.