Agility Robotics has introduced the opening of a 6,500 square-meter manufacturing facility devoted to constructing its Digit humanoid robotic. The manufacturing facility is situated in Salem, Oregon, which, within the opinion of this native Oregonian, is a superb state through which to find something. At peak capability, ‘RoboFab’ will make use of 500 people (working alongside a bunch of Digit robots) and can be capable of produce “greater than 10,000 robots per yr,” a staggering quantity contemplating that Earth’s present inhabitants of humanoid robots probably numbers within the low a whole bunch at most.
The manufacturing facility has been underneath development since final yr, and is “set to open later this yr,” in response to Agility’s press launch. In 2024, Agility anticipates that they’ll have “manufacturing capability of a whole bunch of Digit robots within the first yr, with the potential to scale to greater than 10,000 robots per yr.” Observe that when Agility is referring to “manufacturing capability,” the corporate is just not going as far as to counsel that they’ll be promoting that many robots, simply that they’re theoretically able to making them, though scaling this up is under no circumstances trivial.
One of many issues that Agility goes to have to determine as a part of this course of is easy methods to effectively construct after which assist complicated robots at this scale, which is a vastly totally different drawback than constructing a pair dozen robots for analysis and industrial pilots. This contains the whole lot from provide chain (what number of actuators do 10,000 robots a yr want and the place the heck are you going to seek out them?) to manufacturability—stuff like, how will you decrease the variety of instances it’s important to connect one factor into one other factor whereas placing your robotic collectively? Relying in your perspective, these issues are both attention-grabbing or terrifying (or perhaps each) however both approach they’re not issues that humanoid robots have actually needed to cope with earlier than. So, kudos to Agility for getting so far—the onerous half begins now, after they have to seek out folks to really purchase all of those robots.
Agility says that its first associate clients can count on supply of their Digits subsequent yr, and the remainder of us will see basic availability in 2025.
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