Manufacturing facility will Produce the Human-Centric, Multi-Objective Robotic “Digit” at Scale within the US
CORVALLIS, OR – September 18, 2023 – Agility Robotics, creator of the groundbreaking bipedal robotic Digit, immediately revealed that the corporate is opening RoboFab™, a robotic manufacturing facility in Salem, Oregon with the aptitude to provide greater than 10,000 robots per 12 months.
Preliminary building of Agility’s 70,000 sq. foot robotic manufacturing facility started final 12 months, and it’s set to open later this 12 months. Agility anticipates manufacturing capability of lots of of Digit robots within the first 12 months, with the aptitude to scale to greater than 10,000 robots per 12 months. At full capability, RoboFab will make use of greater than 500 staff in Salem, along with staff at Agility’s different areas. Digit additionally will work within the new manufacturing facility, in an identical 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 permits multi-purpose utility. Preliminary functions embrace bulk materials dealing with inside warehouses and distribution facilities. With the opening of the brand new manufacturing facility, clients which are taking part within the Agility Accomplice Program (APP) can count on supply of the primary Digits in 2024, with normal market availability in 2025. For extra info or to use to affix the APP, please go to https://agilityrobotics.com/companions.
“The opening of our manufacturing facility marks a pivotal second within the historical past of robotics: the start of the mass manufacturing of economic humanoid robots,” mentioned Damion Shelton, Agility Robotics’ co-founder and CEO. “We constructed Digit to resolve tough issues in immediately’s workforce like accidents, burnout, excessive turnover and unfillable labor gaps, with the final word imaginative and prescient of enabling people to be extra human. If you’re constructing new expertise to make society higher, an important milestone is while you’re in a position to mass produce that expertise at a scale the place it may possibly have an actual, widespread impression.”
Agility Robotics COO Aindrea Campbell is main the scaling of Agility’s manufacturing and company operations to satisfy the big industrial demand for Digit, together with the launch of the brand new manufacturing facility. With greater than twenty years as a senior operations chief at corporations 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 throughout the pandemic.
“Not solely are we constructing the world’s first manufacturing facility for humanoid robots, however we’re doing so in america about 30 miles from our engineering heart which is unbelievable 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 techniques, but in addition cultivating innovation and creating high-skilled job alternatives. With the aptitude to provide Digit at scale, we’re poised to vary the way forward for work for the higher.”
This video has extra info on Agility’s RoboFab, the primary manufacturing facility for humanoid robots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=514IZJENQ3s
About Agility Robotics
Co-headquartered in Corvallis, Oregon and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with workplaces in Palo Alto, California, Agility Robotics’ mission is to construct robotic companions that increase the human workforce, in the end enabling people to be extra human™. Agility’s groundbreaking bi-pedal robotic Digit is the primary multi-purpose, human-centric robotic that’s made for work™.
