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Agility Robotics, creator of the bipedal humanoid robotic Digit, at the moment 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 12 months.
Preliminary development of Agility’s 70,000-square-foot (6,500-square-meter) robotic manufacturing unit started final 12 months, and it’s set to open later this 12 months. Agility anticipates the manufacturing capability of lots of of Digit robots within the first 12 months, with the potential 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 workers at Agility’s different areas. 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 folks go and do helpful work, safely, in areas designed for folks. As a result of so many duties are designed round human workflows, Digit’s human-centric design permits 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 taking part within the Agility Accomplice Program (APP) can anticipate supply of the primary Digits in 2024, with basic market availability in 2025. For extra data or to use to affix 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,” mentioned Damion Shelton, Agility Robotics’ co-founder and CEO. “We constructed Digit to resolve tough issues in at the moment’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. Once you’re constructing new know-how to make society higher, a very powerful milestone is once you’re capable of mass produce that know-how at a scale the place it could actually have an actual, widespread influence.”
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 throughout the pandemic.
“Not solely are we constructing the world’s first manufacturing unit for humanoid robots, however we’re doing so in america about 30 miles from our engineering middle which is incredible for setting us as much as scale shortly,” added Campbell. “By establishing RoboFab as a state-of-the-art manufacturing hub in Salem, Oregon, we’re not 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 possibly can study extra in regards to 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 possibly can register for the occasion on the RoboBusiness web site.