Inside the world's first humanoid factory, where robots could eventually build themselves

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About 30 miles from the company's headquarters in Oregon, Agility Robotics has built "RoboFab," a facility designed to scale up the production of its bipedal robot, Digit.

It is the first factory dedicated to building humanoid robots, according to the privately held company, which has already begun testing Digit with high-profile clients like Amazon and GXO Logistics.

"It's been in production for about a year. The capacity of this 70,000 square foot facility is 10,000 units a year. We will roll up to that over the next couple of years," said Peggy Johnson, CEO of Agility Robotics, in an interview with CNBC Tech: The Edge.

Digit was designed to take up repetitive and mundane manufacturing tasks, helping to close the labor gap in the logistics sector.

"There's over a million jobs in the logistics area alone that are going unfilled. Robots like Digit can step in and take those tasks off their hands," Johnson said.

"What we're seeing is this is typically a part of the job that they don't like. We can offload that, free up that human to have more cycles in their day, to learn new skills," she added.

Agility has raised $190 million since it was first founded in 2015. It launched the fourth version of Digit in October 2024 and is already working on the next iteration. 

"In the next generation, we will incorporate what's known as collaborative safety, where you can have humanoids working alongside humans. We'll have incorporated AI more fully, and of course, we'll have the ability to have Digit recharge itself through our stand," Johnson said.

Embedded with artificial intelligence, as well as large language and robotics foundation models, Digit's fifth generation will be trained in new skills, such as following commands throughout the day and performing tasks without human interference.

The end goal, according to Johnson, is for the robots to be able to build future versions of themselves.

Watch the video above for an up-close look at Digit and the RoboFab factory.

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Robots should do all our work and we should have an unconditional basic income

e.v.k.
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The best thing about robots is they don’t stand around running their mouths

mr.d
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Folks working at the egg factories must be feeling real secure in their jobs rn

loudboomboom
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The reporter from Bloomberg said two days ago: "The company hopes this building will be able to turn out 10, 000 robots a year, but getting there will take a while. Engineers are still documenting assembly processes, figuring out what tools should go where, before they can start mass hiring technicians to assemble the bots. The first robot assembled here will be completed sometime this month."

But unless you are a Sherlock Holmes, you would never get such an impression from *this* video.

cogoid
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I'm not against AI or robots or increasing efficiency and productivity. Nor am I against companies wanting to save costs on labor to increase their profit margin... But when I hear CEOs or tech companies say that these new technologies will "offload... humans to... get more training" etc. I'll just have to roll my eyes because when the reporter asks if this will take jobs away from humans the only answer is yes. It won't be right away but it will happen as soon as these technologies become ubiquitous. Just be honest and then no one will accuse you of lying in when it happens.

rasheedismyname
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I love the way she paints it “ free up that human to have more skills” -_- really?


FYI people, they’ll be taking our jobs

krtt
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I can't believe Amazon hasn't purchased this company yet.

JJs_playground
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Robotics is such a great career to choose from the future perspective. I am happy that my kid is getting the opportunity to learn robotics at moonpreneur USA from the very early age.

ShivaniSharma-ibsb
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1:30 Right, because everyone knows that people work in warehouses doing jobs they hate, because they just don't have enough free time to learn new skills for more interesting jobs.

muzehack
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In the news today a couple of Digit robots were fired from Amazon after being caught out the back of the warehouse plugging portable Powerbanks into each others USB ports during a break period in full view of other employees.

flashkraft
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19 seconds to move a box?
These warehouses would want you to work faster then that.

saulgoodman
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Feet is very loud, need to do something about that.

trevorross
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Is the 'blinking' just to make their human coworkers feel more comfortable around them or is it an actual function?

simonthomas
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"the human can have more cycles in their day to learn new things?" Did this human just compare her labor to robots? Im sorry lady I am equal to you, I am human as well. I dont have reboot cycles.

AugustusOmega
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How many years until a group starts campaigning for the rights of robots?

austin.england
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I want to see some companion robots for personal use.

rodgoldberg
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At least these robots can't unionize.

kevinbabicz
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What conditions are needed to replace robots with humans?

heart-of-people
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Wow they are “digits” behind Tesla Optimus and Figure lol

theone
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The Geonosian droid factory is looking cleaner than i remember

JinKee