Agility Robotics is Mass Producing Humanoid Digit Robots

Saturday - October 14 2023, 23:51 UTC - 1 year ago

Agility Robotics is creating a mass-production facility for humanoid robots with a model AI. The 70,000 square foot factory will produce 10,000 robots a year to be used for warehouse and delivery tasks. With a 10 million square foot factory, they would be able to produce the staggering number of 1.5 million humanoid robots a year.

Agility Robotics is making a 70,000 square foot factory to mass produce 10,000 humanoid Digit robots per year. The factory is about half the size of a Costco. They will use the humanoid robots in their own warehouses and factories. They are focused on warehouse and delivery robots. They have switched to large language model AI for robot control. Each of Tesla’s gigafactories for building cars is about 10 million square feet of factory floor space. If Agility Robotics or other humanoid robot makers have demand to enable scaling a factory to 10 million square feet then such a factory would make 1.5 million humanoid robots per year.

Agility Robotics is creating a factory which will span the size of roughly half a Costco, and it will produce 10,000 humanoid Digit robots per year. The robots themselves are both physical and autonomous, making them extremely useful for repetitive tasks. They will be used to fulfill warehouse and delivery roles, taking the potential strain off of human employees. The factory approximates the size of the factory needs to fulfill such robotic orders and utilizes a large language model AI to control the robots. They are advancing the robot industry by making mass-production much more accessible, as such humanoid robots usually are 3D-printed.

Tesla’s Gigafactories are about 10 million square feet, so if Agility Robotics or other humanoid robot makers have demand to enable scaling a factory to such a size, it would make 1.5 million humanoid robots a year, far outstripping their current production.