Digit
Coverage of Digit in the Nexus archive.
- This Silicon Valley city is quietly becoming Robot Row. Here's who's clanking around.
Fremont, a Silicon Valley city, is emerging as a robotics hub with companies like Agility Robotics, Tesla, and Meta establishing facilities. Agility Robotics opened a 60,000-square-foot R&D hub for its Digit robot, leveraging Fremont's industrial expertise and manufacturing infrastructure preserved by the city's leadership.
- Humanoid startup Agility Robotics doesn't want 'coin-operated employees'
Agility Robotics, a humanoid-robot startup, opened a new Silicon Valley facility to expand its workforce and develop its Digit humanoid. The company avoids bidding wars for AI and robotics talent, prioritizing cultural fit over high compensation packages and emphasizing its status as a leader in commercial humanoid robot deployment.
- Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard
Agility Robotics is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California. The facility is located in Fremont, California.
- Agility Robotics heads to Wall Street in a $2.5B bet on staffing warehouses with humanoids
Agility Robotics, a maker of humanoid warehouse robots, plans to go public via a $2.5B merger with Churchill Capital Group. The company's Digit robots, designed for repetitive industrial tasks, have backing from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, and Foxconn, with early customers including Toyota and Mercado Libre.
- New humanoid robots replacing workers in factories
Humanoid robots like Digit are being deployed in factories, replacing workers at companies such as Schaeffler, Toyota, and GXO. NBC News' Brian Cheung reports on this technological advancement.