Humanoid robots are fairly cool, and Agility Robotics‘ bipedal robotic Digit is up there when it comes to superior tech (it even has a face!). Immediately, the corporate introduced it’s on the brink of crank up its RoboFab, which may construct greater than 10,000 Digits per 12 months. Apparent Skynet jokes apart, I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.
The manufacturing facility might be in-built Salem, Oregon, and the corporate tells TechCrunch it began preliminary development of the 70,000-square-foot robotic manufacturing facility final 12 months, and it’s set to open later this 12 months.
“The opening of our manufacturing facility marks a pivotal second within the historical past of robotics: the start of the mass manufacturing of business humanoid robots,” mentioned Agility Robotics’ co-founder and CEO Damion Shelton. “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. If you’re constructing new expertise to make society higher, a very powerful milestone is while you’re capable of mass produce that expertise at a scale the place it will possibly have an actual, widespread impression.”
The corporate is displaying off its manufacturing facility in a video it produced for the event, which incorporates some pictures of Digit in motion. After all, the corporate might be utilizing Digit within the manufacturing of Digit, which is form of like the other of cannibalism, in order that’s fairly neat.
I’m interviewing Melonee Sensible (CTO) and Damion Shelton from Agility on the TechCrunch Disrupt {Hardware} stage later this week, and Digit could even make an look so you may meet the robotic in particular person. Be there, or be FOMO-ing so onerous you’ll want you had been.