Industry-first Partnership Integrates Digit® Robot and Agility Arc™ Cloud Automation Platform with Manhattan Active® Warehouse Management CORVALLIS, OR – April 4, 2024 – Agility Robotics, creator of the market-leading bipedal Mobile Manipulation Robot (MMR) Digit, today announced a partnership with Manhattan Associates, the global leader in supply chain commerce. This industry-first partnership marks a significant step forward for customers across a wide array of industries looking to integrate multi-purpose bipedal robots, like Digit, into their existing warehouse workflows.  As part of ..read more

Company Introduces Cloud Automation Platform for Managing Bipedal Mobile Manipulation Robots in Logistics and Manufacturing Operations   CORVALLIS, OR – March 11, 2024 – Agility Robotics, creator of the market-leading bipedal Mobile Manipulation Robot (MMR) Digit, today unveiled Agility Arc. Debuting today at MODEX, Agility Arc is a cloud automation platform for deploying and managing Digit fleets.  “Smart companies are looking to multi-purpose mobile manipulation solutions like Digit to automate themselves out of a very serious labor gap,” said Melonee Wise, CTO of Agility Robo ..read more

Veteran technology leader to spur broad commercial adoption as company prepares to deploy Digit robot at scale CORVALLIS, OR – March 4, 2024 – Agility Robotics, creator of the market-leading bipedal Mobile Manipulation Robot (MMR) called Digit, announced the appointment of veteran technology leader Peggy Johnson as Chief Executive Officer, effective today. Johnson will draw on her decades of technology leadership experience to guide the company’s next phase of growth as Agility expands commercial deployments, broadens its product portfolio, and prepares to manufacture Digit at scale. Peggy Jo ..read more

GXO Logistics, Inc. (NYSE: GXO), the world’s largest pure-play contract logistics provider, announced today that it is conducting a proof-of-concept pilot for Agility Robotics’ human-centric robot “Digit.” The robot is being tested on logistics tasks at SPANX’s facility in Flowery Branch, Ga., where GXO manages warehouse operations for the global womenswear brand’s direct-to-consumer and in-store orders. “We’re excited to take this pioneering step with Agility in the evolution of technology in warehouse operations,” — Adrian Stoch, Chief Automation Officer, GXO. “As the industry leader ..read more

Human-Centric Bipedal Robot Digit to Assist Amazon Employees with Repetitive Tasks Agility Robotics, creator of the groundbreaking bipedal robot Digit, announced that Amazon will begin testing Digit for use in their operations. Digit will first be tested at Amazon’s robotics research and development facility just south of Seattle. This development broadens the relationship between the two companies, as Agility is already part of the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund.   Digit is the first human-centric, multi-purpose robot made for logistics work. Digit can move, grasp, and handle it ..read more

Our Factory will Produce the Human-Centric, Multi-Purpose Robot “Digit” at Scale in the US  CORVALLIS, OR – September 18, 2023 – Agility Robotics, creator of the groundbreaking bipedal robot Digit, today revealed that the company is opening RoboFab™, a robot manufacturing facility in Salem, Oregon with the capability to produce more than 10,000 robots per year.  Initial construction of Agility’s 70,000 square foot robot factory began last year, and it is set to open later this year. Agility anticipates production capacity of hundreds of Digit robots in the first year, with the capab ..read more

Just over a year ago in April of 2022, Agility announced a $150M Series B funding round. That investment propelled us to more than double our team size, land new multinational Fortune 100 customers, and successfully launch the latest version of Digit, the world’s first human-centric, multi-purpose robot made for logistics work, at Promat in March 2023. Digit completed 20+ hours of live public demos at ProMat 2023. But of all the highlights, perhaps the most significant is the strategic growth of our leadership team and the addition of game changing expertise that will take Agility through the ..read more

A coalition of robotics companies, including Agility Robotics, ANYbotics, Boston Dynamics, Clearpath Robotics, Open Robotics and Unitree Robotics, today released the following letter: An Open Letter to the Robotics Industry and our Communities, We are some of the world’s leading companies dedicated to introducing new generations of advanced mobile robotics to society. These new generations of robots are more accessible, easier to operate, more autonomous, affordable, and adaptable than previous generations, and capable of navigating into locations previously inaccessible to automated or remote ..read more

Cassie has established a Guinness World Record for the fastest 100 meters by a bipedal robot. Cassie was invented at Oregon State University’s Dynamic Robotics Lab, under the leadership of Agility CTO Jonathan Hurst, and was Agility’s first commercial robot. Released in 2017 Cassie was the first bipedal robot made available as a commercial product. Cassie clocked the historic time of 24.73 seconds at OSU’s Whyte Track and Field Center, starting from a standing position and returning to that position after the sprint, with no falls. The 100-meter record builds on earlier achievements by the ro ..read more

Company Prepares To Introduce Flagship Robot To Logistics and Warehouse Environments CORVALLIS, OR – April 22, 2022 -- Agility Robotics, a creator and manufacturer of robots designed to work alongside people in logistics and warehouse environments, today announced that it has raised $150 million led by DCVC and Playground Global. The Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund also joined as an investor to help spur innovation in the logistics industry. Agility’s robots provide unique value to businesses by augmenting the human workforce’s productivity, efficiency, and wellness. This capital raise will ..read more