RoboFab is able to construct 10,000 humanoid robots per yr

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!). At the moment, the corporate introduced it’s on the point of crank up its RoboFab, which might construct greater than 10,000 Digits per yr. Apparent Skynet jokes apart, I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.

The manufacturing unit might be inbuilt Salem, Oregon, and the corporate tells TechCrunch it began preliminary building of the 70,000-square-foot robotic manufacturing unit final yr, and it’s set to open later this yr.

“The opening of our manufacturing unit 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 unravel troublesome issues in as we speak’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 know-how to make society higher, an important milestone is while you’re in a position to mass produce that know-how at a scale the place it could possibly have an actual, widespread affect.”

The corporate is displaying off its manufacturing unit 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 sort of like the alternative of cannibalism, in order that’s fairly neat.

I’m interviewing Melonee Smart (CTO) and Damion Shelton from Agility on the TechCrunch Disrupt {Hardware} stage later this week, and Digit could even make an look so you’ll be able to meet the robotic in particular person. Be there, or be FOMO-ing so exhausting you’ll want you had been.