Agility Robotics
Canvas Category Machinery : Industrial Robot : Humanoid
We started with scientific breakthroughs and layered on top of that world-class engineering. We approach everything with a focus on function. Our robots were designed from day one to do work and get the job done. Digit is the first mobile manipulation robot made for connecting automation technologies. Digit walks seamlessly into existing facilities, and amplifies what companies can do.
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Agility Robotics Announces Strategic Investment and Agreement with Motion Technology Company Schaeffler Group
Agility Robotics, creator of the leading bipedal Mobile Manipulation Robot (MMR) DigitⓇ, today announced during an appearance at global technology conference Web Summit that Schaeffler has made a minority investment in the company. In addition to the investment, the companies have signed an agreement in which Schaeffler, the motion technology company, intends to purchase humanoid robots from Agility Robotics for use across the whole global Schaeffler plant network.
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Agility Robotics and Ricoh partner to support expanding humanoid robot market
Agility Robotics, creator of the leading bipedal Mobile Manipulation Robot (MMR) Digit®, and Ricoh USA, Inc., one of the largest global service delivery organizations, announced it will partner to expand Agility’s customer support capabilities throughout North America. This agreement – the first of its kind for a humanoid robot – extends Agility’s support system through Ricoh’s world-class Service Advantage program and provides additional resources for its end users.
Ricoh will support Digit robots and Agility Arc™, Agility’s cloud automation platform for deploying and managing Digit fleets. Digit is a multi-purpose, human-centric robot made for logistics work, and designed to work safely in human spaces and help with a variety of repetitive tasks. Agility Arc is designed to simplify the deployment lifecycle, from facility mapping and workflow definition to operational management and troubleshooting.
Here’s what it could cost to hire a Digit humanoid
Many folks within the robotics industry were left wanting more information, however, particularly around the cost. And that’s where Johnson’s comments help shed some light. She said Agility Robotics is currently charging a “fully loaded $30 per hour” for its Digit humanoid. She said the return on investment (ROI) for customers is under two years.
That cost-per-hour figure for the humanoid, all accessories, and maintenance seems reasonable. Now, we don’t know how many Digits Spanx is using or how long the robots work each day. It’s unlikely Digit is working 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. But if it was, that’s $262,800 per robot per year. Those figures would be different with a 40-hour work week, of course. At that capacity, a robot would cost about $62,400 to run for the year.
GXO signs industry-first multi-year agreement with Agility Robotics
GXO Logistics, Inc., the world’s largest pure-play contract logistics provider, and Agility Robotics, creator of the leading bipedal Mobile Manipulation Robot (MMR) Digit®, announced that they have signed a multi-year agreement to begin deploying Digit in GXO’s logistics operations. This agreement, which follows a proof-of-concept pilot in late 2023, is both the industry’s first formal commercial deployment of humanoid robots and first Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) deployment of humanoid robots.
As part of the RaaS agreement, GXO is deploying Digit robots and Agility Arc™, Agility’s cloud automation platform for deploying and managing Digit fleets. Digit is a multi-purpose, human-centric robot made for logistics work, and designed to work safely in human spaces and help with a variety of repetitive tasks. Agility Arc is designed to simplify the deployment lifecycle, from facility mapping and workflow definition to operational management and troubleshooting.
In the SPANX facility, Agility’s solutions integrate with existing automation, including Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs). Expanding on last year’s pilot, Digit robots are assisting with repetitive tasks such as moving totes from cobots and placing them onto conveyors, all orchestrated through Agility Arc. Under the RaaS agreement, the companies will continue to explore additional use cases and scale Digit usage to meet demand throughout the deployment.
Agility Robotics and Manhattan Associates Partner to Bring AI-Powered Humanoid Robots into the Warehouse
Agility Robotics, creator of the market-leading bipedal Mobile Manipulation Robot (MMR) Digit, 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 the partnership, Agility will join the Manhattan Value Partner (MVP) program for trusted partners, and the Manhattan Automation Network for warehouse automation solution providers. Manhattan and Agility will work together to integrate Digit and Agility Arc, Agility’s cloud automation platform for managing fleets of Digits, with the Manhattan Active Warehouse Management solution. Agility is the first humanoid robotics provider to join both the MVP and the Manhattan Automation Network.
Agility Robotics Brings Operational Visibility to Deployment of Digit Fleets with the Launch of Agility Arc™
In its first iteration, Agility Arc will provide customers with operational visibility into critical KPIs like uptime, throughput, Mean Time Between Incidents (MTBI), and robot status, allowing customers to understand what’s happening in the workcell and how Digit is performing. Additionally, Agility Arc will provide industry standard APIs to simplify integration with existing Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Warehouse Execution Systems (WES), and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) among others.
Amazon Introducing Warehouse Overhaul With Robotics to Speed Deliveries
Amazon is introducing an array of new artificial intelligence and robotics capabilities into its warehouse operations that will reduce delivery times and help identify inventory more quickly. The revamp will change the way Amazon moves products through its fulfillment centers with new AI-equipped sortation machines and robotic arms. It is also set to alter how many of the company’s vast army of workers do their jobs. Amazon says its new robotics system, named Sequoia after the giant trees native to California’s Sierra Nevada region, is designed for both speed and safety. Humans are meant to work alongside new machines in a way that should reduce injuries, the company says.
Amazon said it would also start to test a bipedal robot named Digit in its operations. Digit, which is designed by Agility Robotics, can move, grasp and handle items, and will initially be used by the company to pick up and move empty tote containers.Â
Robotics offers route for US manufacturing renaissance
“The US is not going to build the same type of manufacturing China has built for the last four decades,” says Lior Susan, partner at Eclipse Ventures, which backs physical industries at the forefront of what it describes as the next industrial revolution. Venture capital, however, still flows overwhelmingly into software, IT and cloud infrastructure, and fintech, rather than heavy-duty machinery and automation. According to advisers EY, just 2 per cent of $44bn raised by VCs in the first quarter of 2023 went to industrials.
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OSU spinout Agility Robotics, maker of legged workplace robots, secures $20 million in new investment
Agility Robotics, a company launched at Oregon State University that designs and builds legged robots to operate in human spaces, has raised $20 million in new investment, the company announced.
DCVC and Playground Global co-led the funding round and were joined by TDK Ventures, MFV Partners, the Industrial Technology Investment Corporation, Sony Innovation Fund and Safar Partners.
Hurst said walking robots will one day be a common sight – much like the automobile, and with a similar impact. The limiting factor has been the science and understanding of legged locomotion, not the speed of computing, strength of materials or power of motors.
But research at Oregon State is enabling breakthroughs. ATRIAS, a research robot developed at the Dynamic Robotics Laboratory at Oregon State, was the first robot to reproduce human walking gait dynamics. Following ATRIAS was Cassie, the first robotics device for research and development capable of walking and running. Then came the humanoid robot Digit.