Agility Robotics

Getting multiple Digits to move in sync is a real test of multi-robot coordination. Each one runs its own balance and whole-body control while staying timed to the others. The same thing that lets a fleet work side by side on a warehouse floor. #Agility #DigitRobot

We're hiring a Staff Robotics Software Engineer, Robot Behaviors, a hands-on technical lead to build the next generation of intelligent robot behaviors and expand what Digit can do in the real world. You'll own development end-to-end: behavior architecture, task planning, implementation, on-robot testing, and deployment. The behaviors you ship let Digit take on harder, more varied work — not in a demo, but on the floor in real facilities. We're looking for a technical leader who sets direction while staying close to the code and the robot. If you want to solve hard robotics problems and ship work that leaves the lab and runs in the real world, let's talk. Apply at the link in the comments.

We've got news. Michael Beer has joined Agility as our Chief Financial Officer. Michael brings deep public-company finance and capital markets experience from Energy Vault, FreeWire, and more than a decade as an equity research analyst covering the transportation, logistics, and infrastructure sectors our customers work in every day. Welcome to the team, Michael. #Agility #FutureOfWork

The argument about humanoid robots has changed. For years the question was whether they could do real work. That one's answered. They're already on factory floors, logging real hours in real production. The open question now belongs to Washington: does the United States lead as this scales, or repeat what happened with solar, batteries, and EVs? That's the subject of this month's Actuator. Our CEO Peggy Johnson lays out six pillars for regulating industrial humanoids. Forbes makes the case that task-specific robots may win the market instead. PitchBook reports a record $16.3B quarter. We pulled them together. No hype. Just the real state of the work. Read this month's edition. #Agility #DigitRobot

Business Insider spent an afternoon at our new Fremont hub: 60,000 square feet, and we're hiring nearly 200 people to work on the hardware, AI, and skills behind Digit. Fremont was a deliberate choice. Silicon Valley talent on one side, the East Bay's manufacturing base on the other, and enough floor space for machines to actually move. Thank you, Lloyd L. #Agility #DigitRobot

Most conversations about humanoid robots and jobs start with displacement. We'd start somewhere else: the work nobody can staff, and the people who keep the machines running. Digit works in logistics, manufacturing, and warehouse environments, handling the repetitive, physically demanding tasks where injury rates run high. At GXO and Schaeffler, that's happening on live sites today. Those deployments create work of their own. Deploying, maintaining, and repairing humanoids is skilled technician work, and it scales with the fleet. Federal policy can build that pipeline now: robotics technician training, apprenticeships, and partnerships with universities and technical trades. That's one of six pillars in our new policy paper, Safeguarding America's Humanoid Future. Read the paper. Link in the comments. #Agility #FutureOfWork #DigitRobot

Yesterday, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee's Communications and Technology Subcommittee took up the GUARD Act of 2026, bipartisan legislation that would direct national security agencies to review humanoid and quadruped robots tied to foreign adversaries. Our CEO, Peggy Johnson, wrote about why this moment matters in a new op-ed for Pirate Wires. Her argument: the viral clips of dancing robots are a distraction from what's actually at stake. Humanoid robots are already deployed on American factory and warehouse floors, and the question facing Congress isn't whether the technology arrives — it already has. It's whether the U.S. stays in the lead or watches robotics slip to Beijing the way solar, batteries, and EVs did. Agility endorsed the GUARD Act at its introduction. Read Peggy's full case for why economic security is national security: https://lnkd.in/eZEgZUnF #Agility #FutureOfWork

The robots that win won't be the ones doing backflips for a video. They'll be the ones showing up for a full shift, every day, without fail. That's the thesis at the center of a new DIGITIMES Asia interview with 🌱🤝🌍 Nicolas Sauvage, president of TDK Ventures (an early investor in Agility). Sauvage argues that "generality is a destination, not a launch strategy," and that the robotics companies actually winning today are the ones with the narrowest operational discipline — not the broadest promises. Read the full interview for Sauvage's take on why focus, not hype, wins in physical AI. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/esPMqTdx #Agility #DigitRobot

I read this in Forbes this week, and it's more than worth the five minute read: Jeff Burnstein, who's spent four decades at the A3 - Association for Advancing Automation, was asked point blank whether humanoid robots are the future of factories or just another hype cycle. His answer: we're heavy in the hype cycle. And the only humanoid he's aware of that actually operated in a U.S. production facility is Agility Robotics' Digit, at a GXO Logistics plant. Digit is also on the floor at a Schaeffler manufacturing facility. We've logged more than 65,000 hours of operation. I appreciated that call out but I'd add one more thing about the hype cycle... Most demo videos aren't lying about what a robot can do...once. They're just not telling you about the hard part. Turning a demo into a safe, revenue-generating deployment is a completely different problem. We built Digit around solving for the hard part, not the demo. It doesn't always make for a great video. It does make for a great business. Burnstein's own data backs this up in a way that gets missed constantly: robot sales and U.S. unemployment move in opposite directions, not the same one. The real threat was never automation; it's losing the ability to compete at all. He's also right that safety, not intelligence or dexterity, is the actual bottleneck. No humanoid has shipped yet that can work safely outside a cage. Until that changes industry-wide, "scale" stays a slide in a pitch deck. Burnstein pegs today's unfilled manufacturing jobs at 500,000 and projects that number to reach 1.9 million by 2033. That gap gets closed by whoever can actually deploy safely outside of a cage, not by whoever has the best demo. Worth the read: https://lnkd.in/gr_p_eV8 #FutureOfWork

Why put a roboticist on stage at an energy conference? Because the labor shortage runs through all of it. Supply chains, construction velocity, and the skilled trades. At the Energy Future Forum 2026 in May, our co-founder and board chairman Damion Shelton sat down with Mark P Mills to make the case: in US warehouses alone, roughly 1 million manual-labor jobs sit unfilled, work that needs a person, with no person to do it. That's the gap Digit is built to close. Not science fiction, a real robot doing real work in a commercial warehouse today. And here's the distinction that matters: Digit takes on tasks, not jobs. It handles the repetitive work people don't want so they can move to safer, higher-skilled, better-paid roles. Damion and Mark also get into what changed to make this possible, why we're not building robot butlers, and why keeping people safe matters more than how fast we scale. Watch the full interview: https://lnkd.in/eYMe9Tbm #Agility #DigitRobot #FutureOfWork