RoboFab is able to construct 10,000 humanoid robots per 12 months

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 this time, 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 will probably be inbuilt Salem, Oregon, and the corporate tells Information World 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 economic humanoid robots,” mentioned Agility Robotics’ co-founder and CEO Damion Shelton. “We constructed Digit to unravel tough issues in in the present day’s workforce like accidents, burnout, excessive turnover and unfillable labor gaps, with the last word imaginative and prescient of enabling people to be extra human. Whenever you’re constructing new know-how to make society higher, a very powerful 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 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 will probably be utilizing Digit within the manufacturing of Digit, which is type 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 Information World Disrupt {Hardware} stage later this week, and Digit could even make an look so you’ll be able to meet the robotic in individual. Be there, or be FOMO-ing so exhausting you’ll want you had been.