this is a first look inside the world’s first humanoid robot assembly plant it’s a work in progress here agility robotics is going to manufacture a digit a teal in metal gray bot that walks like a bird it knees bent backwards and it’s designed to work at first anyway at warehouses including at Amazon and gxo Logistics the factory is on marshy former agricultural land on the outskirts of Salem Oregon’s Capital not a robotics hotspot but it is up the road from Corvalis in Oregon State University where Jonathan Hurst a robotics Professor co-founded agility and of course there is an Amazon warehouse nearby agility first design was a monopod called Thumper later in more sophisticated Bots have arms and a head unit for sensors making them a little less creepy at this facility agility simulates work its Bots are already doing for clients stacking tote bins and Amazon and placing bins on conveyor belts in the case of gxo while I was watching one digit tried to place a stack of bins on top of another but was off by a small margin so the new Bins set a SK digit paused and watched for a few seconds as it software tried to figure out what to do and it gave up other times it was seamless digits communication systems and four sensors live in its head unit at first agility didn’t put heads on the robots the team started with the goal of building Bots able to move in human spaces not ones that looked like digit doesn’t have fingers ail’s first digit model started with flat paddles capable of lifting totes and they’re adding other end of arm devices the company hopes this building will be able to turn out 10,000 robots a year but getting there will take a while Engineers are still documenting assembly processes figuring out what tools should go where before they can start Mass hiring technicians to assemble the Bots the first robot assembled here one of digits new fourth version will be completed sometime this month