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The farm-equipment maker plans to start Digit on parts sorting and tote handling in Hesston, managed through Agility's Arc cloud platform.
Agility Robotics' Digit 5 and Boston Dynamics are early adopters; Nvidia says safety is the next bottleneck for humanoids and mobile robots.
Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus units per week by end of 2026, but worker pushback and 100-plus-part hands are slowing the ramp.
The new Digit lifts 50 pounds, runs 20+ hours a day, and squats to avoid workers — solving the safety problem that has blocked factory-floor deployment.
Ex-Apple special-project engineer Hamza Derbas plans 250 third-generation robots for an $80B mixed-palletizing market.
Washington tightened restrictions on Chinese drones and advanced robots this summer, but five Chinese firms shipped 86% of humanoids in H1 2026.
Sprinting robots beat human world records at the World Humanoid Robot Games, but boring chore events exposed how far autonomy still has to go.
The humanoid maker has $300M in contract orders, dozens of Digits deployed, and a reverse-merger IPO planned for later this year.
Boston Dynamics and Physical Intelligence say reinforcement learning and foundation models have redrawn what robot autonomy means in 2026.
The humanoid maker behind Digit is raising $620M to scale Digit v5 production against a $300M order book.
Agility's Jonathan Hurst and Berkeley's Sergey Levine say viral humanoid clips routinely mask human control, replayed environments, and sped-up footage.
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