{"id":578615,"date":"2024-04-09T15:26:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T19:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/?p=578615"},"modified":"2024-04-09T15:26:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T19:26:08","slug":"agility-robotics-digit-wins-inaugural-robot-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/agility-robotics-digit-wins-inaugural-robot-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Agility Robotics&#8217; Digit wins inaugural Robot of the Year award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Agility Robotics Partners With GXO\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NgYo-Wd0E_U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>2023 was the year that humanoid robots took big strides onto the public stage, and Agility Robotics pulled ahead in that race with Digit, which is our first-ever RBR50 Robot of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>At ProMAT last year, Digit stole the show by demonstrating its ability to pick up totes from a shelf, walk over to a conveyor, and place the totes onto the conveyor. At the time, Corvallis, Ore.-based Agility Robotics said the demo was based on a real customer use case.<\/p>\n<p>Later in 2023, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/tag\/agility-robotics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">company<\/a> announced pilots with two major customers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/tag\/Amazon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/tag\/gxo-logistics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GXO Logistics<\/a>, which claims to be the world\u2019s largest pure-play contract logistics provider. Digit is 5 ft., 9 in (175cm) tall, weighs 143 lb. (64.8 kg), and can carry up to 35 lb. (18 kg).<\/p>\n<p>In October, Amazon and Agility <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/agility-robotics-gets-a-boost-from-amazon-the-us-alliance-of-robotics-clusters-is-born\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/category\/robots-platforms\/humanoids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">humanoid<\/a> robot was being tested at Amazon\u2019s robotics research and development facility outside of Seattle. The initial use of Digit is to help employees with tote recycling, a highly repetitive process of picking up and moving empty totes once inventory has been completely picked out of them.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2023, GXO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/gxo-logistics-putting-digit-humanoid-to-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that Digit is being tested for logistics tasks at a SPANX facility in Georgia. Digit is moving totes filled with products off of autonomous mobile robots (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/category\/robots-platforms\/amrs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AMRs<\/a>) and onto a conveyor. Agility said at the time that Digit will communicate with the AMR fleet manager in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Stoch, chief automation officer at GXO, said Digit\u2019s potential flexibility gives it a nod over other types of robots, including AMRs with top <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">modules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">\u201cThe real application here is end-to-end product flow throughout the warehouse,\u201d he said. \u201cUntil now, solutions have been mostly discrete applications: goods-to-person, sorters, wearable tech. Solving discrete problems in one part of the puzzle.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For companies operating fulfillment centers with a wide product mix or fluctuating demand, the potential <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">flexibility of humanoids could help fill the ongoing labor crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Agility Robotics recently <a href=\"https:\/\/agilityrobotics.com\/news\/agility-robotics-brings-operational-visibility-to-deployment-of-digit-fleets-with-the-launch-of-agility-arc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched<\/a> Agility Arc, a cloud platform for managing operations, and it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/agility-robotics-partners-with-leading-wms-provider-cuts-staff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">partnered<\/a> with warehouse management systems (WMS) provider Manhattan Associates.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve never seen a humanoid perform real tasks in a commercial setting, until now. Humanoids have long been relegated to research labs, but the goalposts began to seismically shift in 2023.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-568305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/RSE24_728x90_RegOpen_Vs1.jpg\" alt=\"SITE AD for the 2024 Robotics Summit registration.\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roboticssummit.com\/\">Learn from Agility Robotics, Amazon, Disney, Teradyne and many more.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\n<h2>See Agility at the Robotics Summit<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roboticssummit.com\/speaker\/jonathan-hurst\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonathan Hurst<\/a>, co-founder and chief robot officer at Agility Robotics, will be keynoting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roboticssummit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robotics Summit &amp; Expo<\/a>, which takes place May 1 and 2 in Boston and is produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Robot Report<\/em><\/a> and parent company WTWH Media. His talk, \u201cHumanoid Robots Get to Work,&#8221; will explore the technological breakthroughs propelling humanoids like Digit into real-world use cases.<\/p>\n<p>Agility Robotics will also be featured in the show&#8217;s RBR50 Showcase. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/rsedtb2024.mapyourshow.com\/8_0\/floorplan\/?hallID=C&amp;selectedBooth=448\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Booth 448<\/a> on the show floor to see Digit in action. The showcase will also feature technology from Boston Dynamics, Brightpick, Locus Robotics, and more.<\/p>\n<p>You can also learn more about Agility Robotics and the rest of this year&#8217;s RBR50 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/rbr50-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">award winners<\/a> at the first-ever RBR50 Gala. At 6:00 p.m. EDT after Day 1 of the show, the ticketed reception will allow attendees to network with the people behind this year&#8217;s most innovative robots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.cvent.com\/event\/4d985663-2d6f-4121-94de-b2037e53a579\/regPage:617b1dc3-3ddb-4468-8087-049a4e6e51e8?rp=982838d6-1320-4b36-b6a2-a9d39ae14ef9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Registration is now open<\/a> for the Robotics Summit &amp; Expo.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Robotics Summit &amp; Expo 2024 Preview\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hx_S8btkUQE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agility Robotics&#8217; Digit is shifting the goalposts for humanoid robots by taking them out of research labs and into the real world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":578618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rbr50_analysis":"","rbr50_state":"","rbr50_country":"","rbr50_description":"","rbr50_numemps":"","rbr50_text_taxonomy_radio":null,"rbr50_text_taxonomy_select":"","rbr50_url":"","rbr50_yearfounded":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2717,2221,1388,1401,2012],"tags":[2055,2965],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Agility Robotics&#039; 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