Agility Robotics, Maker of Humanoid Bots, Shows Off Its ‘RoboFab’

During a visit last month to the world’s first humanoid robot factory, the latest edition of Agility Robotics Inc.’s bot lay flat on a table. There were shiny, stainless-steel actuators at its shoulder and hip joints, along with collections of circuits and sensors destined for the head and torso, all connected by neatly ordered sets of wire. It looked eerily similar to a human nervous system.

The robot was missing its limbs, part of a prototyping process to validate the design before workers install the hardware into the upcoming generation of Digit, the company’s teal and metal-gray bot.