{"id":172274,"date":"2023-09-18T16:24:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T21:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/robofab-is-ready-to-build-10000-humanoid-robots-per-year"},"modified":"2023-09-18T16:24:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T21:24:37","slug":"robofab-is-ready-to-build-10000-humanoid-robots-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/robofab-is-ready-to-build-10000-humanoid-robots-per-year","title":{"rendered":"RoboFab is ready to build 10,000 humanoid robots per year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robofab-is-ready-to-build-10000-humanoid-robots-per-year2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humanoid robots are pretty cool, and <a href=\"https:\/\/agilityrobotics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agility Robotics<\/a>\u2018bipedal robot Digit is up there in terms of advanced tech (<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/03\/20\/meet-the-new-face-and-hands-of-agility-robotics-digit\/\">it even has a face<\/a>!). Today, the company announced it\u2019s getting ready to crank up its RoboFab, which can build more than 10,000 Digits per year. Obvious Skynet jokes aside, I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.<\/p>\n<p>The factory will be built in Salem, Oregon, and the company tells TechCrunch it started initial construction of the 70,000-square-foot robot factory last year, and it is set to open later this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe opening of our factory marks a pivotal moment in the history of robotics: the beginning of the mass production of commercial humanoid robots,\u201d said Agility Robotics\u2019 co-founder and CEO Damion Shelton. \u201cWe built Digit to solve difficult problems in today\u2019s workforce like injuries, burnout, high turnover and unfillable labor gaps, with the ultimate vision of enabling humans to be more human. When you\u2019re building new technology to make society better, the most important milestone is when you\u2019re able to mass produce that technology at a scale where it can have a real, widespread impact.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanoid robots are pretty cool, and Agility Robotics\u2018bipedal robot Digit is up there in terms of advanced tech (it even has a face!). Today, the company announced it\u2019s getting ready to crank up its RoboFab, which can build more than 10,000 Digits per year. Obvious Skynet jokes aside, I, for one, welcome our new robotic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}