Agility Robotics opened a 60,000-square-foot training center in Fremont, California — a short drive from Tesla's factory — where its Digit humanoid learns warehouse skills in field-like environments, TechCrunch reported on July 17. The location is a deliberate flag planted in the heart of the humanoid race.
Training for the warehouse
The facility is built to rehearse Digit against realistic logistics scenarios — moving totes, navigating aisles, handling the messy edge cases that separate a demo from a deployment. Agility co-founders Damion Shelton and Jonathan Hurst, with CEO Peggy Johnson, have pitched Digit as a working robot rather than a stage prop.
A real order book
The numbers back the pitch. Agility says it holds roughly $300 million in contract orders, with Digit already deployed at Amazon, GXO, Schaeffler and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, and more than 30 customers in deployment talks. At one logistics site, the company says Digit has moved more than 100,000 totes — a rare hard usage figure in a field heavy on promises.
The next model
A fifth-generation Digit with human-sensing capabilities — the ability to detect and safely work around people — is expected in fall 2026. That upgrade matters for shared warehouse floors, where robots and human workers increasingly operate side by side and safety certification gates real-world rollout.
Going public
Agility is also pursuing a reverse merger to go public later this year, a faster route to the capital that scaling a hardware business demands — and one that would make it among the first pure-play humanoid companies on public markets. Between a training center, a $300M backlog and a listing plan, the company is positioning itself as the humanoid maker furthest along the path from spectacle to industrial tool — and doing it, pointedly, in Tesla's backyard.