Inside the world’s first humanoid factory, where robots could eventually build themselves

About 30 miles from the company’s headquarters in Oregon, Agility Robotics has built “RoboFab,“ a facility designed to scale up the production of its bipedal robot, Digit. It is the first factory dedicated to building humanoid robots, according to the privately held company, which has already begun testing Digit with high-profile clients like Amazon and GXO Logistics. “It’s been in production for about a year. The capacity of this 70,000 square foot facility is 10,000 units a year. We will roll up to that over the next couple of years,“ said Peggy Johnson, CEO of Agility Robotics, in an interview with CNBC Tech: The Edge. Digit was designed to take up repetitive and mundane manufacturing tasks, helping to close the labor gap in the logistics sector. “There’s over a million jobs in the logistics area alone that are going unfilled. Robots like Digit can step in and take those tasks off their hands,“ Johnson said. “What we’re s