Agility Robotics

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Agility Robotics is a private American robotics company based in Salem, Oregon. It started in 2015 as a spin-off from Oregon State University’s Dynamic Robotics Lab, founded by Jonathan Hurst, Damion Shelton, and Mikhail Jones. The team developed humanoid robots starting with Cassie, a lightweight biped used for research that later set a Guinness World Record for the fastest 100-meter run by a biped. In 2017 they launched Digit, a full-size humanoid with a torso, arms, and perception systems, sold to academic labs. Ford partnered with Agility to explore last-mile delivery using Digit and early autonomous vehicles. In 2021 Digit was expanded for warehouse and bulk material handling, and a newer Digit version debuted in 2023 at ProMat. The company also opened RoboFab, a humanoid robotics factory in Salem. Late 2023 brought partnerships to deploy Digit in Amazon facilities and with GXO Logistics at the Spanx facility near Atlanta, Georgia. In 2024, GXO and Agility announced the first Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) contract to use Digit at Spanx.