Toyota Expands Use of Humanoid Robot Digit After Successful Pilot
- Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada has signed a commercial agreement with Agility Robotics to deploy the humanoid robot Digit following a successful pilot.
- The Robots-as-a-Service deal will introduce Digit into manufacturing, supply chain, and logistics operations at Toyota’s Canadian facilities.
Agility Robotics has signed a commercial agreement with Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada to deploy its humanoid robot, Digit, in Toyota’s automotive production facilities. After a successful pilot, Toyota will begin using Digit across manufacturing, supply chain, and logistics operations at its Canadian plants under a Robots-as-a-Service agreement.
The pilot phase allowed Toyota to evaluate Digit alongside other robotic systems before selecting it for deployment. Company leadership said the rollout is aimed at improving the team member experience and increasing operational efficiency. Both companies will continue assessing additional use cases where robots and AI can automate repetitive and physically demanding work on production lines, with the goal of reducing strain and improving safety for employees.
Digit is a general-purpose humanoid robot made for logistics and manufacturing work, and Agility Arc is a cloud automation platform for deploying and managing fleets of Digits. TMMC joins a growing number of Fortune 500 companies deploying Agility’s humanoid robots across the globe, including GXO, Schaeffler, and Amazon. Peggy Johnson, CEO of Agility Robotics, said the company’s next generation of Digit will be “the first cooperatively safe humanoid robot to work alongside people,” allowing companies like Toyota to scale their use of humanoids well beyond what is possible today.
🌀 Tom’s Take:
Moving from pilot to production is a big milestone. When a manufacturer moves a humanoid robot into standard operations, it reflects operational confidence, not experimentation.
Source: Business Wire / Agility Robotics
