TL;DR
The robot coworker is clocking in. Agility Robotics, whose two-legged Digit is the most commercially advanced humanoid, says more than 30 companies are now considering it, and it has disclosed over $300 million in multi-year orders for its next model, Digit 5, a robot designed to work safely near people. One of its customers, the logistics giant GXO, is adding two more warehouses to the robot's beat in early 2027, after Digit moved more than 100,000 plastic bins at a Georgia site. For people, the near-term change is in warehouses and factories, where humanoids could soon take the heavy, repetitive lifting off human shoulders; the same hardware, safety work and software are the groundwork any future home helper would need. Our odds that humanoids are in routine use in U.S. warehouses by 2028: 55%. For the full odds board and the timeline of breakthroughs from warehouse floor to front door, subscribe.
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