Agility Robotics Opens 60,000-Square-Foot Fremont Hub for Digit Physical AI Development

The Bay Area site will house nearly 200 existing and planned employees across hardware, AI and machine learning software, and field operations, complementing Digit production in Salem, Oregon.

Agility Robotics has opened a 60,000-square-foot facility in Fremont, California, creating a Bay Area development hub for the AI and software systems behind its Digit humanoid robot and its enterprise deployments.

The company said the Fremont site will be used to train, test, and advance the physical AI capabilities that allow Digit to learn new tasks and operate in customer environments. Teams at the facility will work across hardware engineering, AI and machine learning software, and field operations.

Agility said it expects the site to house nearly 200 existing and new employees. The company did not provide a breakdown of current versus planned headcount, nor did it specify the date when operations began beyond the July 17 announcement.

The facility complements Agility’s RoboFab manufacturing operation in Salem, Oregon. In practice, that splits the company’s footprint between Oregon manufacturing and Bay Area capability development, a structure intended to shorten the loop between AI development, robot testing, field feedback, and customer deployment work.

“Being in the heart of Silicon Valley brings us into one of the world’s leading AI talent and innovation ecosystems, allowing us to develop new capabilities for Digit faster and put them to work for customers immediately,” Agility CEO Peggy Johnson said.

Agility identified Schaeffler, GXO, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, and Mercado Libre as companies with active Digit deployments. The company said the new site will support development of capabilities for repetitive and physically demanding work in warehouse and manufacturing settings, with the robot operating alongside human workers.

The company also said it has secured more than $300 million in multiyear orders for Digit v5, subject to contractual milestones, and has a pipeline of more than 30 customers. Those figures are company claims and were not independently verified in the announcement. Agility did not disclose the number of robots covered by the orders, deployment volumes at named customers, or the technical specifications of Digit v5, such as payload, battery runtime, or degrees of freedom.

For operators, the Fremont expansion is more significant as an engineering and deployment investment than as a new robot launch. Humanoid programs often face their hardest work after a customer selects a platform: task definition, perception tuning, motion behavior, safety validation, fleet monitoring, and integrating the robot into existing operations. Housing AI, hardware, and field teams in one development site could help Agility respond faster to those practical issues.

The announcement also adds to Fremont’s role in the Silicon Valley robotics labor market, where companies compete for robotics software, machine learning, controls, and systems-integration talent. Fremont Mayor Raj Salwan said the facility brings nearly 200 jobs and continued investment in the city.

Agility is expanding its physical footprint while pursuing a planned public listing through a business combination with Churchill Capital Corp XI. The company has described the transaction as a path to becoming a publicly listed U.S. pure-play humanoid robotics company, but the announcement does not establish a timetable for completion or confirm that the listing will close.