Agility Robotics has opened a new 60,000-square-foot facility in Fremont, California, dedicated to accelerating the development of what the company calls Physical AI for its Digit humanoid robot — planting a research flag in the same city that houses Tesla's flagship factory.
Agility Robotics · Physical AI
Agility Plants a Robot Flag in Tesla's Backyard
A new 60,000-sq-ft Fremont hub becomes the Bay Area brain that trains, tests and refines skills for the Digit humanoid — then pushes them to robots already working on customer floors.
60K
sq ft in Fremont — new AI development hub
$2.5B
valuation in planned SPAC merger
$300M+
multi-year bookings secured
30+
companies in the sales pipeline
A two-site strategy
Separating high-volume production in Oregon from AI research in Silicon Valley.
RoboFab · Salem, OR
Manufacturing base · 10,000 units/yr peak · 500+ staff at full scale
Fremont, CA
Software & capability hub · trains, tests, refines Digit's skills
How new skills reach the fleet
Fremont trains & tests new skills
→
Refined & validated capability
→
Pushed to Digits at customer sites
Digit already runs at Amazon, GXO Logistics, Toyota (Canada), Schaeffler and Mercado Libre — via a robots-as-a-service model.
Agility's edge
Track record of shipping robots to external customers and running them in live warehouse operations — a lead in real-world deployment.
Tesla's edge
In-house scale and AI infrastructure, with potential to deploy large numbers of Optimus units inside its own Fremont factory.
The bet
Pairing an Oregon humanoid factory with a Silicon Valley AI center — plus expanding safety-systems work with NVIDIA — to iterate faster on Digit. The edge holds only if research gains reach robots on customer floors quickly.
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