Peggy, CEO of Agility Robotics, discusses Digit’s commercial warehouse work and the role of AI and safety in scaling humanoid robots with a Bloomberg Live host.
Peggy says better batteries, improved motors, and AI-assisted skill training have brought commercial use closer. She describes a planned 10-to-1 work-to-charge ratio: ten minutes of charging for 100 minutes of operation. A human-shaped design fits facilities built around people, including narrow aisles, high shelves, stairs, and uneven floors.
Agility can change Digit’s grippers to suit the job, from rubber-ended paddles to simpler two-finger tools; a five-finger hand is available when needed. Peggy says Digit’s teal color and visible head help workers feel more comfortable around it, even though the head is not technically necessary.
Agility combines traditional control systems for balance with reinforcement learning for skills such as picking up and setting down objects. Peggy says the company uses Gemini as a foundation model but designed Digit so models can be changed. Language models also help teach facility workflows, which can bring a new site online in about one to one and a half days.
Digit has worked at GXO for about a year, moving Spanx orders from autonomous mobile robots to conveyor belts. Peggy says it handles repetitive transfers between automation systems that were not designed to connect, in a labor market with roughly one million such openings in the U.S. She says current deployments remain inside work cells, while Agility is preparing demonstrations of robots working near people.
Peggy calls safety the main requirement for robots entering customer facilities and homes. She says Agility is helping develop U.S. humanoid robot regulations and argues that robots must meet demanding facility standards before broader use. She expects automation and humanoids to help address labor shortages as manufacturing returns to the U.S.
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