Overview
- Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada signed a commercial agreement with Agility Robotics after a year-long pilot, placing seven Digit robots on the RAV4 line in Woodstock, Ontario to handle parts supply.
- The humanoids move bins from storage racks, load components onto tuggers and conveyors, and off-load and stack empty containers to reduce physical strain on employees and address hard-to-fill roles.
- Toyota is renting the robots and using Agility’s Arc cloud platform to control, monitor and update the fleet, with Agility citing typical three-year contracts priced below comparable human labor.
- For now the robots operate in controlled zones due to safety and dexterity limits, as Agility develops a next-generation Digit intended for cooperative work alongside people and a higher payload of up to 25 kilograms.
- The rollout is among the earliest paid factory deployments of humanoids, reflecting broader industry trials by rivals such as Figure at BMW and efforts by Apptronik, Tesla and Boston Dynamics that remain largely in pilot stages.