Agility Robotics opens a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont

1:19 PM · July 18, 2026

Agility Robotics is opening a new training center for its Digit humanoid robots in Fremont, California, according to TechCrunch, a deliberate choice of location given that Tesla builds its own competing Optimus humanoid robot in the same city. The new facility will be used to train Digit robots on warehouse and logistics tasks before they are deployed to customer sites, and to demonstrate the robots' capabilities directly to prospective enterprise customers considering humanoid robots for material handling and similar physical work. The move reflects how crowded the humanoid robotics field has become, with companies increasingly competing not just on the robots' underlying capabilities but on proximity to the concentration of engineering talent, investors, and potential customers clustered in the Bay Area. Agility, which has focused specifically on warehouse and logistics use cases for Digit rather than trying to build a general purpose humanoid for every possible task, is betting that a narrower, more commercially proven use case can help it compete against better funded rivals building more general purpose humanoid platforms. Locating a flagship facility in Tesla's home city is as much a statement of confidence as it is a practical talent and customer access decision.