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title: 'Agility Robotics’ Digit graces the cover of TIME magazine'
date: '2024-10-30T17:25:16-07:00'
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# Agility Robotics’ Digit graces the cover of TIME magazine

[![](https://i0.wp.com/siliconflorist.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/agility-robotics-digit-time-magazine.png?resize=925%2C514&ssl=1)](https://time.com/7099118/how-we-picked-best-inventions-2024/)Another day, another interesting moment for Oregon’s [Agility Robotics](https://agilityrobotics.com/). This — ahem — time, the company’s bipedal robot Digit is the cover model for the [TIME magazine “Best inventions of 2024” issue](https://time.com/7099118/how-we-picked-best-inventions-2024/). (Also making the cut was [Portland’s Keen with its Targhee IV hiking boot](https://time.com/7094745/keen-targhee-iv/).)

> The result is a list of 200 groundbreaking inventions (and 50 special mention inventions)—including the world’s largest computer chip, a humanoid robot joining the workforce, and a bioluminescent houseplant—that are changing how we live, work, play, and think about what’s possible.

[Specifically highlighting](https://time.com/7094773/agility-robotics-digit/):

> Finding workers for physical tasks in manufacturing and logistics is getting tricky. “There’s over a million jobs open today \[in the U.S.\] that can’t be filled,” says Peggy Johnson, CEO of Agility Robotics. That’s where Agility’s humanoid bot Digit, trained by AI to carry out tasks, comes in. Digits are already working in a facility owned by third-party logistics provider GXO and elsewhere, including Amazon, where [trials were announced in 2023](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/amazon-introduces-new-robotics-solutions). “We are the first company to deploy a humanoid robot that’s actually getting paid to do work,” Johnson says. (GXO pays Agility [$30 an hour to use each Digit](https://www.therobotreport.com/heres-what-it-could-cost-to-hire-a-digit-humanoid/).) So far, Digit works fenced off from human colleagues for safety purposes, but Johnson hopes the bot will be working right alongside humans by late 2025.

For more, read the [“Best inventions of 2024.”](https://time.com/7099118/how-we-picked-best-inventions-2024/)

*(h/t [Dylan Boyd](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dtboyd_really-cool-to-see-an-oregon-co-agility-robotics-activity-7257420883135258625-wGsY?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop))*

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