Salem-based Agility Robotics is expanding its national operations with plans for a 50,000-square-foot facility in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as demand grows for its humanoid robots. The announcement comes as the company prepares to bring its next-generation Digit 5 robot to commercial customers.
For Salem, the expansion carries a local connection. Agility's RoboFab facility remains the company's manufacturing and operations center, where its Digit robots are assembled before being deployed to industrial customers.
Announced October 21, the Pittsburgh expansion will add approximately 35,000 square feet to Agility's existing footprint in the city. The new facility will focus on artificial intelligence, software development, customer support and servicing robots already working in commercial facilities.
The company also reported more than $300 million in multiyear orders for Digit 5, a figure it first disclosed earlier this year. Those orders remain subject to contractual milestones and do not represent revenue the company has already collected.
Agility says its customer base is growing across automotive manufacturing, consumer goods and agriculture. Its robots are already operating with companies including GXO, Schaeffler and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada.
Earlier this week, Agility also announced a commercial agreement with agricultural equipment manufacturer AGCO to explore using Digit robots at a Kansas manufacturing facility. That pilot is expected to begin in 2027.
The growing customer base is creating a need for more than manufacturing capacity. Once robots are deployed, customers need ongoing maintenance, software updates and technical support.
Agility's new Pittsburgh location will serve as its East Coast service center, complementing services already provided through RoboFab in Salem.
"Real-world deployments are one of our most important sources of learning," Agility Chief Technology Officer Pras Velagapudi said in the company's October 21 announcement.
RoboFab, a 70,000-square-foot facility in Salem, was designed to assemble as many as 10,000 humanoid robots annually at full capacity. That figure represents the factory's planned production capability, not its current output.
The company has not announced additional hiring or manufacturing investment in Salem as part of the Pittsburgh expansion.
A second announcement on October 22 added another piece to Agility's growth plans. The company said it would expand its collaboration with NVIDIA, using the technology company's IGX Thor computing platform in Digit 5. The partnership also involves additional work on robot safety systems ahead of broader commercial deployment.
Agility expects early access to Digit 5 to begin during the first half of 2027, with availability expanding over the following months.
The expansion comes as Agility prepares for another major business milestone: becoming publicly traded through a proposed merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI.
Churchill shareholders are scheduled to vote on that transaction November 2. If completed, Agility expects to trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol AGLT.
For now, Salem remains the company's manufacturing base as it builds the engineering, software and service network needed to support a growing number of robots working across the country.