--- title: Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla's backyard description: Agility Robotics is opening a 60,000-square-foot training facility in Fremont, California — just miles from Tesla's planned Optimus manufacturing site. Unlike... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/agility-robotics-plants-its-flag-in-tesla-s-backyard-frinbtard twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla's backyard | daily.dev og:description: Agility Robotics is opening a 60,000-square-foot training facility in Fremont, California — just miles from Tesla's planned Optimus manufacturing site. Unlike... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/agility-robotics-plants-its-flag-in-tesla-s-backyard-frinbtard og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/FriNBTard.png og:image:alt: Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla's backyard og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla's backyard **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Agility Robotics is opening a 60,000-square-foot training facility in Fremont, California — just miles from Tesla's planned Optimus manufacturing site. Unlike Tesla, Agility already has a commercially deployed humanoid robot, Digit, generating revenue for customers like Amazon, GXO, and Toyota. The company has secured $300 million in contract orders and is pursuing a reverse merger to become the first pure-play humanoid robot company on public markets. Agility takes a cautious approach to AI, keeping safety-critical systems outside generative AI while using it to scale robot programming. A new Digit v5 is expected this fall, capable of operating alongside humans. The company is focused on manufacturing and logistics rather than consumer use. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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