🆕 @agilityrobotics is now following @BloombergTV Previously followed by: @boeing, @arkinvest, @aicha2evans, @oracle, @wolfejosh & 4 more (🤖👁️: need more perspective about this)

Humanoid robotics is moving into deployment infrastructure. Agility Robotics @agilityrobotics opened a 60,000-square-foot Fremont facility to train, test and improve the AI capabilities behind Digit, its humanoid robot for logistics and manufacturing environments. The site complements Agility’s RoboFab manufacturing operation in Oregon. Fremont will focus on software, new skills, customer workflows, field operations and safety validation. Agility says Digit is already active with Schaeffler, GXO, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada and Mercado Libre, with more than $300M in conditional multi-year orders for Digit v5. For Physical AI, the infrastructure around the robot may become as important as the robot itself. Source: Agility Robotics / Business Insider

Digit lost its bird legs! 🦿 @agilityrobotics released Digit 5 today, and the most visible change is the knees. The ostrich-style backwards legs are gone, replaced with human-like ones. Jonathan Hurst, co-founder and chief robot officer, was explicit that this wasn't a move toward looking more human: 💬 "The previous leg configuration was really optimized for very good walking and running. The new configuration is optimized for lifting heavy things and getting up and down off the ground a lot." The same logic shows up in the hands, where the argument gets I would say even sharper. He says general-purpose hands don't exist, aren't on the market, and aren't coming soon. His evidence is Cybathlon, where amputees compete at manipulation tasks using prosthetics. The winner two years running used a single-degree-of-freedom parallel-jaw gripper with one rotation at the wrist, beating competitors with five-fingered hands. So Digit 5 runs a two-finger gripper, swappable through ISO-standard mounting flanges: → Repeatable lifts up to 22.7 kg on proprietary cycloidal actuators, covering single-person lift tasks in OSHA-regulated facilities → 90 minutes of work, 9 minutes to full charge. A 10:1 run-to-charge ratio, up from 2:1 on Digit 4, which puts it past 20 working hours in a 24-hour day → 129 kg, 1.81 m tall, reaching to 2.2 m, up from 1.68 m → 360° person detection with no fixed safety zones. It slows, stops, or sits down and cuts motor power before anyone can touch it, with an independent safety controller overseeing the response First commercial availability outside North America, starting with the EU and UK, CE mark expected. Early access in H1 2027, general availability by the end of 2027. ~~  ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Robotics Expert on How Robots Learn: At First Much Slower Than Humans, Then Infinitely Scalable @agilityrobotics Jonathan Hurst: “I don't believe that there's a singularity. I do believe that things are going to get better and better. Think of it more like a snowball picking up steam going down a hill. But the reason that it's snowballing like this is because people are putting money, and resources, and engineering time, and engineering effort in as they explore everything and start to figure all of this stuff out. Humans, for example, we've evolved to learn. We are very good at learning, and it takes very little data to show us how to do something, and then we practice and practice, iterate. Robots are not very good at learning yet. Robots take so much more data and so many more examples than a person. We're still figuring out how to teach robots how to learn. But one of the benefits that robots have in the long run is they have Wi-Fi. When you learn how to play the violin, you can't just load that to somebody else and then they know how to play the violin based on your learnings. Robots will be able to do that. @Jason: “One robot learns to play violin, all robots know how to play a violin.” Jonathan Hurst: “Or all robots of that type know how to play the violin, right? And then minor variations for the next type and the next piece of hardware.” ------------------------------ Thanks to our partners for making this possible! Most advertisers have never heard of the platform with an $11B annual run rate in ad spend. @AppLovin Ads. 1B+ daily active users, full-screen video ads watched for a median of 35 seconds, and businesses are profitably spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a day on it. Now open to everyone. Sign up at If your work depends on conversations — meetings, deal flow, interviews, customer calls — @PLAUDAI helps you capture and organize everything with highly accurate AI-generated notes that are not just simple summaries, but also highlight pain points, key decisions, next steps, and customizable summary templates. Check out Plaud at and use code ALLIN for up to 10% off! Which is also available on Amazon: (Code: ALLIN10X)

Home robots make the highlight reels. Factories make the case. Our CTO Pras Velagapudi on the "islands of automation" — the manual gaps between automated steps — and why humanoids earn their place there first. Thank you, @theDeepView @natrubio__ #AgilityRobotics# #DigitRobot# Read more:

Virtuals Weekly: Butler Comes to the Web Virtuals App is now on the web: Butler reads signal, weighs the risk, and preps the trade so it’s one swipe away. Across the ecosystem: staking for AI evaluators, trade memory for agents, token-gated holder chats, and an XMAQUINA portfolio company now listed on Nasdaq. VIRTUALS 🟩 Virtuals App, now on the web: Butler reads signal, from CT to onchain data, weighs the risk and brings you the trade ready for a single swipe. You make the final call. Closed beta, invite-only: 🟩 Security news, handled: when news hits something you hold, Butler checks your exposure, weighs the risk and lines up the trade to cut it. ECOSYSTEM 🟩 @xmaquina portfolio company @agilityrobotics began trading on Nasdaq, the DAO’s first to reach public markets after it invested at a $1.75B valuation. BOT-16 also passed with 99.75% approval for an allocation in @sundayrobotics. 🟩 @reppo launched staking that unlocks up to $1 a day in Eval API credits. More than 100,000 people have signed up to evaluate AI on Reppo, and its evaluator nodes grew 21% in a week. 🟩 @LighthouseWeb3 launched Lighthouse Agents, turning every trade on Robinhood Chain and @Lighter_xyz into a memory agents can answer from, and completed its first buyback of 667,000 $LLL from fees and revenue. 🟩 @itsovercall and @LighthouseWeb3 opened token-gated holder clubs in Virtuals App: group chats with early news and team updates for holders who also trade in the app. 🟩 @myrad_hq passed @ArAIstotle to become the #2# datanet on @reppo, with 87M [unit] in traded volume of zk-verified human data. 🟩 @ethy_agent previewed V3 SocialFi: follow traders, copy their strategies, or publish your own and take a share of fees when others run it live. V3 is set to land this month. 🟩 @ProjectVEXai agents have generated $6.3M in trading volume on Robinhood Chain, with VEX on Cloud almost ready. 🟩 @useOttoAI opened the Otto Lab for its Robinhood Chain hook experiments. Agents paid for 2,257 of its X searches in 12 hours, placing it among the three most-called X searches on Coinbase’s x402 Bazaar. 🟩 @WizzHQ opened Velocity to its first 15 waitlist users. It checks whether news is real, new and safe to trade, then trades on Hyperliquid with a stop-loss, with more batches before going public. 🟩 @wardenprotocol brought Solana to Token Terminal and Warden MCP, so you can buy Solana tokens with USDC or ETH from an EVM chain, no SOL needed. 🟩 @sibyl_labs_ made Sibyl Memory fully compatible with Grok, with early tests showing users spending about 50% fewer tokens right after setup. 🟩 @PlayKindra added four new callings and four new Originals with 96 stages, and HoodExplorer token pages now show who can pull a token’s liquidity and how much is burned or locked.

This Week in Virtuals: The Next BlackRock Is an AI Senate Occupy is live on @base, funded by the trenches. Trading builds stock treasuries, holders choose the AI Senate that directs them, and companies get a new holder that shows up. Virtuals is also live on @arc, where agents and builders can now tokenise. Here's what shipped: VIRTUALS 🟩 Virtuals launched Occupy on @base, where different tokens build shared stock treasuries and holders elect AI Senates to put that capital to work. 🟩 Virtuals is now live on @arc, so builders can tokenise agents on the Arc chain for co-ownership of productive actors. ECOSYSTEM 🟩 @itsovercall launched $OVER on Robinhood Chain with a public testnet where traders draw channels on live price and settle onchain. 🟩 @KarmaWallet shipped Karma V2 on iOS to trade crypto and earn stocks, then added limit orders on Robinhood Chain two days later. 🟩 @ProjectVEXai went live on @arc and is teaming with @Lighter_xyz to move its agents from spot positions into autonomous perps. 🟩 @wardenprotocol took $HALO beyond Base with a Robinhood Chain listing and bridge routes, and @arc tokens now move on its terminal. 🟩 @sibyl_labs_ closed its memory hackathon with prizes for 20 teams, including accelerator places backed by @base and @virtuals_io. 🟩 @reppo turned on Orquestra lite to onboard new agents and lined up its first reward token datanet, seeded with 5M tokens to mine. 🟩 @ethy_agent launched Multi-Asset Strategies across MAG7, crypto majors and semis, with staking now unlocking subscriptions. 🟩 @Wall3_RL launched Company Intelligence, opening the same research that guides its fund trades across 45 listed companies. 🟩 @PlayKindra is now a @telegram Mini App with three regional worlds, using your Telegram account as login, no wallet needed. 🟩 @cybercentry put 10 verification services on Arc Mainnet through Virtuals ACP, giving Arc builders one integration point. 🟩 @myrad_hq switched on passive staking and burned another 2M MYRAD, taking the running total to 1.2% of supply gone for good. 🟩 @OpenGradient put GPT Image 2.5, Fable 5.1 and Grok Imagine 2 behind its private stack, so nobody can read what you send. 🟩 @commonsmade closed its $60,000 creative competition with AI token spend nearing 20 billion, and named four judges to pick winners. 🟩 @bleeep_xyz added onchain spot swaps to its agent workspace and named @Lighter_xyz its first perp venue, with more integrations planned. ROBOTICS 🟩 @xmaquina holds a position in @agilityrobotics through BOT-04, and a proposed SPAC now puts the DAO on a path to public liquidity. 🟩 @FabricFND ran a closed room session in Hong Kong across foundation models, data engines, hardware and on-site robot deployment. 🟩 @exylos_ai records hands and body in 3D through VR capture, giving robot training data the structure plain egocentric video lacks.

AGILITY ROBOTICS EXPECTS ABOUT $465 MILLION FROM ITS SPAC DEAL AND A NASDAQ DEBUT AS AGLT ON NOV. 5 The humanoid robot maker's tie-up with Churchill Capital XI $CCXI includes a $201 million PIPE led by Foxconn and should close Nov. 4, pending a shareholder vote, per the company.

Agility Robotics unveiled a new humanoid that is designed to safely work in close proximity to people, a milestone for an industry that typically separates robots from human workers. CEO Peggy Johnson says the technology can also help address labor shortages by stepping into roles companies are struggling to fill