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Toyota Canada Signs Commercial Deal With Agility Robotics to Deploy Digit Humanoids in Auto Plants
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Toyota Canada Signs Commercial Deal With Agility Robotics to Deploy Digit Humanoids in Auto Plants

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada — Toyota's largest manufacturing operation outside Japan — has signed a commercial agreement with Agility Robotics to deploy Digit humanoid robots at its Ontario assembly plants after a successful pilot program. Digit will handle repetitive, physically demanding tasks in manufacturing, supply chain, and logistics operations, freeing employees for higher-value work. TMMC joins GXO, Schaeffler, and Amazon as Fortune 500 companies commercially deploying Digit. CEO Peggy Johnson said the next generation of Digit will be the first cooperatively safe humanoid robot designed to work directly alongside people, allowing customers like Toyota to scale humanoid use beyond current limits. The deal marks a shift from pilot testing to real commercial deployment in automotive manufacturing — one of the toughest environments for humanoid robots.

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