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Toyota Canada Expands Digit Humanoid Deployment After Successful Year-Long Pilot
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Toyota Canada Expands Digit Humanoid Deployment After Successful Year-Long Pilot

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC), Toyota's largest manufacturing operation outside Japan, is expanding its deployment of Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid from 3 to 10 units after a successful year-long pilot. The robots load and unload totes from automated tuggers at TMMC's Ontario plants, which assemble over 535,000 vehicles annually. Toyota and Agility plan to explore additional use cases across manufacturing, supply chain, and logistics — automating repetitive, physically taxing tasks to reduce strain and increase safety for employees. Agility's CEO noted the next-generation Digit will be the first cooperatively safe humanoid robot designed to work alongside people.

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