Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC) has signed a commercial agreement with Agility Robotics to deploy its humanoid robot, Digit, in its facilities. Following a successful pilot, TMMC plans to use Digit to support employees in manufacturing, supply chain, and logistics operations.
Key takeaways
- Digit is a general-purpose humanoid robot designed for logistics and manufacturing tasks, capable of handling monotonous, process-automated work.
- The deployment aims to improve team member experience and increase operational efficiency, reducing strain and safety risks from repetitive, physically taxing tasks.
- Agility and TMMC will explore additional use cases where robots and AI can augment automotive production, freeing employees for more value-added work.
- Agility's solutions include Digit and Agility Arc, a cloud platform for managing fleets of robots, designed to integrate without costly retrofits.
TMMC joins other major companies deploying Agility's humanoids, including GXO, Schaeffler, and Amazon. Agility CEO Peggy Johnson highlighted that the next generation of Digit will be the first cooperatively safe humanoid robot, enabling scalable deployment alongside people.
Source: Robotics & Automation News (roboticsandautomationnews.com) · Published 2026-02-20 · “Toyota Canada to deploy Agility Robotics’ humanoid Digit in manufacturing operations”