Agility Robotics Named to TIME’s List of Best Inventions of 2024

SALEM, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Agility Robotics, creator of the leading bipedal Mobile Manipulation Robot (MMR) Digit^Ⓡ, was included in TIME’s annual list of the Best Inventions, which features 200 extraordinary innovations changing our lives. Featured on the magazine’s cover, Digit is the first humanoid robot to be commercially deployed as part of a multi-year agreement with GXO, the world’s largest pure-play contract logistics provider.

“Humanoid robots are a key solution to filling current labor shortages; they can perform dangerous and physically taxing tasks that make many of these open jobs incredibly difficult to fill,” said Peggy Johnson, Agility Robotics CEO. “We’re honored to be recognized by TIME for our work advancing humanoid robotics and being the first company to commercially deploy a humanoid for real work.”

To compile this year's list, TIME solicited nominations from TIME editors and correspondents around the world, and through an online application process, paying special attention to growing fields—such as health care, AI, and green energy. TIME then evaluated each contender on a number of key factors, including originality, efficacy, ambition, and impact.

Of the new list, TIME's editors write: “The result is a list of 200 groundbreaking inventions (and 50 special mention inventions)—including the world’s largest computer chip, a humanoid robot joining the workforce, and a bioluminescent houseplant—that are changing how we live, work, play, and think about what’s possible.”

See the full list here: time.com/best-inventions-2024

About Agility Robotics

Headquartered in Salem, Oregon, with offices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Palo Alto, California, Agility Robotics’ mission is to build robot partners that augment the human workforce, ultimately enabling humans to be more human. Agility’s groundbreaking bipedal Mobile Manipulation Robot (MMR) Digit is the first multi-purpose, human-centric robot that is made for work™.