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Want a humanoid in your factory? Here’s how much one could cost you.

Want a humanoid in your factory? Here’s how much one could cost you.
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Agility Robotics said its robot can cost customers $200,000 and break even with their purchase within 1.1 years. Patricia de Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Images Agility Robotics has real-world deployments of humanoid robots that move and pick up totes. The company said in its filing that one robot could cost a customer about $200,000. Agility's next-gen robot could operate for 20 hours within a 24-hour period, the company said. How much would it cost to employ a humanoid robot in a factory? Agility Robotics gave us one of the clearest answers yet. In a securities filing on Tuesday, the Oregon-based robotics company provided a glimpse into the economics behind its two-legged robot, Digit . Under one business model outlined in the filing, a customer buying the company's next-generation Digit v5 would pay about $200,000 for the robot itself, plus a roughly $20,000 onetime deployment fee.

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