How Humanoid Robots Joined This Factory's Workforce
The Wall Street Journal·2026-03-16 17:00

This robot is named Digit, and it's coming for your jobs, but just the boring ones. At the Sheffller Auto Parts plant in Shiraz, South Carolina, Digit carries 25 lb baskets of bearing components to an industrial washing machine over and over and over again. This is Chef Humanoid Robotics President David Kerr.So the humanoid is behind the Plex right now because it's one of the first installations that we have and it's up to us and Agility to make sure that it's safe for the workers and safe for the environme ...