Mercado Libre, the leading commerce and fintech ecosystem in Latin America, today announced a commercial agreement with Agility Robotics, creator of the leading humanoid robot Digit®. This partnership will integrate Agility Robotics’ revolutionary Digit humanoid robot into Mercado Libre’s facility in San Antonio, Texas. Digit will initially focus on tasks that support commerce fulfillment, with the companies planning to explore additional use cases where AI-powered humanoids can augment logistics operations across Mercado Libre’s warehouses in Latin America. Additionally, the collaboration aims to explore how automating tasks that are difficult to recruit for, especially those that are highly repetitive and physically taxing, could increase ergonomic safety for Mercado Libre team members, reduce labor gaps, and increase productivity — ultimately freeing employees to perform more value-added work. Agility Robotics’ Digit is the first humanoid robot commercially deployed to do real work in industrial settings today, not someday in the future. Standing at human scale, Digit walks, lifts, and moves material and totes through existing aisles and workflows, slotting into standard facilities without costly redesigns or infrastructure changes. Already commercially deployed, Digit has moved over 100,000 totes in live commerce operations, proving its reliability, safety, and value on the warehouse floor.​​

Full report : Mercado Libre has signed an agreement to integrate Agility Robotics’ Digit humanoid into its facility in San Antonio, Texas.

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