--- description: Find out why Agility Robotics Digit is one of the best inventions of 2024 title: Agility Robotics Digit: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta219a82d560c395a/698a8a1ae6e84aed982b80e1/Digit-Solo.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 30, 2024 # Blue Collar Robot by [Chris Stokel-Walker](/author/chris-stokel-walker/) ## Chris Stokel-Walker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Jo Whaley for TIME Finding workers for physical tasks in manufacturing and logistics is getting tricky. “There’s over a million jobs open today \[in the U.S.\] that can’t be filled,” says Peggy Johnson, CEO of Agility Robotics. That’s where Agility’s humanoid bot Digit, trained by AI to carry out tasks, comes in. Digits are already working in a facility owned by third-party logistics provider GXO and elsewhere, including Amazon, where [trials were announced in 2023](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/amazon-introduces-new-robotics-solutions "undefined"). “We are the first company to deploy a humanoid robot that's actually getting paid to do work,” Johnson says. (Johnson estimates the robot will "return investment in less than two years.") So far, Digit works fenced off from human colleagues for safety purposes, but Johnson hopes the bot will be working right alongside humans by late 2025. **Correction, Oct. 31** _The original version of this article incorrectly cited Johnson on the amount GXO pays Agility; Johnson said the two-year return on investment for the robot is based on the alternative of a human working for $30 an hour, not that GXO paid $30 an hour to use the robot._ These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094773/agility-robotics-digit/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094773/agility-robotics-digit/"},"headline":"Agility Robotics Digit: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024","datePublished":"2024-10-30T11:06:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T11:54:31.146Z","description":"Find out why Agility Robotics Digit is one of the best inventions of 2024","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094773/agility-robotics-digit/","keywords":["Tech","E-Commerce","list","franchise","Magazine","best inventions"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta219a82d560c395a/698a8a1ae6e84aed982b80e1/Digit-Solo.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Chris Stokel-Walker","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/chris-stokel-walker/"}],"creator":"Chris Stokel-Walker","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta219a82d560c395a/698a8a1ae6e84aed982b80e1/Digit-Solo.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094773/agility-robotics-digit/","name":"Agility Robotics Digit: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"2024 Best Inventions: Digit","description":"Digit is a humanoid robot trained by AI to carry out physical tasks in manufacturing and logistics","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/A7SwvpeE/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2024-10-29T19:07:32.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/A7SwvpeE.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094773/agility-robotics-digit/","duration":"PT1M41S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094773/agility-robotics-digit/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```