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Agile ONE

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About Agile ONE

Agile ONE is Agile Robots' bipedal humanoid for manufacturing and logistics tasks. Its human-scale body combines articulated arms with 21-joint hands, integrated force and tactile sensing, cameras and lidar. A chest display, lights and speech provide interaction with nearby people. The platform is designed to move between industrial workstations and manipulate objects within existing production layouts.

Training combines simulated tasks, teleoperation, human demonstrations and industrial data to develop robot foundation models. At Hannover Messe in April 2026, Agile ONE assembled a personalised miniature robotic arm during a public demonstration. The humanoid is being developed within Agile Robots' wider system of industrial arms, mobile robots and factory software, with integration into coordinated production workflows as the intended operating model. Its demonstrated assembly work precedes broader industrial deployment.

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

  • Operating environments: Agile Robots booth at Hannover Messe 2026, Industrial settings
  • Dexterous manipulation

    Claimed - 2025-11-19 - Perform fine manipulation and tool-use tasks in industrial workflows. - environment: Industrial settings

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  • Pick and place

    Claimed - 2025-11-19 - Pick and place objects in industrial workflows. - environment: Industrial settings

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  • Robotic assembly

    Demonstrated - 2026-04-20 - Assemble miniature robotic arms at a live Hannover Messe demonstration. - environment: Agile Robots booth at Hannover Messe 2026

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  • Machine tending

    Claimed - 2025-11-19 - Tend production machinery in industrial workflows. - environment: Industrial settings

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Research

  • Gated Residual Body-Hand Coordination for Whole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation

    2026-09-16 - Research Publication - This simulation study coordinates frozen body and hand controllers with bounded residual corrections. Agile One morphology calibration and curated human motion support whole-body tracking, while held-out interaction motions test wrist and fingertip alignment.

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Timeline

  • Agile Robots and Hitachi agree Physical AI manufacturing partnership

    2026-09-29 - Partnership - The agreement covers robotic arms, mobile robots and Agile ONE, with AgileCore for simulation, control and orchestration. The partners plan to use Hitachi edge AI semiconductors and bring solutions to market through HMAX Industry and Agile customer channels. Longer-term work aims to coordinate multiple robots, machines and people across whole factory operations.

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  • Agile Robots demonstrates Agile ONE assembly at Hannover Messe

    2026-04-20 - Demonstration - Merz and Reiche each received a personalized miniature robotic arm assembled by the humanoid. The exhibition included an Agile ONE assembly station and a separate selfie station. Agile ONE S was also shown as a smaller platform aimed primarily at research and development.

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  • Agile Robots launches industrial humanoid Agile ONE

    2025-11-19 - Product Launch - The layered AI architecture separates strategic reasoning and task planning from rapid response and fine motor control. The model combines industrial operating data with simulation and human-collected training data. Agile planned in-house German manufacturing at a new Bavarian facility, with full production targeted for early 2026.

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Context

Market context

Agile ONE is Agile Robots industrial humanoid for material handling, machine tending and fine manipulation alongside existing automation.

  • Target environment: Factory floors and industrial production environments.
  • Workflow context: Material handling, machine tending and fine manipulation in industrial production settings alongside existing automation.
  • Customer context: Industrial manufacturers deploying humanoid platforms within broader automation stacks.
  • Deployment model: Commercial product positioned as an industrial physical AI platform.
  • Commercial maturity: Actively positioned industrial humanoid from a company with existing automation integration expertise.
  • Adoption constraints: Humanoid form factor in production lines requires workflow adaptation and integration with existing equipment.
  • Market position: Plugs into a broader industrial automation stack rather than standing alone as a humanoid demo.
  • Adjacent products: AEON, Apollo, industrial humanoid platforms

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