In a 10,000-square-metre hall in Fürstenfeldbruck, 25 kilometres from Munich, Agile Robots is assembling humanoid robots. According to the company, production started there in January 2026, and the line moved into series production at the end of the summer. Six months before launch, the building was empty.
Agile Robots does not come from the humanoid world. The manufacturer says it has deployed more than 20,000 automation solutions worldwide, and for years it has been producing robotic arms and cobots in Kaufbeuren, about 90 kilometres southwest of Munich. But a humanoid is much larger than an arm and made up of far more parts. According to the company, that called for a dedicated site, which Kaufbeuren could not absorb on top of its existing production.
Fürstenfeldbruck was chosen for its proximity: it is 25 kilometres from the company’s Munich offices and research labs. An engineer can reach the teams assembling a newly developed component in half an hour, which matters while the product is still changing as it enters production. The company says the hall, the workstations, supplier qualification and hiring all had to move forward in parallel, for a robot that had not yet reached its final form.
How the Agile Robots humanoid factory works: automated and manual lines
The site runs two types of production line side by side. The lines that assemble arms and torsos are fully automated: the work is repetitive, tolerances are tight, and testing is automated too. Mobile robots move parts between workstations, with no conveyors and no pre-mapped routes, according to the company. Almost nothing is fixed to the floor, so stations can be moved as the line matures.
Further along, the scale changes. Where parts fit in the hand, the work becomes human again. This is where the company’s own dexterous hand, the Agile Hand, is assembled: a technician works on one hand at a time and fits the sensors housed in each fingertip. Final assembly is also carried out by operators. Agile Robots describes these two stations as the most difficult in the building.
The reason lies in the in-house design. According to the company, the Agile Hand and the force-torque sensor in every joint are its own developments, which no supplier sells and which nobody outside its factories has ever assembled. A complete robot takes three to four days to move through the factory, from the first station to the finished unit.
Why most Agile Robots humanoids ship on wheels
The hall produces both legged and wheeled machines, but according to the company most of what ships today is on wheels. The choice is as much regulatory as technical. Agile Robots says there is still no framework in Europe or North America for bipedal humanoids working alongside people, and no standards to certify them. Wheeled platforms are already certified, according to the company, so they can go into a customer’s factory now rather than wait for the rules to be written.
According to Agile Robots, producing in-house was an early strategic decision. While many hardware makers hand production to contract manufacturers so they can focus on design, the company designs and builds its robots itself, which gives it direct access to real production data.
“Large volumes of high-quality data are how we move Physical AI products from the lab to the line as fast as possible,” says Dr Zhaopeng Chen, CEO and founder of Agile Robots.
The mobile robots that carry parts from one station to the next were built on site. Every trip is logged, and according to the company this data is meant to improve their successors.
