German Humanoid Robot Agile ONE for Factories

German Humanoid Robot Agile ONE Transforms Factories

January 29, 2026

Agile ONE, a German humanoid robot from Munich, brings precision hands and AI to factories. Handles tools, assembly, and more—full production in 2026.

Agile Robots has introduced Agile ONE, a German humanoid robot set to transform factory work. This onboard AI-driven industrial robot features sensor-rich, human-like hands for high-precision handling of tools and parts in real factory settings. It supports both delicate assembly and heavier tasks, addressing key barriers to deployment.¹

Company Background

Agile Robots is based in Munich, Germany.¹ The company was founded in 2018 by robotics researchers from the German Aerospace Center.⁵ With over 1,000 R&D experts, Agile Robots has thousands of global deployments in industrial automation.⁴⁵

Dr. Zhaopeng Chen serves as the CEO and Founder. The firm will manufacture Agile ONE at a new facility in Bavaria, with full production planned for early 2026.²

Design and Key Features

Agile ONE launched on November 19, 2025, as the company's first humanoid robot for industrial use.¹ It boasts world-leading dexterous hands with five fingers and fingertip and force-torque sensors in every joint.¹² The design includes 71 degrees of freedom, making it stable, flexible, tactile, and communicative.²⁶

A robot that looks the way a robot should look. It has a headlamp and lit eyes and everything, plus bright colors, responsive eyes, proximity sensors, and a chest information display for human-friendly interaction.²

Onboard AI Architecture

Agile ONE uses onboard AI with a multi-layered architecture that separates cognition for strategic reasoning and task planning from rapid response and fine motor skills.¹² The AI model draws from one of Europe's largest real-world industrial datasets, plus simulated and human-collected data.¹² It integrates with AgileCore, the company's proprietary AI software platform.¹²

Capabilities and Demonstrations

The robot performs material collection and transportation, pick-and-place operations, machine maintenance, tool handling, and intricate manipulation.¹² Videos show it handling tools, tightening bolts, moving parts across stations, and navigating messy factory floors.³ Agile ONE supports safe collaborative tasks alongside humans and existing robotic systems.¹

Those sensor-rich hands enable real precision work, like delicate assembly. Community discussions highlight how such finesse could extend to creative tasks, though factories remain the focus. Payload capacity and runtime address main barriers to full-shift operations.¹

Applications and Impact

Agile ONE targets industrial tasks in automotive, consumer electronics, healthcare, and service industries.¹²⁵ It enables material gathering, transport, pick-and-place, machine tending, tool use, and fine manipulation.² Integration with other Agile Robots solutions boosts holistic efficiency and quality in production.¹

Paths Forward / Looking Ahead

Full production of Agile ONE starts in early 2026 at the new Bavaria facility with in-house manufacturing.² Adoption will hinge on uptime, safety certification, and seamless integration rather than just form factor. Platforms like TASKA aim to enable bots for messy, varied factory tasks, building a labor layer for broader use. These factors position the German humanoid robot for real transformation in manufacturing.

Agile Robots envisions Agile ONE as part of intelligent production systems where components interconnect and learn from each other.¹ Combining exceptional hand dexterity, intuitive interaction, and industrial-validated AI sets a strong foundation. As factories face labor shortages, reliable deployment of such humanoids could reshape workflows. Early movers like this Munich firm lead the shift toward collaborative automation.

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