与在仓库和工厂中已有数十年可靠记录的工业机器人相比，人形机器人在规模化应用方面仍未得到验证，也尚未实现广泛的商业化。这一坦率的承认是敏捷机器人公司在证券申报文件中列出的风险之一——该公司是美国首家成为上市公司的人形机器人专业开发商。
Humanoid robots remain unproven at scale and have not yet achieved widespread commercialization, compared with industrial robots that have decades of proven track records in warehouses and factories. That frank acknowledgment is among the risks outlined in a securities filing by Agility Robotics—the first dedicated developer of humanoid robots to become a publicly traded company in the United States.
这家总部位于俄勒冈州塞勒姆的机器人公司此前于2024年成为首家在客户仓库实现人形机器人全职商业部署的公司。如今，敏捷机器人公司自11月5日起在纳斯达克证券交易所公开上市，同时披露的财务文件详细说明了该公司计划如何围绕出租或销售人形机器人来从事体力劳动构建业务。
The robotics company, headquartered in Salem, Oregon, previously became the first to achieve full-time commercial deployment of humanoid robots at a customer warehouse in 2024. Now, Agility’s public listing on the Nasdaq stock exchange as of November 5 has come with financial disclosures detailing how the company plans to build a business around renting out or selling humanoid robots to perform manual labor.
“当我们提供机器人即服务时，客户使用的风险要低得多，因为他们从第一天起就能获得投资回报，”敏捷机器人公司联合创始人兼首席机器人官乔纳森·赫斯特对Ars表示。“因为他们支付的费率与人力劳动费率相当，这使得经济账非常直截了当。”
“When we are doing robots as a service, it is much lower risk for customers to use it because they are getting a return on investment on day one,” Jonathan Hurst, co-founder and chief robot officer at Agility Robotics, told Ars. "Because they're paying a rate that is comparable to the human labor rate, and that makes the economics pretty straightforward.”