Which is what characterizes the best robot.

Capacities and repeatability.

What really wins in the battle in the dispute between robots? It could be acrobatics or boxes stacked to the limit, the answer begins to emerge in an unglamorous warehouse in Georgia, in the GXO Logistics distribution center, the fast robot Digit from Agility Robotics reaches the mark of more than 100,000 boxes transported, a gross, practical, almost banal number and precisely for that reason so powerful in an industry accustomed to idolizing brilliant prototypes that in few cases really work.

This milestone is born from real production cycles, in which Digit acts at the last meter of material handling, while autonomous mobile robots do the transport and industrial arms dominate fixed positions, the humanoid format enters where nothing is standardized, Digit takes, loads, repositions, fills the gap that normally only human hands solve and it does so as part of a larger GXO experiment that tests a robotic workforce also composed of Electronic and Reflex machines, but by revealing such precise numbers, Agility suggests being some steps forward in validation.

Maybe both are important.

This move comes at a calculated time, just a few days after competitor Figure disclosed that its F2s handled nearly 90,000 metal parts at BMW, Agility's response came not in the form of online provocation, but in volume of work, more than 100,000 units moved, a reminder that even in a dispute that has already generated public accusations and bankruptcy forecasts, there is a type of argument that doesn't shout, it just counts.

And while the eyes of the public are focused on the rivalry between the Americans themselves, another pressure is growing on the other side of the planet, China Unitree is already celebrating mass deliveries of industrial humanoids, sending hundreds to automotive factories, the global board is moving and the demonstration season has reached its limit, now, the question that defines the winners has changed, it is no longer a robot that can do this, it is how many times it can do it before stopping.

And if the future really belongs to the most resistant, the milestone reached in Georgia may be just the first step in this new phase of humanoids, and then, in your opinion, what matters more? The rare skill or the tireless repetition?