{"id":"2c3fa53d-cfa7-4ad0-97d8-4c667d61d3b5","modelId":"ec386dec-4329-4776-9bf9-d2ac74abddd5","versionId":null,"locationId":"1bfadeb9-800b-46f1-80bb-e802ad0159ac","operatorId":"3cc35a63-8495-4354-b01a-efe851d5c249","ownerId":null,"slug":"digit-mercado-libre-san-antonio","status":"active","firstSeen":"2025-12-10T00:00:00.000Z","manufacturerSerial":null,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://www.businesswire.com/","label":"BusinessWire — Mercado Libre + Agility Robotics joint announcement (Dec 10, 2025, primary)"},{"url":"https://www.agilityrobotics.com/content/mercado-libre-and-agility-robotics-announce-commercial-agreement","label":"Agility Robotics — Mercado Libre commercial agreement"},{"url":"https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/","label":"Digital Commerce 360 — Mercado Libre humanoid robots"},{"url":"https://www.dcvelocity.com/","label":"DC Velocity — San Antonio Texas fulfillment center coverage"},{"url":"https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/","label":"Robotics and Automation Magazine — San Antonio warehouse coverage"},{"url":"https://interestingengineering.com/","label":"Interesting Engineering — Mercado Libre + Agility coverage"}],"notes":"Mercado Libre, Latin America's largest commerce and fintech ecosystem, announced a commercial agreement with Agility Robotics on December 10, 2025 to deploy the Digit humanoid robot at its fulfillment facility in San Antonio, Texas. Digit initially focuses on commerce-fulfillment tasks including moving totes and transporting materials, handling repetitive and physically strenuous roles that are difficult to staff. The companies have stated plans to explore additional use cases across Mercado Libre's warehouse network in Latin America, positioning the San Antonio deployment as a potential bridgehead for humanoid deployment into Latin American e-commerce fulfillment.","keyFacts":[{"label":"Operator","value":"Mercado Libre (NASDAQ: MELI), Latin America's largest commerce/fintech ecosystem, 18 countries"},{"label":"Robot","value":"Agility Robotics Digit (bipedal humanoid, 5'9\", 143 lb)"},{"label":"Location","value":"San Antonio, Texas fulfillment facility"},{"label":"Commercial agreement","value":"Announced December 10, 2025"},{"label":"Initial task","value":"Commerce fulfillment (totes, material transport, repetitive/physically-taxing roles)"},{"label":"Stated expansion intent","value":"Latin American warehouse network"},{"label":"Reliability evidence cited","value":"Digit had moved 100,000+ totes at GXO Flowery Branch by November 2025"},{"label":"Executive","value":"Agustin Costa, SVP Shipping, Mercado Libre"},{"label":"Maturity","value":"Commercial (commercial agreement, initial deployment phase)"}],"reviewNote":null,"createdAt":"2026-05-28T13:10:53.501Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-28T13:10:53.661Z","model":{"id":"ec386dec-4329-4776-9bf9-d2ac74abddd5","companyId":"78e42c22-f8b8-4197-b71e-cdd6b64f9aac","modelName":"Digit","slug":"digit","description":"Agility Robotics' bipedal humanoid designed for warehouse and logistics work (bulk material handling, tote moving). 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The San Antonio, Texas deployment is a US facility, but the stated strategic intent is Latin American expansion, which would make Mercado Libre the bridgehead for humanoid deployment into a new geographic market. Where GXO validates contract logistics and Catalyst Brands validates US retail distribution, Mercado Libre validates Latin American e-commerce fulfillment as a humanoid-deployment sector.","status":"NASDAQ: MELI","founded":1999,"hq":"Montevideo, Uruguay","fundingTotal":null,"type":null,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://www.businesswire.com/","label":"BusinessWire — Mercado Libre + Agility Robotics joint announcement (Dec 10, 2025, primary)"},{"url":"https://www.agilityrobotics.com/content/mercado-libre-and-agility-robotics-announce-commercial-agreement","label":"Agility Robotics — Mercado Libre commercial agreement"},{"url":"https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/","label":"Digital Commerce 360 — Mercado Libre to test Agility Robotics' humanoid robots"},{"url":"https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/","label":"Robotics and Automation Magazine — San Antonio warehouse coverage"},{"url":"https://www.dcvelocity.com/","label":"DC Velocity — Texas fulfillment center coverage"},{"url":"https://interestingengineering.com/","label":"Interesting Engineering — Mercado Libre + Agility coverage"}],"keyFacts":[{"label":"Scale","value":"Latin America's largest commerce and fintech ecosystem; operates in 18 countries; one of the largest fulfillment networks in the Americas"},{"label":"Founded","value":"1999"},{"label":"Public listing","value":"NASDAQ: MELI"},{"label":"Commercial agreement with Agility Robotics","value":"Announced December 10, 2025"},{"label":"Deployment site","value":"Mercado Libre fulfillment facility, San Antonio, Texas, USA"},{"label":"Robot","value":"Agility Robotics Digit"},{"label":"Initial task","value":"Commerce-fulfillment support (moving totes, transporting materials, repetitive/physically-strenuous tasks)"},{"label":"Stated expansion intent","value":"Additional use cases across Mercado Libre's warehouse network in Latin America"},{"label":"Position in Agility's customer roster","value":"Named alongside GXO, Toyota, Amazon, Schaeffler"},{"label":"Executive quoted","value":"Agustin Costa, Senior VP of Shipping"},{"label":"Strategic rationale","value":"Ergonomic safety, labor-gap reduction, productivity, freeing employees for higher-value work"}],"aliases":["Mercado Libre","MercadoLibre","MELI"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"createdAt":"2026-05-28T13:10:52.474Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-28T13:10:52.639Z"},"owner":null,"derived":{"trustTier":"unverified","currentPosture":null}}