Nasdaq-listed Hyperscale Data has announced that its robotics subsidiary, Omnipresent Robotics, will deploy humanoid robots built by China's AgiBot at its data-center campus in Dowagiac, Michigan. The first 30 of 142 purchased units will arrive in an initial wave, with the machines intended to work alongside human and AI staff as the company builds out automated operations.
From data center to robotics hub
Hyperscale Data said it also plans to build a 100,000-square-foot Robotics Research, Testing and Innovation Center in the same community, citing Michigan's industrial workforce. The move extends the company beyond colocation, layering an embodied-AI operation on top of the compute footprint it has been assembling. It is one of the larger announced commercial humanoid deployments in the United States to date.
AgiBot's manufacturing velocity
AgiBot, the Shanghai firm founded in 2023 by former Huawei engineers, has scaled faster than almost any rival. It announced its 10,000th humanoid in March 2026, having doubled output from 5,000 in three months, and shipped an estimated 5,168 units in 2025 to top global humanoid volumes. Its flagship Yuanzheng A2 stands 169 cm tall, carries 40+ degrees of freedom and runs the company's multimodal WorkGPT software, with deployments spanning customer service, logistics, inspection and manufacturing. The same embodied-AI ambitions are visible in AgiBot's GO-2 foundation model.
National-security and local pushback
The deployment lands amid intensifying scrutiny of Chinese robotics. U.S. lawmakers have warned that humanoid systems from China's fast-growing sector could carry security risks, and proposed legislation would bar federal agencies from operating ground robots from "foreign entities of concern." Locally, residents near the Dowagiac facility have filed a class-action lawsuit over round-the-clock noise from the 30-megawatt site. The episode mirrors the broader race underway among makers tracked in Morgan Stanley's China humanoid shipment forecast and domestic rivals such as UBTech, which is mass-producing its Walker S2, alongside the connected build-out of Hyperscale Data's Michigan colocation campus.
Reporting based on coverage from NaturalNews, Robotics and Automation News and company statements.