US data center firm Hyperscale Data is planning to deploy humanoid robots at its facility in Michigan.
The company recently announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Omnipresent Robotics, has confirmed the start of production of the first 30 OPR-R2 humanoid robots through its partner.
Hyperscale expects to begin receiving the components and assembling them for deployment at the company's Michigan data center campus in the third quarter of 2026.
The robots are expected to operate from the company's planned 100,000-square-foot (9,290 sqm) Robotics Research, Testing, and Innovation Center, and are intended to “support the development of embodied artificial intelligence applications, autonomous workflows, and advanced robotics systems.”
Hyperscale and Omnipresent are partnering with Chinese robotics firm Agibot PTE Ltd on the project.
In total, the firm aims to deploy 143 of these robots, all acquired from Agibot for a total of $13.4 million. Omnipresent has been authorized to resell the robots under its own brand.
The initial 30 machines will be assigned to Omnipresent Robotics' Model Training Laboratory, where they will work "side-by-side" with AI infrastructure personnel and data center employees, creating real-world training data.
Hyperscale said the robots will “assist with data collection, model training, simulation validation, facility operations, and the development of next-generation embodied AI systems.”
“The company believes the integration of humanoid robots with high-performance AI computing infrastructure will create a unique environment for developing and evaluating next-generation AI systems capable of operating in real-world environments,” Hyperscale said.
Hyperscale owns a data center in Michigan, located on a 34.5-acre site at 415 East Prairie Ronde Street, Dowagiac. The 30MW data center was acquired in May 2022 and spans 617,000 sq ft (57,320 sqm). Built in 1972 as a manufacturing space, Hyperscale is repurposing part of the site from Bitcoin mining to HPC and colocation – and now a robotics lab. Approximately 100,000 sq ft within the site has been allocated to robotics operations, teleoperation bays, and embodied AI training activities, according to the company.
The company aims to expand the site to 340MW, including 40MW of behind-the-meter natural gas capacity.
"We believe that physical AI is an incredibly important aspect in the future of artificial intelligence," added Milton 'Todd' Ault III, executive chairman of Hyperscale Data. "While today's leading AI models excel at reasoning, language, and content generation, tomorrow's AI systems must be capable of understanding and interacting with the physical world. Our Michigan Campus is being developed to help bridge that gap by creating a large-scale environment where humanoid robots and advanced AI models can continuously learn, train, and improve."
Hyperscale (formerly Ault Alliance) was a diversified holding company that invested in oil exploration, crane services, defense/aerospace, industrial, automotive, medical/biopharma, consumer electronics, hotel operations, and textiles.
Last year, it announced a full pivot towards AI and data centers, a name change, and plans to divest all its non-data center assets. Hyperscale Data is now majority-owned by Ault & Company, Inc.
Founded in 2023, Shanghai-based Agibot develops humanoid, dog, and wheeled machines. The company claims to have mass-produced 1,000 general-purpose embodied robots.