Hyperscale Data plans OPR-R2 humanoid robot deployment
Hyperscale Data plans to deploy OPR-R2 humanoid robots at its Michigan data center campus, with the first 30 machines now in production through a partner of its wholly owned subsidiary Omnipresent Robotics, according to Data Center Dynamics.
The company expects to begin receiving components and assembling the robots for deployment in the third quarter of 2026. The machines are supplied by Agibot PTE Ltd, the Chinese robotics firm working with Hyperscale and Omnipresent on the project.
Key facts
- Initial production batch: 30 OPR-R2 humanoid robots
- Planned total fleet: 143 robots
- Robot purchase value: $13.4 million
- Expected Michigan assembly: third quarter of 2026
- Robotics area: about 100,000 square feet within the Dowagiac site
A robotics lab inside a data center campus
Hyperscale says the robots will operate from a planned 100,000 square foot Robotics Research, Testing, and Innovation Center at its Dowagiac, Michigan, site. The initial 30 units will be assigned to Omnipresent Robotics’ Model Training Laboratory, where they are expected to work with AI infrastructure personnel and data center employees to generate real world training data.
The work described is not just routine facility service. Hyperscale said the robots will assist with data collection, model training, simulation validation, facility operations, and development of next generation embodied AI systems. In the company’s framing, the data center becomes both compute infrastructure and a controlled physical training environment for humanoid systems.
Hyperscale aims to deploy 143 robots in total, acquired from Agibot for $13.4 million. Omnipresent has also been authorized to resell the robots under its own brand. The resale right makes the project more than an internal facilities experiment, although the source article does not provide OPR-R2 specifications, autonomy levels, or task performance metrics.
Dowagiac site adds a humanoid role
The Michigan campus is a 30MW data center on a 34.5 acre site at 415 East Prairie Ronde Street in Dowagiac. Hyperscale acquired the 617,000 sq ft facility in May 2022. Built in 1972 as a manufacturing space, the site has hosted Bitcoin mining, and Hyperscale has also been adding HPC and colocation activity.
Approximately 100,000 sq ft has now been allocated to robotics operations, teleoperation bays, and embodied AI training activities, according to the company. Hyperscale says it aims to expand the site to 340MW, including 40MW of behind the meter natural gas capacity.
Executive chairman Milton “Todd” Ault III said Hyperscale sees physical AI as an important part of future AI systems, with the Michigan campus intended to create a large scale environment where humanoid robots and advanced AI models can train and improve. The source describes Hyperscale, formerly Ault Alliance, as a former diversified holding company that last year announced a full focus on AI and data centers, a name change, and plans to divest non data center assets.
Agibot was founded in 2023 and is based in Shanghai. The company develops humanoid, dog, and wheeled robots, and claims to have mass produced 1,000 general purpose embodied robots. For humanoid robotics buyers and operators, the Michigan plan is worth watching as a test of whether a data center campus can produce useful training data and operational workflows for a fleet, rather than only hosting compute for the models behind it.
Source: datacenterdynamics.com
