Agility Robotics has unveiled Digit 5, its first humanoid built to work near people without the safety cages or barriers traditional factory automation requires.
Whether that holds up outside a controlled pilot will decide if Agility’s $2.5 billion SPAC valuation is backed by broad real-world deployment or by a handful of large, favorable orders.
An AI system paired with multiple sensors watches continuously for people nearby and makes Digit 5 avoid, stop or sit down on its own, with visual and sound cues signaling what it's about to do. A separate, independent safety controller oversees that response, The Robot Report reports.
The robot lifts 50 lb, works more than 20 hours a day and fast-charges in 9 minutes. It stands 5 feet 11 inches and weighs 284 lb. Agility prices it at roughly $8,500 a month as a service, or about $200,000 to buy outright.
US warehouses employed 1.84 million people in August, below the 1.94 million peak of March 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Agility plans to launch Digit in the EU and UK in 2027, its first move outside North America, with early access in the first half of the year and general availability by year-end. Digit already works at GXO, Schaeffler and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, customers Agility named when it announced its SPAC deal with Churchill Capital Corp XI, which we covered in July.
CEO Peggy Johnson said the market has “responded with more than $300 million in multi-year orders” as of May 2026. But per Agility’s own SEC filing, a large share of that order book is a single agreement with a related-party customer for 1,000 robots over three years, paid partly in stock warrants rather than cash, and the company was still “evaluating the accounting for this transaction” as of July, TechRepublic reports.
