Research record R-018Limited delivery

Digit

By Agility Robotics · United States · announced January 2019

The humanoid with the most real paid work on record: about 75 units and 65,000+ hours across customer sites.

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Research summary

What the record says.

Digit is the humanoid that skipped the hype cycle and went to work. Agility Robotics' bird-legged biped has been moving totes in customer facilities since 2024, making it the strongest deployment story in the industry: roughly 75 units installed and more than 65,000 hours across nine customer facilities as of mid-2026, under robots-as-a-service contracts with GXO Logistics (running continuously for over a year), Schaeffler's South Carolina plant, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada and Mercado Libre.

Agility opened RoboFab in Salem, Oregon in 2023, billed as the world's first humanoid factory, and announced in June 2026 that it will go public via a $2.5 billion SPAC merger (Nasdaq: AGLT expected by end of 2026), the first pure-play US humanoid company to do so. Alongside the listing it detailed Digit v5: swappable hands, roughly 23 kilogram payload and a 'cooperatively safe' design, launching early 2027 with over $300 million in contracted orders.

Digit is not a companion and Agility does not pretend otherwise. It appears in this database because it defines what verified humanoid deployment actually looks like, the benchmark every home-robot claim should be measured against.

Delivery evidence

Announcement is not arrival.

Commercially deployed

About 75 units installed, 65,000+ hours across 9 customer facilities; named customers on record

Capability ledger

What has actually been shown?

2 material claims are separated by evidence setting and human involvement. The strongest recorded signal is Commercially deployed; it does not automatically transfer to every row.

cleaning

Moves totes and materials for full shifts

Logistics work, listed here as the database's strongest evidence of sustained autonomous humanoid labor

Commercially deployedVerified July 2026

Control mode: Autonomous
Human intervention: Remote exception handling

remote presence

Remote fleet monitoring and intervention

Commercially deployedVerified July 2026

Control mode: Mixed / assisted
Human intervention: Operators resolve exceptions remotely

Body & movement

Hardware record.

Height: 175 cm
Weight: 65 kg
Locomotion: Bipedal with reverse-articulated legs
Payload: 16 kg (current); about 23 kg for Digit v5 (claimed)
Runtime: About 4 hours; autonomous dock charging
Charging: Autonomous docking
Top speed: 1.5 m/s
Degrees of freedom: About 20 (v4 class)
Hands: Simple end effectors today; swappable dexterous hands on v5 (claimed)
Face / expression: LED 'eyes' panel for signaling intent to human coworkers
Sensors: Lidar, depth cameras, RGB cameras, force sensing

Intelligence & control

Software record.

AI platform: Agility Arc cloud orchestration; learned and engineered controllers; partnership work with NVIDIA
Voice: None (status signaling instead)
Languages: Not applicable
Visual recognition: Tote and fixture recognition
Memory: Fleet task orchestration
Processing: Onboard autonomy with cloud fleet management
Autonomous abilities: Full-shift autonomous tote handling at customer sites
Teleoperation: Remote monitoring and exception handling via Agility Arc
Software updates: Fleet software updates
Developer access: Enterprise APIs

Privacy & safety

Who can see, hear, or take control?

Recording storage: Enterprise-controlled site data
Remote operation possible: Yes
Teleoperation disclosure: Workplace deployment under safety protocols
Camera / microphone controls: Site controlled
Data deletion: Contract governed
Account required: Enterprise
Emergency stop: Industrial e-stop systems; v5 designed for cooperative safety
Children and pets: Not applicable (industrial)
Security updates: Enterprise support

Lifecycle record

Status history.

January 2019Prototype
First Digit shown; Ford research partnership
September 2023Pilot deployment
RoboFab factory announced; Amazon R&D pilot
June 2024Limited delivery
GXO recurring RaaS deployment begins
January 2025Limited delivery
Schaeffler live production work
June 2026Limited delivery
$2.5B SPAC announced; Digit v5 detailed with $300M+ orders

Source register

3 linked sources.

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