Agility unveils Digit 5, a humanoid built to work beside people

Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5 on September 15, 2026, a redesigned humanoid that carries 50 lb (22.7 kg) and runs 90 minutes on a 9-minute charge. The company says it is its first humanoid engineered for “cooperatively safe work at scale,” with early access in the first half of 2027 and general availability targeted for the end of 2027.

Agility reports more than $300 million in multi-year customer orders for Digit 5 as of May 2026, the same figure behind its SPAC listing with Churchill Capital Corp XI. Digit 5 is the product that order book is written against.

What can Digit 5 carry, and how long does it run?

Agility rates Digit 5 at a 50 lb payload lifted repeatedly, which it says is 40% more than Digit 4. Maximum reach is 7.2 ft (2.2 m), up from 5.5 ft on the previous model, according to The Robot Report. The robot weighs 284 lb (129 kg) and stands 5 ft 11 in (1.81 m).

The larger change is the power budget. Digit 5 runs for 90 minutes and recharges in 9, a 10:1 ratio against Digit 4’s 2:1. Agility says that allows more than 20 hours of work in a 24-hour day. At 2:1 a robot spends a third of its shift on the charger; at 10:1 it spends about 9%.

The legs are new. Agility has dropped Digit’s backward-bending, ostrich-like knees for a human-like configuration driven by its own cycloidal actuators, with padded knees for kneeling and the ability to squat into a stable pose and power down. “The product requirements push us in the direction of lifting heavy things all the time,” co-founder and chief robot officer Jonathan Hurst told The Robot Report.

What does “cooperatively safe” mean for Digit 5?

Agility describes 360-degree human detection using its own AI models and multiple sensor types, visual and audible signals of the robot’s intent, and an independent safety controller. Rather than fencing off fixed danger zones, the robot adjusts its behaviour as people approach and can avoid them, stop or sit down. The system is built with NVIDIA’s Halos for Robotics platform.

The company says Digit was the first humanoid to pass an independent field evaluation on a customer production line for industrial safety standards administered by OSHA, and that it contributes to the ANSI/A3 TR R15.108 and ISO 25785-1 humanoid safety standards. Its first international rollout, to the EU and UK, will carry CE marking. These are company-reported claims.

Who uses Digit today?

Digit 4 has worked at customer sites in North America including GXO, Schaeffler, Amazon and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, logging more than 65,000 operating hours. At GXO’s Flowery Branch facility near Atlanta it passed a cumulative 100,000 totes at about 98% on-task accuracy, per Agility.

Why it matters

The Robot Report notes Agility booked $1.8 million in net sales in 2025. Against a $300 million order book, that gap is what Digit 5 has to close, and the order book, per Agility’s listing disclosures, is milestone-contingent. The 10:1 charge ratio and the no-fixed-zone safety model are the two specifications most likely to decide whether customers move from pilot cells to full facility workflows.