Agility Digit
Photo: Agility Robotics
- cameras
- 4 Intel RealSense depth
- factory
- RoboFab, Salem OR — designed for up to 10,000 units per year
- sensing
- MEMS IMU, gyroscope, arm force sensors
- payload lbs
- 35
- next generation
- Digit v5, announced 2026: 50 lb payload, about 22 hours operating time, 7.2 ft reach, ISO-flange swappable end-effectors, fenceless cooperatively-safe operation, NVIDIA Halos launch partner
- battery runtime hr
- 8
- shipping generation
- Digit v4 — the version actually deployed at customer sites today
- v5 first deployments
- early customer deployments slated for December 2026
Who's exposed
Jobs in the threat radius
- warehouse picker
- tote handler
- conveyor loader
- order fulfillment associate
- returns processor
- automotive logistics material handler
Deployment status
[Re-verified 2026-08-30. Status remains shipping. Deployment evidence has broadened considerably; the financial picture underneath it is new and materially changes how to read this entry.] Digit v4 remains the generation actually working at customer sites. Agility — which dropped Robotics from its name in March 2026 — now reports commitments across nine customer facilities and more than 65,000 hours of real-world operation, with a pipeline it puts at over 30 customers. Named accounts are GXO Logistics, Schaeffler, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada and, new since the last check, Mercado Libre. Digit moved over 100,000 totes for GXO during 2025. Amazon is not an active customer: Agility says it completed multiple pilots there and that re-engagement depends on the next-generation robot. Digit v5 was announced in 2026 with a 50 lb payload, roughly 22 hours of operating time and fenceless cooperatively-safe operation, but early customer deployments are not due until December 2026 — the previous version of this entry described the 50 lb payload as already shipping, which conflated v5 with the v4 actually in the field, and we are correcting that. On 24 June 2026 Agility agreed to go public through a merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI at a $2.5 billion pre-money equity valuation, raising over $620 million gross, comprising a $420 million trust and roughly $200 million in PIPE financing led by Foxconn, with a planned Nasdaq listing under AGLT and closing expected by the end of 2026. The merger filings disclose more than $300 million in committed multi-year Digit v5 orders — but that figure derives from a single three-year, 1,000-robot contract from an undisclosed customer, is milestone-contingent, and the company states it is not a measure of current-period revenue. The same filings show 2025 operating expenses of about $111 million against roughly $71 million in 2024, cash burn near $100 million, no disclosed revenue, and over $390 million in equity raised since 2015. Michael Beer became CFO on 23 July 2026, with Jennifer Hunter continuing as COO; Peggy Johnson remains CEO. The ISO functional-safety certification this entry previously expected in mid-to-late 2026 could not be re-confirmed this cycle, and should be treated as unverified rather than pending.
When this hits the labor market
Already happening at GXO, Toyota Canada, Schaeffler and Mercado Libre — nine facilities and 65,000 logged hours is no longer a pilot programme, it is a small deployed workforce. Over 1-2 years the pattern replicates at the next tier of 3PL operators, the same crowd already running Locus AMRs. Over 2-4 years the gate is Digit v5: fenceless operation is what removes the safety cage and the designated zone, and that is the difference between a robot that needs its own bay and one that can be dropped into an existing aisle. December 2026 is the date to watch. The interesting structural question has not changed: whether Digit-class humanoids displace the AMR category by handling the tote-on-tote-off step AMRs cannot, and whether Toyota proving the automotive case opens the same door at every other OEM. What this re-check adds is a caution that belongs on the record. The $300 million order book that underpins a $2.5 billion valuation rests on one contract, from one customer nobody has named, for a robot that has not yet been delivered to anyone, with payment tied to milestones. Against that sits roughly $100 million a year of cash burn and no disclosed revenue. None of this means Digit fails — it is the best-evidenced humanoid deployment in this catalog by some distance. It means the timeline above is contingent on a company that is still spending far more than it earns successfully completing a public listing. Anyone using this entry to judge their own exposure should weigh the deployment evidence and the balance sheet together, not just the first one.
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The first humanoid that actually clocks in
Digit is still the closest thing in this catalog to a humanoid that does shift work — not keynote shift work, but full-time deployment for paying customers, measured in totes moved and hours logged. Agility now reports nine customer facilities and more than 65,000 hours of real-world operation, with named accounts at GXO Logistics, Schaeffler, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada and Mercado Libre. Digit moved over 100,000 totes for GXO during 2025 alone.
That is a genuinely strong evidence base, and it has grown since we last checked. Two things need correcting alongside it.
What we got wrong, and what changed
This page previously described Digit as shipping with a 50 lb payload. It does not. That is Digit v5, announced this year — 50 lb, around 22 hours of runtime, swappable ISO-flange end-effectors, and fenceless operation that lets it work alongside people without a cage. Early customer deployments are due in December 2026. The robot actually in the field is v4, at 35 lb and eight hours. We had merged the two.
The second change is bigger. In June, Agility — which dropped “Robotics” from its name in March — agreed to go public through a SPAC merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI, at a $2.5 billion pre-money valuation, raising over $620 million with Foxconn leading the PIPE. Nasdaq ticker AGLT, closing expected by year end.
Going public means the numbers are now visible, and they are worth reading carefully. The filings disclose more than $300 million in committed multi-year orders for Digit v5. That entire figure comes from one three-year, 1,000-robot contract, from a customer Agility has not named, for a robot nobody has taken delivery of, with payment contingent on milestones. The company says plainly it is not a measure of current revenue. On the other side of the ledger: about $111 million of operating expenses in 2025 against $71 million the year before, roughly $100 million of cash burn, and no disclosed revenue at all.
Why we care for LostJobs
If you work order fulfillment in a 3PL warehouse and you have already met a Locus AMR, Digit is what the AMR can’t do. The AMR moves the cart; Digit takes the tote off it and puts it on the conveyor. That handoff is the reason 3PLs still hire seasonal pickers, and closing it is the whole thesis. Toyota Canada is the early read on the same arc in automotive logistics.
But we published a retirement in this same catalog cycle — a farm robot whose maker collapsed and left its customers with machines that would not start. So it is worth saying the quiet part here too. Digit’s deployment evidence is the best of any humanoid we track. Its order book is one unnamed customer, and it is burning roughly $100 million a year to get to a listing.
That does not make the displacement less real for a tote handler at GXO; those robots are working now. It means the pace of what comes next depends on a financing event, not just on the robotics. When you are estimating how fast your own job changes, the vendor’s balance sheet is part of the spec sheet.