Agility Unveils Digit 5 Humanoid Robot Built for Cooperatively Safe Work at Scale
The robot adds a new safety architecture, 50-pound lifting capacity and 9-minute charging as Agility targets broader factory and warehouse deployment.
- On Tuesday, Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5, its next-generation humanoid robot featuring a new safety architecture designed to allow operation in close proximity to people without traditional physical barriers.
- Developed after three years of customer feedback, Digit 5 brings 40% more payload, lifting up to 50 lb., and a new 90-minute battery system that charges in 9 minutes, enabling over 20 hours of productive work daily.
- More than $300 million in multi-year customer orders have been secured for Digit 5, though Agility remains unprofitable, reporting $1.8 million in net sales and a $140 million operating loss in 2025.
- Commercial availability for Digit 5 is expected in North America in the first half of 2027, followed by the European Union and the United Kingdom later that year, marking the company's first global expansion.
- Valued at about $2.5 billion, Agility plans to become the first U.S. humanoid maker to go public through a SPAC deal, focusing on solving industrial workflow blockers rather than simply increasing robot production volumes.
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Agility Robotics unveiled an early preview of Digit 5, its refined next-generation humanoid robot set to ship to select customers in 2026. The 5'9", 160-pound model features improved hands with 16 degrees of freedom, a sleeker sensor head, faster walking speeds, enhanced battery life, and advanced AI for autonomous task handling in logistics and manufacturing.
The humanoid Digit5 unveiled by Agility Robotics is designed to work safely in a human-like space without a safety fence using AI and sensors. It is expected that the commercialization of humanoids in industrial sites will be accelerated by enhancing safety functions that stop themselves or lower their posture when workers are close.
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