Agility Robotics Debuts Digit 5 Humanoid Robot After 65,000 Work Hours in Warehouses
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Updated · Ars Technica · Sep 15
Agility Robotics Debuts Digit 5 Humanoid Robot After 65,000 Work Hours in Warehouses
3 articles · Updated · Ars Technica · Sep 15
Summary
Digit 5 debuted with human-safe behaviors that let it work alongside people, including stopping, moving aside, or squatting when someone gets too close.
Those safeguards are meant to remove the need for isolated robot cells and barriers, widening potential use in warehouses and automotive factories.
Agility said customers will get early access in the first half of 2027, with general availability planned by the end of 2027 as it retools its Salem, Oregon, RoboFab plant.
More than 65,000 hours of prior Digit operations across North American warehouses and factories underpin the launch; users have included GXO, Schaeffler, Amazon and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada.
The debut builds on Agility's 2024 milestone of putting humanoid robots into full-time commercial warehouse operations at a GXO site in Atlanta.