Digit
The 2023 Digit added a head, improved hands and a taller frame, and is the version Agility Robotics sells as a service for moving totes in warehouses. It was the first humanoid with a paid, multi-year commercial deployment (GXO, 2024) and is built at Agility's RoboFab factory. Schaeffler invested in Agility in 2024 and planned to deploy Digit in its plants.
Agility Robotics press imageWe have not sat down with this one. The score below is computed from the data we hold, and the facts on this page are sourced. It is not on sale, so there is nothing to recommend.
How the score is built
Capability is what the machine physically does. Value compares it with others at a similar price, not with the whole market. Buyability asks whether you can really order one. Ecosystem is the software and community around it. Proof is what it has done in the field, which is where most humanoids score badly and should.
What people buy instead.
- Status
- Commercial
- Category
- logistics
- First revealed
- 20 March 2023
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- 175 cm
- Weight
- 65 kg
- Payload
- 16 kg
- Degrees of freedom
- n/a
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- partial
Where it stands
Offered as robots-as-a-service for tote handling; deployed with GXO and others; built at RoboFab in Salem, Oregon.
What stands out
- 175 cm, 65 kg, 16 kg payload
- GXO multi-year RaaS deployment (June 2024)
- RoboFab factory opened September 2023, capacity up to 10,000 per year
- Schaeffler investment and deployment plan (September 2024)
Autonomy, observed
GXO deployment at a Spanx facility in Georgia since 2024 was reported by GXO and multiple outlets as the first formal RaaS humanoid deployment; Amazon tested Digit in 2023.
Operates autonomously on tote moves; remote monitoring via Agility Arc.
Hands, sensors, brain
- Hands: two-finger end effectors designed for totes
- Sensors: head with LED eyes, depth cameras, lidar
- AI stack: Agility Arc cloud platform for fleet management; reinforcement learning locomotion
Price and volume
RaaS only; pricing not public
Index position
In the Humanoid Index, which ranks on shipped reality rather than value for money, Digit sits at #39 of 107 with 40 points: deployment 14/50, autonomy 18/30, availability 8/20. See that method.
How a humanoid robot works: actuators, compute, sensors and the model
Of 182 humanoids on record, 178 say what moves the joints and 43 say what computer is inside. The further a layer sits from the metal, the less the maker tells you about it.
Who is paying for humanoids: 69 funding rounds
Our funding record holds 69 entries. Take out the government funds, the acquisitions and the IPOs and $6.33 billion of disclosed private money remains. 37 percent of it went to companies with no robot on record.
China builds, America demos: what 108 makers tell you
Chinese makers account for 65 of the 182 humanoids in our record and 31 of the 44 you can order. American makers hold the money, the research and most of the autonomy claims, and sell you almost nothing.
The uncanny valley, and why the newest humanoids have no face
Masahiro Mori warned in 1970 that a nearly human face repels. Of the 182 humanoids in our record, four describe one, and none of the four does physical work for a customer.
What humanoid robots can actually do in 2026
Of 182 humanoid robots on record, 117 have a human in the loop, 33 have ever worked at a customer site and none has a verified fleet count. Here is what that leaves.
Why hands are the hardest part of a humanoid
Of 182 humanoids on record, 96 describe their hands and 13 publish a degrees-of-freedom figure for them. The word dexterous appears 21 times and comes with a number once.
Other robots by Agility Robotics.
Cassie
Cassie was a legs-only bipedal robot derived from Oregon State University's ATRIAS research and sold by Agility Robotics to universities from 2017. Its ostrich-like legs became a common platform for reinforcement learning locomotion research. It set a 100 m record for bipedal robots in 2022.
Digit (v1 to v3)
Digit added a torso, arms and perception to the Cassie legs and was first shown in February 2019. Ford bought the first two units in 2020 for last-mile delivery research, and v2 and v3 added better perception and hands-free manipulation of totes. These versions were superseded by the 2023 Digit.
Sources
- 01Agility RoboticsAgility Robotics
- 02Agility RoboticsWikipedia
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