Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5 on Sept. 15, the fifth generation of its general-purpose humanoid robot. The company calls it its first humanoid "engineered for cooperatively safe work at scale," meaning it can operate close to people without the physical barriers that conventional automation requires.
The safety changes come in three parts. Proprietary AI algorithms and multiple sensors watch continuously for people, and the robot responds by avoiding them, stopping or sitting down. Visual and auditory cues signal where the robot is about to move. A separate safety controller handles the response when someone comes within an unsafe distance. For automation engineers, the relevant claim is that cells built around Digit may need less fencing and guarding. Agility says an earlier Digit was the first humanoid to pass an independent field evaluation against OSHA industrial safety standards on a customer's production line.
The hardware changes are substantial. A redesigned leg with proprietary cycloidal actuators raises payload 40 percent, to repeated lifts of up to 50 lb (22.7 kg). A 90-minute battery recharges in nine minutes, a 10:1 run-to-charge ratio against 2:1 on Digit 4, which Agility says allows more than 20 hours of work in a 24-hour day. Grippers now swap through ISO-standard mounting flanges. The robot weighs 284 lb (129 kg), stands 5 ft 11 in (1.81 m) and reaches 7.2 ft (2.2 m), up from 5.5 ft on Digit 4.
Digit 4 has mostly handled tote movement. Agility plans to train Digit 5 for depalletizing, machine tending, kitting, sequencing, quality inspection and palletizing. The Agility Arc cloud platform tracks fleet uptime, throughput and mean time between incidents, and connects to warehouse management, warehouse execution and manufacturing execution systems.
Digit 4 has logged more than 65,000 operating hours at sites including GXO, Schaeffler, Amazon and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada. At GXO's Flowery Branch facility near Atlanta, it moved 100,000 totes at roughly 98 percent accuracy. As of May 2026, Agility reported more than $300 million in multi-year Digit 5 orders, subject to contractual milestones. NVIDIA's Deepu Talla, vice president of robotics and edge AI, said safe operation around people is "what moves humanoid robots from pilots to industrial deployments at scale." Agility is the first launch partner for NVIDIA's Halos for Robotics platform, and its safety system runs on NVIDIA IGX Thor.
Agility is also contributing to the draft standards ANSI/A3 TR R15.108 and ISO 25785-1. Early access starts in the first half of 2027, with general availability by the end of 2027. Agility plans its first deployments outside North America in the European Union and United Kingdom, and expects Digit 5 to carry a CE mark.
