The Agility Digit 5 humanoid is here, and it wants to work right next to you. Agility Robotics unveiled the fifth generation of its warehouse robot in September. Yesterday the company held its Analyst and Investor Day in New York. It also confirmed plans to go public on Nasdaq through a deal with Churchill Capital Corp XI.
The investor day was livestreamed from New York, according to Business Wire. Leaders from Schaeffler and Foxconn joined Agility executives on stage, along with the robotics industry group AUVSI. Earlier this year the company opened a new facility in Fremont, California for hardware and Physical AI development.
The business combination with Churchill Capital Corp XI is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026. After that the combined company will trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol AGLT. It will keep the Agility Robotics name.
“Humanoid robotics is moving from what’s possible to what’s practical,” said Peggy Johnson, chief executive officer of Agility Robotics. She said the event would show how three years of commercial deployments shaped Digit 5. The company wants to bring humanoid robots into more workplaces around the world.
Digit 5 is Agility’s first humanoid built for cooperative safety at scale, according to GCN. It can work close to people without the safety fences that usually surround industrial robots. Fences eat up floor space and slow down warehouses, so removing them is a big deal.
The safety system watches for people with AI based human detection and multiple sensors. When someone gets too close, Digit 5 can walk around them, stop, or move into a seated position. Lights and sounds tell nearby workers what the robot plans to do next. A separate safety controller double checks every response.
The robot runs on NVIDIA IGX Thor hardware and uses the NVIDIA Halos robotics safety software, according to Mezha. Prasa Velagapudi is the company’s chief technology officer. He described the seated pose as “not a display of fear or submission, but part of a safe movement system.” It is the robot’s way of showing it will not hurt you.
The Agility Digit 5 humanoid can repeatedly lift 50 pounds, about 40 percent more than Digit 4. It stands 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs 284 pounds, with arms that reach 7.2 feet high. A new battery runs for 90 minutes and charges in just 9 minutes. That 10:1 run to charge ratio allows more than 20 hours of productive work in a day.
The grippers now swap out on standard mounting flanges. One robot can move from tote handling to machine tending, kitting, sequencing, inspection and palletizing. That flexibility is new. Digit 4 mostly moved totes behind fences.
Agility says it holds more than $300 million in orders for the Agility Digit 5 humanoid, spread over multiple years. Company filings outline illustrative pricing of about $8,500 a month per robot under a robots as a service model. A single deployment fee of about $25,000 applies on top. Final contracts may differ, the company cautions.
The older Digit 4 already works at Amazon, GXO, Schaeffler and Toyota sites, and according to Daily AI Brief, the fleet has logged more than 65,000 operational hours. At one GXO facility the robots moved 100,000 containers with about 98 percent accuracy.
Early access to the Agility Digit 5 humanoid starts in the first half of 2027. Full availability follows by the end of that year. Agility also plans to sell Digit in the European Union and the United Kingdom for the first time.
The Agility Digit 5 humanoid arrives in a wider wave of warehouse automation. Makers are already shipping robots by the thousand, and robot dogs are heading to airports and city streets. Hong Kong even has stores run by robots and Tesla Optimus keeps moving toward homes.
The MES Times Take. Digit 5 is the moment humanoid robots stop being a demo and start being coworkers. The fences are coming down because the robot finally learned manners. If Agility delivers on safety and price, the warehouse of 2027 will look very different. And as Peggy Johnson put it, this is the shift from what is possible to what is practical.
