Agility Robotics Digit Review: The Humanoid Robot Already Doing Paid Work (2026)

How much does the Agility Digit cost, and can you actually get one?

Digit has no sticker price, and that is not evasion, it is the business model: Agility Robotics rents Digit through Robots-as-a-Service contracts that bundle the robot, its Agility Arc cloud software, workcell, fleet management and maintenance. The most concrete economics come from the June 2026 SPAC investor deck, which models illustrative RaaS pricing of $8,500 per month per Digit, about $100,000 a year, set at a discount to a fully burdened human labor rate of roughly $30.50 an hour (SEC investor presentation). Read CEO Peggy Johnson's much-quoted benchmark the same way: "under 2 year ROI vs a human at a fully loaded $30 an hour" (The Robot Report, July 2024) — the $30 an hour is what the human costs, not what Digit rents for, a distinction most coverage misses. The "$250,000" you will see on directory sites is real but historical: it was Digit's direct-purchase price when it first went on sale in 2020. The "$45,000" one prominent directory lists is simply wrong.

And yes, you can genuinely get one, which makes Digit nearly unique: it is the humanoid with the deepest verified paid-work record for named customers, GXO, Toyota Canada, Mercado Libre, Schaeffler, with an integrator channel and a service partner. If your operation moves totes, Digit is the one humanoid where the conversation starts with a contract instead of a waitlist.

One disclosure up front: this is desk research built on the sources linked throughout, primary wherever they exist, not a hands-on test.

The misinformation audit: what circulates vs the record

What is Digit?

Digit is Agility Robotics' bipedal warehouse humanoid, the machine with the backwards-looking "bird legs" that make roboticists smile, and the industry's least hypothetical robot. It descends from Cassie, the walking research platform Agility spun out of Oregon State University, and the current fourth-generation logistics Digit (launched March 2023, substantially upgraded at ProMat in March 2025) is built for one job family done reliably: picking up totes and putting them down somewhere else, between AMRs, conveyors and racking. That narrowness is the strategy. While rivals demo laundry folding and kung fu, Digit clocked sixty-five thousand paid hours, and Agility is about to take that record to the public markets.

The proof ledger

Very few humanoids have receipts like these; here they are, dated and sourced.

Ledger sources: the SEC investor presentation (June 2026) and the June 24, 2026 joint press release.

Context matters both ways: those numbers dwarf every Western rival's shipped evidence, and they are still small against the ambition. Agility has not disclosed revenue; its preliminary figures show about $111 million of 2025 operating expenses ($37M SG&A plus $74M R&D) and roughly $100 million of cash burn, and the deck is explicit that the $300M+ order book "is not a measure of current period revenue." Digit proves humanoids can earn; Agility has not yet shown how much, or that they earn profitably.

Official specs vs the directory layer

The pattern to note: Agility publishes what operators need (payload, uptime mechanics, safety hardware, integrations) and keeps the robot-nerd numbers gated. Directories fill the gap with drift, which is how a 4-hour battery becomes "8 hours" and a v5 target becomes a shipping spec. Verification status per claim is tracked in the Digit record in our robot database.

The deployment ledger, dated

Around the customers sits a real channel: Zion Solutions Group as the first humanoid systems integrator (May 2024) and Ricoh USA servicing Digit fleets (Sept 2024), both official partnerships. That channel is itself evidence: you build integrator and service networks for products that ship, not products that demo.

The price question, in full

What a Digit engagement actually is: a RaaS contract bundling hardware, Agility Arc, the workcell, fleet management and maintenance, priced per deployment and never published as a rate card. The most concrete numbers exist in the June 2026 investor deck: an illustrative model of $8,500 per month per Digit, about $100,000 a year and roughly $500,000 over a lifetime engagement, "priced at discount to customer's fully burdened labor rate" of about $30.50 an hour. That is also the correct reading of Johnson's much-quoted line, "under 2 year ROI vs a human at a fully loaded $30 an hour": the $30 is the human's cost, the comparator Digit undercuts, not Digit's rental price. The GXO rate has never been disclosed. Direct purchase exists (Schaeffler signed a purchase agreement), also unpriced. And the $250,000 is history rather than rumor: that was Digit's direct-purchase price when it went on sale in 2020, then-CEO Damion Shelton having put it in the "low-mid six figures"; by 2024, IEEE Spectrum was told the newer generation would cost less than $250,000, and Agility has published no number since. What the filings show instead of revenue: $111 million of preliminary 2025 operating expenses and $300M+ of multi-year bookings, a contracts-ramping engine, exactly what a RaaS model predicts. For the cross-market picture, our humanoid robot cost guide puts these numbers next to everyone else's silence.

Digit v5: the next generation

Announced alongside the SPAC in June 2026, Digit v5 is the bigger bet: 50 lb payload (up from 35), and "cooperative safety," the ability to work outside a fenced workcell alongside people, built on NVIDIA IGX Thor and the Halos safety platform, with Agility as the first company to integrate NVIDIA's Halos for Robotics into a humanoid safety system. Target: late 2026. Precision matters here: v5 is announced, not shipping; its 50 lb payload keeps getting misprinted as a current spec; and TÜV Rheinland's inspection role covers the NVIDIA components, not Digit itself. If v5 lands with fence-free clearance, it changes Digit's addressable work from tote cells to general floor space, which is the entire growth thesis behind the 1,000-robot order.

Safety: the standards story, precisely

In November 2025 Digit passed an OSHA-recognized NRTL safety field inspection at a live customer fulfillment site, assessed against ANSI/RIA R15.08 and ISO 13849, a first that Agility describes as "setting an important precedent for the humanoid industry" (Agility, official). Keep the scope exact, as Agility itself does: NRTL field evaluations are site-specific, so this is field labeling at one site, not a blanket product certification. The current robot also carries a genuine industrial safety package (CAT1 stop, PL d Safety PLC, E-stops, FSoE) from the ProMat 2025 refresh. The certification ambition, ISO functional-safety clearance for fence-free operation, rides on v5. No public safety incident involving Digit appears in any credible outlet through July 2026, a cleaner sheet than several rivals.

RoboFab and the new Fremont hub

Digit is built at RoboFab in Salem, Oregon, a 70,000 sq ft plant Agility calls the world's first humanoid factory, announced September 2023 with a capacity plan of hundreds in year one scaling toward 10,000+ a year and 500+ jobs at full tilt (Agility). Current actual output is unpublished; the honest proxies are the nine committed customer facilities and the ~1,000-robot booked order that SPAC proceeds are meant to scale into. And as of yesterday, July 16, 2026, Agility opened a second front: a 60,000 sq ft "Physical AI" software hub in Fremont, California, around 200 jobs, complementing the Oregon factory (announcement).

The company, and the SPAC

Agility is run by CEO Peggy Johnson (ex-Microsoft, ex-Magic Leap) since March 2024, with founders Damion Shelton as chairman and Jonathan Hurst as Chief Robot Officer still aboard. The funding ladder: roughly $400M Series C closed in early 2025, led by WP Global with SoftBank, Amazon's Industrial Innovation Fund, DCVC and Playground Global, at about $2.1 billion post-money (the circulating "$1.75B" was pre-money reporting). Then the big move: on June 24, 2026 Agility announced it is going public by merging with Churchill Capital Corp XI at a ~$2.5 billion implied valuation, expecting $600M+ in proceeds, under the ticker AGLT. A draft S-4 was confidentially submitted to the SEC on July 13, 2026 and announced the next day; the public S-4 filing, with audited financials, comes later in the process. If the deal closes as planned before year-end, Agility becomes the first US-listed pure-play humanoid company, which will drag the whole industry's claims into audited daylight, a development this page is built for. For the sector map, see our humanoid robot companies guide.

Digit vs the field

The two humanoids actually working for customers, Digit and the Walker S2, split the world between them: Digit owns verified per-site metrics and Western logistics; Walker owns audited volume and Chinese industry. Everything else on the list is a program, not a product. Head-to-head: Optimus vs Digit, and the full rankings in our best humanoid robots guide.

Who should contract Digit, and who shouldn't

Contract-ready: warehouses and 3PLs with tote-based workflows, AMR-to-conveyor handoffs, and enough volume to justify a workcell, the GXO template, plus manufacturers with structured material-handling tasks, the Toyota template. The path runs through Agility directly or the Zion integrator channel, with Ricoh servicing fleets. Not yet the right buyer: operations needing fence-free mobility (wait for v5's certification), tasks beyond structured tote/case handling (that is the whole industry's frontier, not just Digit's), or anyone shopping on sticker price, because there is none, and the ~$100,000-a-year modeled cost only pencils where the robot works long shifts. Households: Johnson herself says home robots are not the near-term plan.

What to watch, dated

Four threads move this page. The SPAC close, expected before end-2026, which converts management's metrics into audited filings and gives the industry its first public humanoid financials. Digit v5's late-2026 arrival and its fence-free safety clearance, the real capability unlock. The next metrics milestones, tote counts and fleet hours have been updated roughly twice a year. And expansion at the newest customers: Toyota beyond the contracted seven robots, Mercado Libre into Latin America. We re-verify this page at each.

The bottom line

Digit is the humanoid industry's existence proof: the robot that ended the "will anyone ever pay for this" argument with a tote count and a customer list. It is also deliberately unsexy, a 35-pound-payload specialist with no sticker price, no viral chores, and a spec sheet behind a download gate, and that is precisely why it works. Judge it as the industry's most verifiable robot: real contracts, real hours, real safety paperwork, real financials on their way to public markets, and real limits, thin margins for now, one job family, and a next generation still unshipped. The Digit record in our robot database tracks the verified state as it changes.