Agility announces Digit 5: early access in the first half of 2027, no price yet

On 15 September 2026, Agility Robotics announced Digit 5, the successor to Digit 4, its humanoid for warehouses and factories. It is not on sale yet. Agility's press release gives early access in the first half of 2027 and general availability for manufacturing, warehouse and distribution operators by the end of 2027.

What changed for a buyer

• A timeline, but no price. Both dates are maker-stated. Agility has not published a price to buy or rent Digit 5.
• Europe and the UK. The Robot Report (15 September 2026) says Digit 5 will be the first Digit offered for commercial deployment outside North America, starting with the EU and the UK. Agility says it expects a CE mark. It has not announced one.
• No safety fences. Agility says Digit 5 can work close to people without physical barriers. Bloomberg (16 September 2026) notes that earlier Digit models had to operate behind them.

What Agility says Digit 5 does

All figures below are maker-stated and have not been tested independently:

• Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in), weight 129 kg (284 lb), reach up to 2.2 m (7.2 ft).
• Repeated lifts of up to 22.7 kg (50 lb), which Agility calls 40% more payload than Digit 4.
• A 90-minute battery that charges in 9 minutes: a 10:1 run-to-charge ratio, against 2:1 for Digit 4. The Robot Report says this allows more than 20 hours of work in a 24-hour day.
• New, more human-like legs with cycloidal actuators, replacing the backward-bending knees, and swappable grippers on ISO-standard mounting flanges.
• 360-degree person detection and an independent safety controller that makes the robot avoid, stop or sit down.

Co-founder Jonathan Hurst told The Robot Report that the robot must be statically stable and "turn off its motors before a person can touch it." Bloomberg adds that legged robots remain a bigger safety risk near people than wheeled ones.

How it compares

Digit 5 is much larger than the robot on our Digit model sheet. IEEE Spectrum reported in December 2023 that Digit stood 1.75 m, weighed 65 kg and lifted 16 kg. Digit 5 is about twice as heavy.

On paper, its nearest rival is Boston Dynamics Atlas. Boston Dynamics lists Atlas at 1.9 m and 90 kg, with a 30 kg sustained payload, a 4-hour runtime and self-swapping batteries. It said in January 2026 that all 2026 Atlas deployments were already committed to Hyundai and Google DeepMind, with more customers in early 2027. For other business buyers, both robots arrive in the same window.

The company behind it

Agility says it had more than $300 million in multi-year orders for Digit 5 as of May 2026. The Robot Report (24 June 2026) says these orders are subject to contractual milestones. Agility is going public through a SPAC merger valuing it at $2.5 billion. Bloomberg reports about $1.8 million in 2025 revenue and a $140 million operating loss. In June, Agility's CFO said Digit is offered as robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) or by direct purchase, and put the Digit 4 bill of materials at $125,000. That is a build cost, not a price.

Still unconfirmed

• The price of Digit 5, to buy or to rent.
• Whether Digit 4 customers can upgrade, and on what terms.
• Independent measurements of the 90-minute runtime and 9-minute charge.
• The date of the CE mark.