Digit is not sold as a single unit from a catalogue. Agility Robotics‘ bipedal humanoid robot is deployed at major manufacturers and logistics companies under multi-year contracts. The model the company promotes is Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS), a form of rental bundled with services. Agility publishes no price, either for purchase or for rental. The version in service at customer sites is Digit v4. Digit 5 was unveiled on 15 September 2026 and will enter early access in the first half of 2027 in the United States and Canada. General availability is announced for the end of 2027, and expansion is planned to the European Union and the United Kingdom.
How Agility deploys Digit: multi-year contracts with large customers
Agility is aimed at operators of manufacturing, warehouse and distribution sites with Digit 5. The robots are managed through Agility Arc, the company’s cloud platform for deployment and fleet management. Financial documents refer to Digit 5 as Digit v5.
On 24 June 2026, Agility and Churchill Capital Corp XI issued a joint press release, filed with the SEC, announcing their merger. In it, Agility reports more than $300 million in multi-year Digit v5 orders, “subject to the realization of certain contractual milestones”. The release also mentions a pipeline of more than 30 prospective customers for this version.
The June 2026 investor presentation, also filed with the SEC, explains this figure in a footnote. It “relates to 1,000 Digit v5 robots with three-year term RaaS contract”, meaning 1,000 Digit v5 robots rented under a three-year RaaS contract. The contract comes with warrants that vest as the robots are deployed. The amount represents potential value spread over several years, not revenue for a given period. No customer is named.
The merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI values Agility at $2.5 billion before the transaction. Expected gross proceeds exceed $620 million, including a private placement (PIPE) of about $200 million at $10 a share, led by Foxconn. Closing is expected in 2026, subject to conditions, with a planned ticker symbol of “AGLT”.
How much does Digit cost? $8,500 a month is a presentation assumption, not a price
The June 2026 investor presentation contains a business model that its footnote explicitly describes as “illustrative”. These are not official prices.
In the RaaS scenario, Agility uses $8,500 per month per Digit (“$8,500 monthly SaaS pricing per Digit”), or about $100,000 a year. On top of that comes a one-time deployment fee of about $25,000.
In the purchase (“ownership”) scenario, the illustrative deployment fee is about $20,000 and the five-year cost about $400,000. For its part, the company assumes a deployment cost of about $15,000 per robot and a useful life of five years.
Forbes, in an article dated 15 September 2026 and reproduced in an SEC filing (Form 425), cites “about $8,500 per robot per month” and attributes it to this presentation. The magazine also mentions a backlog of about 1,000 robots under RaaS. The presentation itself clearly lists this amount among its illustrative assumptions.
The same presentation puts the bill of materials (BOM) cost of a Digit v4 at about $125,000. For Digit v5, management is targeting a cost of $50,000 to $100,000 at scale. These are manufacturing cost targets, not selling prices.
On the financial side, the presentation reports 2025 operating expenses of $111 million, including $74 million in R&D and $37 million in selling, general and administrative expenses (preliminary, unaudited figures). It does not give 2025 revenue. The Robot Report puts net sales at $1.8 million, based on SEC filings.
Digit release date: v4 in service, Digit 5 expected in 2027
Digit v4 has been working at production sites for about three years, according to The Robot Report. The June 2026 presentation lists nine committed deployments at customer facilities and 65,000 cumulative operating hours as of May 2026. Based on management’s understanding of publicly available information, Digit v4 is “the first humanoid to receive NRTL approval in a customer’s commercial production line”. NRTL stands for Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory, a US designation.
The launch press release of 15 September 2026 sets out the Digit 5 timeline:
- early access “expected to begin in the first half of 2027”;
- general availability at the end of 2027 for manufacturing, warehouse and distribution operators.
Digit 5 is therefore not yet shipping in volume.
Sources differ on this timeline:
- The June 2026 investor presentation listed the Digit v5 release as “planned 2026”, based on management’s expectations. The September press release places the start of early access in the first half of 2027.
- The 15 October 2026 announcement about battery supplier Nyobolt confirms early access in the first half of 2027. It refers to broader availability “over the following six to nine months”.
Production takes place at the RoboFab in Salem, Oregon, a 70,000-square-foot factory. Agility gives it a maximum capacity of 10,000 robots a year when running at full capacity. This is an announced capacity, not a volume produced or delivered. The company has more than 500 employees and says it sources about 75% of Digit’s parts in the United States. It also has offices in Pittsburgh (engineering and testing) and in Fremont, opened in July 2026.
Is Digit available in Europe? US and Canada first
Agility’s current markets are the United States and Canada. The Digit 5 launch press release announces expansion to the European Union and the United Kingdom, starting with early access.
For the European Union, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Agility describes CE marking and other regulatory markings as “expected”. They are anticipated, not obtained. According to Jonathan Hurst, interviewed for our article of 21 October 2026, CE, UL and FCC requirements served as design references. They do not amount to certification.
Agility highlights its role in standardisation:
- project lead for the ANSI/A3 TR R15.108 technical report;
- contributor to ISO 25785-1, which the press release describes as the first international safety standard for humanoids. The investor presentation describes it in some places as an “approved standard” and in others as a “proposed and led working group”;
- launch partner for NVIDIA Halos.
The main known industrial link with Europe is the battery. It is supplied by Nyobolt, a company founded in 2019 in Cambridge, in the United Kingdom.
Digit customers named by Agility
Agility and its financial documents name several customers. The declared uses are in manufacturing, distribution and logistics.
- GXO: at Flowery Branch, Digit moved more than 100,000 totes with 98% accuracy. This November 2025 milestone appears in the investor presentation and was reported by Forbes via the Form 425.
- Schaeffler: in November 2024, the group took a minority stake in Agility and bought Digit robots for its global network, according to The Robot Report. Its chief operating officer, Andreas Schick, spoke of the potential for “a significant number of humanoids in our global network of 100 plants by 2030”.
- Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada: listed among the deployments in the June 2026 press release and in the investor presentation.
- Amazon: named in the investor presentation. The Robot Report cites it for early work with Digit.
AGCO: Digit pilot at the Hesston plant from 2027
On 20 October 2026, AGCO (brands Fendt, Massey Ferguson, PTx, Valtra) and Agility announced a commercial agreement for humanoid automation in manufacturing. A pilot is due to begin in 2027 at AGCO’s production site in Hesston, Kansas, using the Digit robot. It is not yet in operation.
The first planned tasks are sorting and stacking parts and positioning storage totes. The press release also mentions support for assembly and production operations. The two companies expect gains in ergonomics and efficiency, as well as the reassignment of employees to higher-value tasks.
The press release quotes Thomas Enghof, director of Manufacturing Technology at AGCO, and Daniel Diez, Chief Business Officer at Agility.
Digit 5 specifications
Figures published by Agility in the 15 September 2026 press release and, for Digit v4, in the June 2026 investor presentation.
| Specification | Digit 5 | Digit v4 |
|---|---|---|
| Weight | 129 kg (284 lb) | – |
| Height | 1.81 m (5’11”) | – |
| Maximum reach | 2.2 m (7.2 ft) | 5.5 ft |
| Payload | repeated lifts of up to 22.7 kg (50 lb) | up to 35 lb |
| Runtime | 90 minutes | – |
| Charging time | 9 minutes, autonomous charging | – |
| Run-to-charge ratio | 10:1 | 2:1 |
| Claimed productive time over 24 hours | more than 20 hours (press release); about 22 hours (investor presentation) | about 16 hours (investor presentation) |
| Actuators | proprietary cycloidal | – |
| End effectors | interchangeable, ISO-standard mounting flanges | – |
| Sensors | cameras, depth sensors, inertial measurement units (IMUs) | – |
| Compute | based on NVIDIA IGX Thor and Halos Core infrastructure | – |
| Safety | AI-based and multi-sensor person detection; avoid, stop or sit-down responses; visual and audible signals; independent safety controller | – |
| Software | integration with Agility Arc | – |
The press release states that the legs now use a more human-like configuration. According to The Robot Report, they drop the “backward-knee” configuration. Agility also claims that Digit is the first humanoid to pass an independent OSHA-standard field evaluation on a customer production line. The publication also reports 360-degree person detection, without fixed zones.
According to The Robot Report, Digit 5 expands on the tasks of Digit 4, which focused on tote handling. It adds depalletising, palletising, machine tending, kitting and quality inspection.
What we do not know yet
- Price and terms: the price and RaaS terms for Digit 5 at general availability remain unknown. It is also unclear whether Agility will offer terms suited to small and medium-sized businesses.
- Installed base: the number of Digit robots delivered or in service and the total number of customers have not been disclosed.
- 1,000-robot contract: the customer’s identity remains unknown.
- Timeline: no precise general availability date has been set, and sources give conflicting timelines.
- Europe and France: no delivery date has been announced for the European Union or the United Kingdom. There has been no announcement concerning France, either for sales or for delivery.
- Certifications: CE marking has not been obtained. Agility claims no ISO certification for Digit 5.
- Specifications: Agility states that features, specifications and design are subject to change. Some safety functions are still in development and do not “eliminate all operational risk”.
- Performance: battery life and walking speed have not been disclosed. Digit 5’s performance has not been independently measured, and the more than 20 productive hours per day are an Agility calculation, not a measurement in operation.
- Customer agreements: for AGCO, the Digit version used, the number of robots, the contract value and, eventually, the results of the pilot are unknown. For Schaeffler, the size of the investment and the number of robots purchased remain unknown.
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