Agility unveils Digit 5, a humanoid built to work without cages

Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5 on 15 September 2026. What the company leads with is not strength but proximity: the robot is built to work near people without the physical barriers conventional industrial automation requires.

Three systems carry that claim. Safe human detection combines several sensors with the company’s own perception models. Safety cues are visual and auditory signals that tell a nearby worker what the robot is about to do. Safe motion control runs on an independent safety controller, kept separate from the stack that decides what the robot intends. The separation is the point — a planner that fails cannot talk the safety layer out of stopping. Agility says it contributes to the ANSI/A3 TR R15.108 and ISO 25785-1 safety standards that will eventually judge such designs.

The rest is capacity. Digit 5 lifts 50 lb (22.7 kg), 40 percent more than Digit 4, and reaches 7.2 feet. It stands 5 ft 11 in (1.81 m) and weighs 284 lb (129 kg). A 90-minute battery recharges in nine minutes, a ten-to-one ratio of work to charging against the previous two-to-one.

Agility reported more than $300 million in multi-year customer orders as of May 2026. Early access begins in the first half of 2027 and general availability by the end of that year, with a CE mark expected for Europe.