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Digit was the first humanoid robot people paid money to use. While other companies were building anthropomorphic showcases, Agility built a logistics robot that happened to be bipedal — bird-like reverse-knee legs, no face, no fingers, just grippers. It was a design accountable to a customer, not a press release.
The bet paid off. GXO Logistics contracted Digit fleets in 2024. Amazon ran pilots. Schaeffler signed on. Agility Robotics now says Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada signed a Robots-as-a-Service commercial agreement after a successful pilot and plans to deploy Digit in its facilities for manufacturing, supply-chain, and logistics support. Adamas Intelligence separately reported the initial Toyota Canada deployment as seven Digit robots at Woodstock for loading and unloading totes from automated tuggers; HumanoidRoster treats that as useful Tier B scale/task context, not as an official Agility/Toyota operating metric. Agility opened RoboFab in Salem, Oregon — the first U.S. factory built to produce humanoids at scale — before any of its competitors had a real production plan. Agility's current homepage also says Digit is assembled by its team in Salem, Oregon, with roughly 80% of nearly 6,000 parts sourced from the United States; HumanoidRoster treats that as manufacturer supply-chain context, not an audited bill of materials or production-capacity metric. By November 2025, Agility was citing more than 100,000 totes moved in commercial deployment. In December 2025, Agility also announced a Mercado Libre commercial agreement beginning in Texas, with possible later Latin America expansion. HumanoidRoster treats that as a named-customer signal, not as evidence for unit count, throughput, autonomy rate, uptime, or full regional rollout. In June 2026, Agility announced a definitive business-combination agreement with Churchill Capital Corp XI, a $2.5 billion pre-money equity value, more than $620 million in expected gross proceeds including about $200 million of PIPE financing, and more than $300 million of multi-year contracted Digit v5 orders secured to date. The same announcement said deployment commitments across nine customer facilities had accumulated more than 65,000 hours of Digit operation, and that roughly 75% of Digit parts are sourced within the United States. That is material business, orderbook, operating-hours, and supply-chain context, but it remains company-reported and pending-transaction evidence rather than proof of shipped v5 units or independently verified field operating metrics.
The Reality Score for Digit rewards what Digit lacks: spectacle. There is no parkour video, no kitchen demo, no general-intelligence claim. There is a robot, in a warehouse, moving totes. That is what the score is meant to reward.
Agility's own public framing now reinforces that caution. In a May 2026 article on the pathway to home robots, the company argued that home humanoids are still constrained by capability, cost, and safety, and that Agility will move toward home use only when it can do so responsibly. TechCrunch's July 2026 CEO interview similarly frames Agility's SPAC path as execution-focused rather than a near-term home-robot promise. For Digit, that is not a new commercial milestone; it is support for the industrial-first interpretation already reflected here.
Reality check
Digit is the most commercially-deployed humanoid in the world. The form factor — bird-like legs, no face, no fingers, just grippers — is the most honest about what the technology can do today. Agility Robotics has now primary-confirmed Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada as a Robots-as-a-Service commercial agreement after a successful pilot and announced a Mercado Libre commercial agreement beginning in Texas, strengthening Digit's named-customer evidence without adding unverified unit counts or operating metrics.
- Manufacturer-published specs — 35 lb payload, 4-hour battery
- GXO Logistics, Amazon, and Schaeffler are confirmed customers (named on Agility's product page)
- Agility Robotics says Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada signed a Robots-as-a-Service commercial agreement after a successful pilot and plans to deploy Digit in its facilities to support manufacturing, supply-chain, and logistics operations
- Adamas Intelligence reported that TMMC's initial RaaS deployment is seven Digit robots at the Woodstock, Ontario facility for repetitive logistics work including loading and unloading totes from automated tuggers; HumanoidRoster treats the seven-unit/task description as Tier B reporting until Agility or Toyota publishes the same details directly
- Agility Robotics says Mercado Libre signed a commercial agreement to deploy Digit, beginning in Texas with future expansion capability for Latin America
- Agility's RoboFab in Salem, OR is the first U.S. purpose-built humanoid factory
- Agility says Digit is assembled by the Agility team in Salem, Oregon, with roughly 80% of its nearly 6,000 parts sourced from the United States
- Agility published a "100,000 totes moved in commercial deployment" milestone in November 2025
- Agility Robotics announced a definitive business-combination agreement with Churchill Capital Corp XI, expected ticker AGLT, a $2.5 billion pre-money equity value, more than $620 million in expected gross proceeds including about $200 million of PIPE financing, and more than $300 million of multi-year contracted Digit v5 orders secured to date
- Agility says deployment commitments across nine customer facilities have accumulated more than 65,000 hours of Digit operation, and that roughly 75% of Digit parts are sourced within the United States
- NVIDIA says Agility is the first company incorporating elements of NVIDIA Halos into its proprietary safety system for Digit; NVIDIA also says Digit uses NVIDIA IGX Thor and Halos Core and that Agility will participate in the NVIDIA Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab before final third-party certification
- Independent Georgia Tech, EPFL, and Tohoku researchers validated the L2T-RL locomotion controller on Digit hardware, reporting zero-shot simulation-to-real transfer across more than 12 challenging terrains without a depth-estimation module
- Earlier coverage cited "16-hour" continuous operation; Agility's current spec is a 4-hour battery with hot-swap supporting shift-long deployment
- Agility's May 2026 home-humanoid article says near-term home use remains constrained by humanoid capability, cost, and safety; this supports Digit's industrial-first framing rather than a new deployment, spec, or score change
- Agility's June 2026 SPAC/orderbook/operating-hours announcement is company-reported, pending-transaction business context and does not prove shipped Digit v5 units, independently verified customer operating metrics, autonomy rate, uptime, safety, or transaction close
- TechCrunch's July 2026 CEO interview frames Agility's SPAC path as execution-focused and explicitly not a near-term home-robot promise; HumanoidRoster keeps Digit positioned as industrial/logistics-first and does not infer consumer-home roadmap traction from Agility's public-listing plan
- NVIDIA's June 2026 Halos language is official safety-stack and compute-roadmap evidence; it does not prove completed third-party certification, improved autonomy, customer uptime, or field safety metrics