Agility Digit (v4, current fleet)

What it's for

Digit v4 is a robot for one very specific job: moving totes. Digit moves plastic totes onto pallets or onto the next line, the monotonous, repetitive work that Agility Robotics assigned to Digit and built its whole company around. The robot carries about 15.9 kg (35 lb), weighs under 200 lb and runs about 4 hours on a single charge, so it is at its best in short, intense cycles with frequent recharging.

The best-documented use is warehouse logistics. Digit went into GXO Logistics facilities (a pilot at the Spanx plant near Atlanta was announced in December 2023, and in June 2024 the robot began carrying out tasks at a GXO site) and into Amazon warehouses, with Amazon announcing a test collaboration in the same month as GXO. In September 2026 Agility reported a Digit deployment at Mercado Libre at a facility in San Antonio, Texas. It is a good test for the whole industry, because these are working logistics hubs, not labs.

The second field is manufacturing: named customers include Schaeffler and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada. Here the robot handles material flow between stations. It does not assemble, weld or paint. That is an important distinction: Digit does not replace a cobot at a workbench, it takes over the internal transport that forklift operators and line workers used to do.

What does the robot not do? It is not a household assistant, is unsuited to food service or hospitality, and has no hands for precise manipulation. If your problem is moving crates, pallets and totes in a repeatable layout, Digit has the longest documented track record on the market. If your problem is something else, look in the humanoid robots category or among AMR mobile robots rather than forcing a humanoid to fit. We cover deployments in more detail in “Agility Digit in Warehouses”; warehouse applications are collected on the warehouse page and factory ones on factories.

Who it's for

Who it is for. Large logistics operators and manufacturing plants that handle hundreds of tote flows a day, have stable infrastructure (flat floor, repeatable stations, a WMS) and are ready for a subscription model. Digit is billed as robots-as-a-service, so it suits companies that would rather pay for an outcome than buy a fixed asset. It also makes sense for innovation teams at large groups that want a pilot on hardware with a real track record; more than 65,000 hours of production work were documented by the manufacturer itself.

Who it is not for. Small firms with a single warehouse and a few pallets a day: integration and subscription costs will not pay back in a reasonable time, and a cheaper alternative would be a cart, a conveyor or an AMR robot. Nor is it a proposition for anyone who wants to buy a robot outright: Agility publishes no unit price and does not sell in Poland. I would also not recommend it where tasks change every day and need dexterous hands.

Practical advice: before you start talking to the manufacturer, count how many totes your team moves per shift and how much of that is truly repeatable. Without that number you can judge neither payback nor whether a pilot makes sense. The basics of cost assessment are in “Humanoid Robot TCO: How to Calculate Total Cost”, and how to read declared parameters is in “How to Read a Robot Datasheet”.

Deployments

The commercial deployments of Digit v4 named by the manufacturer and in sources are Amazon, GXO Logistics, Schaeffler, Mercado Libre and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada; the manufacturer speaks of a fleet of about 1,000 units and more than 65,000 hours of production work. The latest news: a deployment at Mercado Libre in San Antonio (September 2026). The robot is not offered in Poland. On the Polish market you can get AMR mobile robots and cobots (see “AMR Robots in the Warehouse”) as well as research humanoids such as Unitree G1. A map of domestic companies is in “Polish Robotics Companies”.

Digit v4 has few direct rivals with a comparable track record today, but a few directions are worth knowing.

• Agility Digit 5 is the successor from the same maker: a 22.7 kg payload instead of 15.9 kg and a larger vertical reach, but early access only in the first half of 2027. Worth waiting for if your horizon is longer than a year.
• Apptronik Apollo offers a payload of up to 25 kg and a swappable battery, and is being tested by Mercedes and GXO. Still pilots, with no public price.
• Figure 02 is a humanoid deployed at BMW's Spartanburg plant, aimed more at automotive production than classic logistics.
• Atlas is the electric Atlas, directed toward industry: greater ambition, but less commercial track record.
• Tesla Optimus Gen 3 is an announcement with enormous publicity and, for now, no offer for outside customers.

If all you need is tote transport, consider classic AMR robots, which we cover in “AMR Robots in the Warehouse”.

Digit is a product of Agility Robotics, a company founded in 2015 in Salem, Oregon. The new version was unveiled at the ProMat trade show in March 2023. In December 2023 the company opened RoboFab in Salem, which it describes as the first mass-production factory for humanoids. That same month brought a pilot with GXO Logistics at the Spanx plant near Atlanta and the announcement of the Amazon collaboration; in June 2024 Digit began carrying out tasks at a GXO site. In March 2026 the company shortened its name to “Agility”. In September 2026 Digit 5 was shown, a successor designed for safer work close to people. So the v4 is a fleet that blazed the trail for the next generation.