Agility Robotics
Oregon-based humanoid maker; Digit is in production at GXO Logistics warehouses since Sep-2024 — claimed first humanoid in commercial service in the US. Spinout of Oregon State University. $400M+ raised (Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund participant).
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At a glance
- Tier
- T2
- Created
- 2015 (founded; OSU spinout) vendor fix
- Latest release
- Digit 5 (unveiled 2026-09-15; early access H1 2027, GA by end-2027) vendor fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) — vendor reports per-hour rates vendor fix
- Funding
- Going public via merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI (announced 2026-06-24; $2.5B pre-money; Nasdaq: AGLT); S-4 effective, vote 2026-11-02, close expected 2026-11 vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-26 fix
- Layer
- large-models repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: Production warehouse bipedal humanoid
Anti-fit: Warehouse-pick-and-place focus; bipedal-only; closed platform
Pros & cons
Pros
First US humanoid in commercial service; GXO production case; RaaS pricing model.
Cons
Narrow warehouse focus; not a foundation-model story (legacy controls + ML hybrid); closed platform.
Claims & capabilities
Digit in commercial production at GXO Sep-2024; first US humanoid in commercial service
Technical surface
- API surface
- Closed; warehouse-integration API for partners
- Backend storage
- Internal cloud
- Deployment
- Warehouse deployment; RaaS model
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- Per-customer fleet
- MCP
- not applicable — wrong section
- A2A
- not applicable — wrong section
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — wrong section
Similar systems
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- Collaborative Robotics T3
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- Covariant T2
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Sources (35 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is Bipedal warehouse robot maker (Digit) — first US humanoid commercial deployment vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Oregon-based humanoid maker; Digit is in production at GXO Logistics warehouses since Se… vendor
- Claims / benefits Digit in commercial production at GXO Sep-2024; first US humanoid in commercial service vendor
- Modalities vision + language + bipedal action vendor
- Created 2015 (founded; OSU spinout) vendor
- Latest release Digit 5 (unveiled 2026-09-15; early access H1 2027, GA by end-2027) vendor
- Mindshare Strong logistics mindshare; first US humanoid in production vendor
- Funding Going public via merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI (announced 2026-06-24; $2.5B pre-… vendor
- Customers / scale GXO Logistics (production); Amazon (Industrial Innovation Fund + pilot) vendor
- Pricing Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) — vendor reports per-hour rates vendor
- Compliance Industrial safety standards; no public SOC 2 vendor
- Data handling Customer trajectory data; closed weights vendor
- Deployment Warehouse deployment; RaaS model vendor
- HQ US (Salem, Oregon) vendor
- Founders / pedigree Jonathan Hurst + Damion Shelton (Oregon State University spinout) vendor
- Memory volume / scale Production fleet in GXO warehouses; tens of units vendor
- Performance Vendor: tote-handling cycle times in warehouse settings vendor
- API surface Closed; warehouse-integration API for partners vendor
- Throughput Vendor: tote-handling rate metrics (confidential) vendor
- Backend storage Internal cloud vendor
- Multi-tenancy Per-customer fleet vendor
- Encryption Enterprise-grade vendor
- Versioning Digit V-generation versioning vendor
- Namespace primitives per-customer / per-warehouse vendor
- Validated verticals warehousing (GXO); end-of-line tote movement vendor
- Time to running Weeks-months (warehouse cell setup) vendor
- Anti-fit Warehouse-pick-and-place focus; bipedal-only; closed platform vendor
- Optimised for Production warehouse bipedal humanoid vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund; GXO Logistics; OSU vendor
- Pros First US humanoid in commercial service; GXO production case; RaaS pricing model. vendor
- Cons Narrow warehouse focus; not a foundation-model story (legacy controls + ML hybrid); clos… vendor
- Project & sources agilityrobotics.com vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup large-models repo
What changed
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- 2026-10-26
- Latest release “Digit V4 / V6 (2024-2025)” → “Digit 5 (unveiled 2026-09-15; early access H1 2027, GA by end-2027)” source
- Funding / ownership “$400M+ total — including $150M Series B 2022 (DCVC + Playground); Amazon IIF participant” → “Going public via merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI (announced 2026-06-24; $2.5B pre-money; Nasdaq: AGLT); S-4 effective, vote 2026-11-02, close expected 2026-11” source