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Agility Robotics Digit
The first humanoid with a real job.
We haven't tested this machine hands-on, so this profile carries no rating — every fact below traces to the sources at the end, and the judgments are clearly ours. Full methodology on the Robot Tracker.
At a glance
- Status
- ShippingReal units delivered to paying customers
- Can you buy it?
- Yes
- Price
- Robots-as-a-Service — leased, not sold outright
- Form factor
- Bipedal mobile manipulator
- AI brain
- In-house
- Maker
- Agility Robotics (US)
- Backing
- Going public via SPAC at $2.5bn (announced Jun 2026); backed by Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank
Whatever happens next in this industry, Agility owns a milestone nobody can take back: in June 2024, its Digit robots started the first formal commercial humanoid deployment anywhere — moving totes in GXO's Spanx warehouse in Georgia under a multi-year Robots-as-a-Service contract. Not a pilot, not a demo: revenue-generating robots at a customer site.
Two years later, the Oregon company is going public via a SPAC merger valuing it at $2.5bn — the first listed pure-play humanoid maker in the US — with Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, and Foxconn behind it and customers including Toyota, Schaeffler, and Mercado Libre. Digit's scope is deliberately narrow (totes, bins, structured logistics work), and Agility leases rather than sells. Narrow, boring, and real: it's the template the rest of the industry is chasing.
What's real
- • The industry's first formal commercial humanoid deployment (GXO/Spanx, RaaS, 2024) — still the cleanest 'it works' evidence anywhere
- • Named paying customers: GXO, Toyota, Schaeffler, Mercado Libre; backing from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, Foxconn
- • Going public brings disclosure the private rivals don't offer
Know before you watch (or buy)
- • Deliberately narrow: Digit moves totes and bins in structured warehouse workflows — don't extrapolate to general-purpose labor
- • RaaS-only: businesses lease outcomes; nobody 'owns a Digit'
- • The SPAC route to listing involves lighter disclosure than a traditional IPO — scrutinize the projections
The evidence
The industry's first formal commercial humanoid deployment (GXO's Spanx warehouse, RaaS, 2024); customers include Toyota, Schaeffler, Mercado Libre.
Sources: Agility Robotics / GXO · AP News
Bottom line
The most honest company in the category: it picked one job humanoids can actually do, did it commercially first, and is scaling from there. For SMBs curious about humanoid labor, Digit's RaaS model is the realistic entry point — for everyone else, it's the benchmark for 'deployed' claims.
FAQ
What was the first commercial humanoid robot deployment?
Agility Robotics' Digit at GXO's Spanx warehouse in Georgia, announced June 2024 — a multi-year Robots-as-a-Service agreement in which Digit moves totes in live logistics operations. It was both the first formal commercial humanoid deployment and the first humanoid RaaS deal.
Can a business get Digit robots?
Yes, via Robots-as-a-Service: Agility deploys and manages Digit fleets (with its Agility Arc cloud platform) under multi-year contracts rather than selling robots outright. Customers include GXO, Toyota, Schaeffler, and Mercado Libre.