Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5, a general-purpose humanoid robot designed to operate near people without the physical safety cages traditionally required for industrial robots. The machine builds on more than 65,000 hours of commercial operation by its predecessor, Digit 4, at customer sites including GXO, Schaeffler, Amazon and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada. Its safety architecture combines proprietary artificial-intelligence algorithms with a multimodal sensor array to detect nearby people and select responses such as crouching, stopping or signaling intended movement. Digit 5 uses NVIDIA's IGX Thor hardware and the company's Halos for Robotics safety software, while Agility is participating in development of the ISO 25785-1 international safety standard for industrial mobile robots. Hardware improvements include 40% greater payload capacity, allowing repeated lifts of up to 50 pounds, a 90-minute runtime after a nine-minute charge, a larger reach and swappable grippers. Production is being retooled at Agility's 70,000-square-foot RoboFab facility, which is designed to produce up to 10,000 robots annually at full capacity. Early access is scheduled for the first half of 2027, with broader availability targeted by year-end. Agility held more than $300 million in multi-year Digit 5 customer orders as of May 2026, subject to contractual milestones, and is preparing for a U.S. SPAC listing in the fourth quarter of 2026.