Agility Digit Deployment Tracker (2026)
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Agility Robotics' Digit is the most commercially deployed humanoid robot in the world as of mid-2026. The best estimate of its installed base is roughly 75 units globally, with a plausible range of 40 to 150. No Western humanoid peer has a comparable verified record of productive work.
Only two sites are publicly verified as high-duty live operations. GXO's SPANX facility in Flowery Branch, Georgia has moved over 100,000 totes since June 2024. Schaeffler's Cheraw, South Carolina plant has run 8-hour daily factory shifts since early 2025. That is roughly 15 months of continuous factory work. Every other customer relationship is a pilot, a first-site ramp, or a testing engagement.
Four commercial agreements are signed. GXO in June 2024, Schaeffler with an equity stake in November 2024, Mercado Libre in December 2025, and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada in February 2026. Amazon has been testing Digit at its Sumner, WA facility since October 2023 with no disclosed commercial relationship.
No customer has a publicly verified multi-site Digit fleet. Schaeffler's "100 plants by 2030" statement remains aspirational, not footprint. Digit passed the first OSHA-recognized NRTL safety field inspection at a live customer site in November 2025.
Every current Digit operates inside a cage or segregated zone because the robot cannot yet detect humans. CEO Peggy Johnson targets a cooperatively safe Digit v5 for early 2027. The ISO 25875 safety standard is roughly 3 to 4 years from ratification.
Agility raised around $400 million in 2025 at a valuation of roughly $2 billion. Its RoboFab factory in Salem, Oregon has 10,000 units per year of nameplate capacity but is running at 8 units per shift. Per-hour operating cost is $10 to $25 today, targeting $2 to $3 long-term.
Realistic timeline based on current evidence: 1,000 deployed Digits in the 2028 to 2029 window, 10,000 in 2032 to 2034, and 100,000 no earlier than 2036. Each milestone is gated by cooperative-safety certification, customer rollout friction, and service footprint scaling, not by factory capacity.
Agility Digit Deployment Milestone Tracker
This table tracks every publicly verified Digit deployment-related announcement as of mid-2026, ranked from most recent to oldest. It separates signed commercial agreements, completed pilots, and live operating deployments, because these are very different commercial states that marketing often bundles together. Several rows are communication milestones rather than proof of scaled fleet operation.
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| Company | Announcement date | Deployment status | Geography | Customer type | Commercial model | Agreement signed | Pilot completed | Deployment live | Use case | Proof point disclosed | Data Confidence | Additional comments | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada | Feb 2026 | Ramping up | Toyota's RAV4 assembly plant in Cambridge, Ontario, about an hour west of Toronto | Automotive OEM | Commercial RaaS after pilot | Yes | Yes | Partial | Unloading totes of auto parts from warehouse tuggers onto the RAV4 assembly line | Year-long pilot completed; expanding to 7 to 10 robots at the Cambridge plant | High | Small initial fleet, single plant, narrow task scope | Agility Robotics |
| Mercado Libre | Dec 2025 | Ramping up | Mercado Libre's US fulfillment facility in San Antonio, Texas, with planned Latin America expansion | E-commerce and logistics | Commercial agreement | Yes | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Initial commerce fulfillment tasks at San Antonio with stated plans for Latin America expansion | Commercial agreement announced; no live-operation metrics yet released publicly | Medium | Agreement disclosed; no public operational data yet | Agility Robotics |
| Agility Robotics | Nov 2025 | Live deployment | Undisclosed ecommerce customer site in the United States where Digit passed the NRTL field audit | Regulatory milestone at live site | Not disclosed | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Yes | Automated putwall and tote recycling workflows at a live ecommerce customer during the safety audit | First humanoid robot to pass an OSHA-recognized NRTL field audit at a live site | High | First humanoid with OSHA-recognized NRTL field pass | Agility Robotics |
| GXO | Nov 2025 | Live deployment | GXO's SPANX fulfillment warehouse in Flowery Branch, Georgia, Agility's flagship high-duty deployment site | Third-party logistics (3PL) | Multi-year RaaS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Moving totes from autonomous mobile robots onto conveyor belts and stacking totes in a live warehouse | Over 100,000 totes moved in commercial operation since the June 2024 agreement | High | Single-site fleet; the only verified high-throughput site | Agility Robotics |
| Schaeffler | Mar 2026 | Live deployment | Schaeffler's bearing component manufacturing plant in Cheraw, South Carolina, part of its US industrial footprint | Industrial manufacturer (bearings) | Commercial purchase with investment | Yes | Yes | Yes | Moving 25-pound baskets of bearing components from a stamping press to a washer during 8-hour shifts | Wall Street Journal reported 8-hour daily operation in Plexiglas cage since early 2025 | High | Single robot confirmed; more planned; caged operation | Humanoids Daily |
| Schaeffler | Nov 2024 | Agreement signed | Schaeffler Group headquarters in Germany, with a global network of roughly 100 manufacturing plants | Industrial manufacturer (bearings) | Investment plus purchase agreement | Yes | Undisclosed | Partial | Planned deployment of a significant number of humanoid robots across Schaeffler's global network of 100 plants | Schaeffler took equity stake and signed global deployment agreement targeting 100 plants by 2030 | Medium | 2030 target is aspirational, not verified footprint | Agility Robotics |
| GXO | Jun 2024 | Live deployment | GXO's SPANX fulfillment warehouse in Flowery Branch, Georgia, the first commercial humanoid deployment site globally | Third-party logistics (3PL) | Multi-year RaaS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Tote transfer between autonomous mobile robots and conveyors as the first commercial humanoid deployment | First formal humanoid commercial deployment worldwide under multi-year Robots-as-a-Service agreement | High | Still the only verified high-duty live Digit site today | Agility Robotics |
| Agility Partner Program | 2024 | Ramping up | Agility's Salem, Oregon factory plus undisclosed partner sites under the Agility Partner Program | Multiple partner customers | Early-access program | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Partial | General material handling across Agility's Salem factory and early-access partner sites | First Digits built at RoboFab delivered to early-access partners during 2024 | Medium | Number of sites and units not publicly specified | Agility Robotics |
| GXO | Oct 2023 | Pilot completed | GXO's SPANX fulfillment warehouse in Flowery Branch, Georgia, where the 2023 holiday pilot took place | Third-party logistics (3PL) | Pilot | Yes | Yes | Yes | Tote movement from autonomous mobile robots onto conveyors during the 2023 holiday season peak | Public pilot confirmed and completed during 2023 holiday retail season at SPANX | High | Led directly to the 2024 commercial deployment agreement | GXO |
| Amazon | Oct 2023 | Testing | Amazon's R&D facility in Sumner, Washington, about 30 miles south of Seattle | E-commerce and logistics | Testing (not RaaS disclosed) | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Tote recycling and consolidation workflows at Amazon's R&D facility in Sumner, Washington | Amazon confirmed ongoing R&D testing with no public field-scale operation metrics | Medium | No verified public multi-site Amazon deployment yet | TechCrunch |
What are the hard, publicly verified data points about Agility Digit deployments as of today?
Around a dozen primary-source facts describe Digit's deployment state as of mid-2026: one high-throughput warehouse, one live factory, four signed commercial agreements, one testing relationship, one safety certification, and a factory running well below capacity.
Agility has never disclosed an installed-base count, so the public picture is built from specific customer milestones, capacity disclosures, and funding events. Taken together they give a reasonably complete map of where Digit actually is today.
Here are the most important verified facts:
- GXO Flowery Branch moved over 100,000 totes in commercial operation as of November 2025
- Schaeffler Cheraw has run Digit on 8-hour daily factory shifts since early 2025
- Toyota Canada signed a commercial agreement in February 2026 after a one-year pilot
- Schaeffler signed a global deployment agreement and took an equity stake in November 2024
- Mercado Libre signed a commercial agreement in December 2025 for its San Antonio facility
- Amazon has been testing Digit at its Sumner R&D site since October 2023
- Digit passed the first humanoid OSHA-recognized NRTL field inspection in November 2025
- RoboFab factory has 10,000 units per year nameplate but runs at 8 units per shift today
- Agility raised roughly $400 million in 2025 at a $1.75 to $2.12 billion valuation
- Digit hit 66 totes per hour at 98 to 100% cycle success rate at Automate 2025
The key interpretation is the concentration of evidence. Every strong data point clusters around two customer sites and one factory. The rest of Agility's footprint is either testing, early pilots, or recent agreements still to be operationalized.
As of today, what can Digit do and what can it not do?
Digit can handle totes and industrial baskets in narrow, verified commercial workflows inside a cage, but it cannot yet detect humans, work a full shift on one charge, or operate outside its narrow task scope.
The capability set is well documented, because Agility publishes specs and customers disclose select workflows. The constraints are equally documented, both by Agility and by external reporters covering the Cheraw deployment.
What Digit can do today:
- Walk upright bipedally on standard warehouse floors with its backward-bending bird-like legs
- Lift and carry objects up to 35 pounds, including warehouse totes and industrial baskets
- Unload totes from autonomous mobile robots and place them onto conveyor belts
- Run for about 4 hours per charge, then autonomously dock at its charging station
- Coordinate with AMRs from MiR and Zebra through the Agility Arc cloud platform
- Scan QR codes to position itself precisely within a work cell in warehouses
What Digit cannot do today:
- Detect humans in its environment, which is why it must operate inside a Plexiglas cage
- Work alongside people without a physical barrier at any public customer site
- Run a full 8-hour shift on one charge without swapping or recharging midway
- Perform general-purpose manipulation outside tote and basket workflows
- Operate autonomously at Schaeffler Cheraw without Agility contractor supervision on site
- Function in consumer environments or outdoor settings at any scale today
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Since when has Digit been working in factory environments?
Digit has been working in a live factory environment since early 2025 at Schaeffler's Cheraw plant, which makes the earliest verified factory deployment roughly 15 months old.
The distinction between factory and warehouse matters here. Warehouse work at GXO (pilot in 2023, commercial in June 2024) is different from production-line support inside an actual manufacturing plant. Schaeffler Cheraw is the earliest verified factory case.
Schaeffler's own Schaeffler Tomorrow publication states that Digit has been loading and unloading a washing machine at the Cheraw plant since the beginning of 2025. WSJ reporting surfaced publicly in March 2026 and confirmed the unit has been operating there for roughly a year.
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada adds a second factory data point. The pilot ran about one year before the February 2026 commercial agreement, so factory-environment pilot work there is 12 to 14 months old. Across both sites, Agility's total factory track record is around 15 months maximum, not multiple years.
Is there a gap between Agility's messaging and deployment reality?
Yes, but it is the narrowest such gap of any humanoid robot program. Agility's real deployment is concentrated at one mature site and a few early pilots, while its messaging bundles factory capacity, aspirational customer targets, and live operations together.
Agility has genuine firsts to its name. The first humanoid commercial RaaS deployment at GXO. A verified 100,000 tote milestone. Live factory operation at Schaeffler Cheraw. The first OSHA-recognized NRTL field inspection pass. Four signed commercial agreements. A $400 million Series C at a $2 billion valuation.
What remains unproven is the scale some of the messaging implies. No customer has a publicly verified multi-site fleet. The installed base is plausibly 40 to 150 units, with 75 as the central estimate. That is not the low-thousands implied by a 10,000 per year factory.
Schaeffler's 100-plant plan is a 2030 goal, not a current footprint. Amazon's relationship is still at testing. Even Agility's CEO pushed the "cooperatively safe Digit" target from "within 18 months" in late 2024 to early 2027. The reality is directionally correct but roughly 2 years behind the pace the messaging suggests.
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Are Agility's customers expanding from pilots to multi-site fleets?
No. Every verified Digit deployment as of mid-2026 is single-site, and every "multi-site" statement is either forward-looking or a first-site scaling event.
GXO moved from pilot to RaaS to a 100,000 tote milestone, but all of this happened at the same single site in Flowery Branch, Georgia. No second GXO site is verified publicly.
Schaeffler Cheraw has been live since early 2025, but multi-plant deployment is explicitly positioned as a 2030 goal. TMMC is scaling within one plant in Cambridge. Mercado Libre begins at a single San Antonio site. LatAm sites are future plans, not verified operations.
What is happening is intra-site scaling, like TMMC expanding from pilot to 7 or 10 units at one plant. That is real progress, but it is not multi-site fleet deployment. Expect this to stay single-site until Digit v5 ships in early 2027 and ISO 25875 progresses.
Is Digit operationally mature, not just technically mature?
Digit has crossed the technical-maturity bar for narrow warehouse and factory tasks, but it is not yet broadly operationally mature. Cages, supervision, short battery life, and undisclosed reliability metrics all point to the same gap.
The technical signals are strong. Over 100,000 totes moved at GXO over 16 months shows real-world repeatability. 8-hour daily shifts at Schaeffler Cheraw demonstrate sustained industrial use. A 98 to 100% cycle success rate at Automate 2025 points to controlled-setting reliability. The November 2025 OSHA-recognized NRTL pass confirms safety validation in live conditions.
The operational gap is equally clear. Cages or enclosures are required at every public site because Digit cannot detect humans. An Agility contractor is on-site supervising the Schaeffler unit. Battery life is about 4 hours, so a full shift needs charging rotation. No customer can yet deploy Digit as a fully independent industrial asset.
Reliability metrics like uptime, MTBF, and mean-time-between-incidents are not publicly disclosed. Former Agility CPO Melonee Wise stated in IEEE Spectrum in October 2025 that current humanoid AI is not robust enough to meet market requirements. Until Digit v5 ships in early 2027 and ISO 25875 progresses, deployments stay cage-bound and task-narrow.
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When could Agility reach 1,000, 10,000, and 100,000 deployed Digits?
1,000 deployed Digits is realistic in the 2028 to 2029 window, 10,000 in 2032 to 2034, and 100,000 no earlier than 2036. Each milestone is gated by customer rollout and safety certification, not by RoboFab capacity.
The 1,000-unit milestone (roughly 50% confidence in-window) needs Digit v5 to ship on schedule in early 2027, RoboFab to move from 8 units per shift to multi-shift production, and at least one anchor customer to place a multi-hundred-unit order. From today's 75-unit base, Agility must ship 850 or more additional deployed units across 2026 to 2028.
The 10,000-unit milestone (around 35% confidence in-window) needs several years of near-full RoboFab capacity converted into deployed units, not stockpile. Service, commissioning, safety sign-off, and customer-side change management become the binding constraints. Industrial robotics history shows a 3 to 5 year lag between factory capacity and cumulative installed base.
The 100,000-unit milestone (roughly 30% confidence in-window) needs RoboFab-equivalent multi-factory capacity, a cheaper next-generation Digit, ratified cooperative-safety standards, and multi-industry demand that does not publicly exist yet. Agility's $2 to $3 per hour operating cost target versus $10 to $25 today indicates the cost reduction still needed.
What are the bear, base, and bull scenarios for Digit deployment?
In a bear case, Digit reaches roughly 2,500 cumulative deployed units by 2036. In a base case, 40,000. In a bull case, 140,000. The 56-times spread reflects how much the outcome depends on Digit v5 timing, ISO 25875 ratification, and a potential anchor customer.
All three scenarios share the same starting point: around 75 deployed Digits today, one high-throughput site at GXO, one live factory at Schaeffler Cheraw, and four signed commercial agreements. The three paths diverge at the 2027 to 2028 inflection point when Digit v5 either ships on time or slips.
The numbers are cumulative year-end deployed units, not annual shipments. Even in the base case, Agility's growth is constrained by safety timing, service scaling, and customer change management rather than by manufacturing capability. The bull case depends on events that are not publicly confirmed today.
| Year | Cumulative Digits deployed (bear case) | Cumulative Digits deployed (base case) | Cumulative Digits deployed (bull case) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 120 | 250 | 500 |
| 2027 | 200 | 600 | 1,500 |
| 2028 | 300 | 1,200 | 3,500 |
| 2029 | 450 | 2,200 | 7,000 |
| 2030 | 650 | 4,000 | 14,000 |
| 2031 | 900 | 7,000 | 25,000 |
| 2032 | 1,200 | 11,000 | 40,000 |
| 2033 | 1,500 | 16,000 | 60,000 |
| 2034 | 1,800 | 22,000 | 85,000 |
| 2035 | 2,100 | 30,000 | 110,000 |
| 2036 | 2,500 | 40,000 | 140,000 |
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What would need to happen for each scenario to play out?
Each scenario hinges on three variables: the timing of cooperatively safe Digit v5, the signing of a Fortune 500 anchor customer, and the ratification of ISO 25875. The bear case assumes all three slip. The base case assumes the first two happen on schedule. The bull case assumes all three hit plus a next-generation cost cut.
In the bear case, GXO, Schaeffler, Toyota, Mercado Libre, and Amazon all stay at one or two sites each. No Fortune 500 anchor signs through 2028. Digit v5 slips past 2027, battery life stays at 4 hours, and reliability metrics stay undisclosed. ISO 25875 slips past its typical cycle. Signals to watch are quiet customer quarters and continued cage use everywhere.
In the base case, Schaeffler scales to 15 to 25 plants by 2030 (well under the 100-plant target), Toyota scales to 3 to 5 plants, Mercado Libre reaches 4 to 8 LatAm facilities, and Amazon places a mid-three-digit-unit order. Digit v5 ships on time with functional cooperative safety. Agility scales its service team to 800 to 1,500 people. Signals to watch are announcements that disclose unit counts rather than site lists.
In the bull case, Amazon or a similar customer places a multi-thousand-unit order and Schaeffler reaches 50 to 100 plants by 2035. A second-generation Digit cuts unit cost roughly in half and operating cost to $5 to $10 per hour. ISO 25875 finalizes on schedule and fenceless operation becomes the norm. Agility breaks ground on a second factory. Signals to watch are a single four-digit purchase order and public cost-per-unit disclosures trending down.
Why is Agility unlikely to reach large-scale deployment earlier than these dates?
The main bottlenecks are not manufacturing. They are cage-free safety certification, customer-side rollout friction, service burden, task scope, and undisclosed long-duration reliability.
The hardest bottleneck is safety. Digit still operates in cages because it cannot detect humans. Agility's CEO target for a cooperatively safe next-generation Digit slipped from "within 18 months" in late 2024 to early 2027. The ISO 25875 safety standard follows a typical 3 to 4 year development cycle. These constraints apply to every humanoid vendor, not just Agility.
Integration and service are the second bottleneck. Agility provides white-glove delivery and hands-on training per deployment, which means human labor per site constrains ramp speed. Service and spare-parts footprint must scale before large fleets are viable. Customer change management (union relations, safety reviews, capex approvals) moves slower than factory output.
Cost is the third bottleneck. Estimated unit cost is around $250,000 today with $10 to $25 per hour operating cost, both higher than the levels needed for mass rollout. RoboFab's 10,000 per year is a ceiling, not a run-rate, and robots shipped do not equal robots deployed. For broader industry context on humanoid deployment dynamics, we cover the full picture in our humanoid robotics market deck.
Insights
Across three years of Agility Robotics announcements, customer press releases, executive interviews, and deployment data, some patterns are only visible when sources are compared side by side. Here is what stood out.
- The 100,000-tote milestone at GXO's Flowery Branch warehouse sounds impressive, but divided across 16 months of operation it works out to roughly 13 to 20 totes per hour of effective fleet output. Agility itself demonstrated 66 totes per hour from a single robot at the Automate 2025 trade show. Real-world throughput runs at roughly 25% of demo performance.
- GXO operates more than 970 logistics facilities globally. Agility has deployed Digit at exactly one of them since late 2023. If the company were a genuine anchor customer ready to scale, a second site would already exist by now.
- Agility describes RoboFab as a "CapEx-light assembly" facility, meaning it mostly puts together parts sourced from outside suppliers. This means the real scaling bottleneck is the supply of actuators, sensors, and batteries, which Agility does not manufacture. The company cannot grow faster than its component suppliers allow.
- Digit currently runs on a 2-to-1 work-to-charge ratio, meaning one robot is always charging for every two that are working. One-third of any Digit fleet is therefore idle at any moment. The honest labor-replacement math is closer to 1.5 robots plus one human supervisor covering the work of one human employee.
- Amazon began testing Digit at its facility south of Seattle in October 2023. More than thirty months later, Amazon has published nothing about any scaled deployment or purchase order. If Amazon were satisfied with the results, it would have said something by now.
- Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada ran a pilot with Digit for a full year before signing its February 2026 commercial agreement. The resulting deployment covers seven to ten robots at one plant. A global automaker taking twelve months to commit to fewer than ten units is a revealing data point about enterprise decision speed.
- Mercado Libre, the largest e-commerce company in Latin America, chose San Antonio, Texas for its first Digit site rather than Mexico City or São Paulo. Even for a Latin American customer, deployment needs to stay within reach of Agility's US-based service and support team. Geographic service gravity is a hard constraint on how fast Agility can expand internationally.
- Schaeffler, the German industrial group that invested in Agility and took equity, has also signed partnerships with competing humanoid makers. Those include Neura Robotics in Germany, Humanoid in the UK, and Leju in China. Agility's closest industrial ally is openly betting that Agility alone will not win the humanoid market.
- At the ProMat 2025 trade show, Agility demonstrated Digit performing advanced warehouse tasks including palletizing, depalletizing, goods-to-person picking, and automated putwall loading. A year later, the only tasks actually running at paying customer sites are basic tote movement at GXO and basket movement at Schaeffler. An 18 to 24 month gap between demos and real deployments is common in humanoid robotics and rarely discussed.
- Every Digit deployment story follows the same pattern. A major press release announces a partnership or milestone, followed by months of near-total silence about operational performance. The absence of uptime, reliability, or throughput disclosures after the initial announcement carries real information about how deployments are actually going.
- Former Agility Chief Product Officer Melonee Wise told IEEE Spectrum in October 2025 that current AI "is not robust enough to meet the requirements of the market." Wise had been a senior executive at Agility until shortly before making this statement. A departing C-level leader saying this on the record about their own industry is unusually direct.
- Peggy Johnson was hired as Agility's CEO in March 2024, coming from Microsoft and Magic Leap. Her background is enterprise sales and partnerships, which signaled that Agility's binding constraint was commercial execution. Two years later, Agility still has not hired a Chief Service Officer from a heavy-industry company like Caterpillar or Rockwell, suggesting the service side of deployment remains under-resourced.
- Figure AI, a competing humanoid startup, raised money in September 2025 at a $39 billion valuation. Agility raised at $2.12 billion in the same period. Venture capital is paying a steep premium for the more ambitious but less proven humanoid thesis over Agility's more measured and more validated one.
- Being the first to reach commercial humanoid deployment is a genuine achievement but a modest one in context. The entire global installed base of humanoid robots doing productive paid work is plausibly under 500 units across all vendors combined. Agility leads a field where almost nothing has reached real scale yet.
- The cleanest way to track whether the Agility story is actually working is to watch for three disclosures that do not exist today. First, a direct installed-base count from Agility itself. Second, an uptime or reliability figure published by a customer. Third, a single purchase order for 100 or more robots. Until at least one of these appears publicly, humanoid deployment remains a collection of pilots rather than a real market.
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