65,000 hours later: Digit 4 vs Digit 5 in one chart.
Agility Robotics put a generation gap on the table. Digit 4 still ships to warehouse floors today. Digit 5 unveiled on September 15, 2026 — human-like legs, cooperative safety aims, early access planned for H1 2027. Specs below are company claims unless noted.
Key deltas (Digit 4 → Digit 5)
- Payload: 16 kg → 23 kg (+40%)
- Run-to-charge: 2:1 → 10:1
- Charge time: ~120 min → 9 min
- Mass: 93 kg → 129 kg (heavier on purpose)
- Vertical reach: 5.5 ft → 7.2 ft
- Legs: bird / ostrich-derived → human-like knees
Deployment scoreboard (company claims)
- 65,000+ hours of real-world Digit operation (mostly Digit 4 tenure)
- 9 committed customer facility deployments, including GXO, Schaeffler and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada
- Digit 5: >$300M multi-year committed orders subject to contractual milestones — not current-period revenue
- RoboFab (Salem, OR): designed for up to 10,000 robots/year — design capacity, not run-rate
IPO strip. SPAC with Churchill Capital Corp XI. S-4 declared effective October 13, 2026. Shareholder vote: November 2. Expected ticker: AGLT. Pre-money equity value: $2.5B (June 2026 announce). The deal has not closed.
Our take: Markets will not price demos. They will price whether those nine sites become ninety — and whether Digit 5's 10:1 run-to-charge holds on customer floors without fences.
Sources
- Agility — Unveils Digit 5 (2026-09-15): Agility press
- Agility — Digit 5 product page: agilityrobotics.com/solutions/digit-5
- Agility — S-4 declared effective (2026-10-13): Agility / Churchill press
- Agility — SPAC announce with Churchill XI (2026-06-24): Agility press
- IEEE Spectrum — Hurst on Digit 5 (2026-10-19): spectrum.ieee.org
- Companion ranking: Agility Digit IPO Nov 2 — vs China listings
- Companion Short: 65,000 hours. 9 sites. Ticker AGLT.
Graphic: behindrobotics. Digit 4/5 specs, hours, sites, Digit 5 orders and RoboFab capacity are company claims. SPAC not closed. Product photos: Agility Robotics (Digit 4 / Digit 5).