What is Agility Robotics and the Digit humanoid robot?

Agility Robotics: institutional facts

Agility Robotics is a US humanoid robotics company headquartered in Albany, Oregon. CEO Damion Shelton leads the company; co-founder Jonathan Hurst's research heritage at Oregon State University's Dynamic Robotics Lab produced the Cassie bipedal research platform that preceded the commercial Digit humanoid. The lineage from Cassie research to Digit commercial product is editorially substantive: Agility is one of the cohort manufacturers with the deepest pre-commercial humanoid R&D foundation, distinguishing it from companies founded specifically to ship commercial humanoid product without comparable research heritage.

The company operates a dedicated humanoid manufacturing facility, RoboFab, in Salem, Oregon. Agility is privately held; strategic investors include Amazon (which has both invested and is a deployment customer through Spanx Tennessee operations). For the broader investor-disambiguation context across the humanoid cohort, see best humanoid manufacturer to invest in.

Digit: warehouse-and-logistics humanoid

Digit is Agility's commercial humanoid product. The platform is roughly 5'9" tall, bipedal with manipulation arms (not fully human-equivalent dexterous hands; designed for tote and box handling specifically), and engineered specifically for warehouse-and-logistics deployment envelopes rather than general-purpose household tasks or factory-floor flexibility.

The deployment focus distinguishes Digit from peer humanoids:

• Apptronik Apollo operates manufacturing flexibility across Mercedes / GXO / Jabil pilots.
• Figure AI operates automotive assembly (Figure 02 at BMW Spartanburg) and logistics (Figure 03 at Catalyst Brands Reno).
• Agility Digit focuses specifically on warehouse tote movement and logistics-task envelopes.

The narrower task envelope is editorial: Agility's product hypothesis is that excelling at warehouse logistics at scale beats general-purpose humanoid capability that's mediocre across many tasks. The 100,000-tote throughput milestone at GXO Flowery Branch validates that hypothesis at single-customer commercial scale.

Verified commercial deployments

Per Agility's registry record and the signal coverage of the Catalyst Brands deployment context:

• GXO Logistics at Flowery Branch, Georgia: the canonical commercial humanoid throughput anchor. 100,000 totes moved in live fulfillment under a multi-year Robots-as-a-Service contract, verified by GXO as customer of record and confirmed across independent trade press.
• Amazon Spanx Tennessee operations: Amazon, both a strategic investor and a deployment customer, operates Digit units in warehouse operations.
• Schaeffler: industrial deployment partnership.
• Additional pilot relationships across logistics and manufacturing customers documented in the registry record.

The deployment depth at a single customer (GXO Flowery Branch with 100,000-tote throughput) distinguishes Digit's commercial trajectory: single-customer-depth verification rather than enterprise-breadth-with-pending-throughput (Apptronik's pattern) or automotive-OEM-acceptance-verification (Figure 02 at BMW). The framework reads these as three structurally distinct commercial humanoid strategies, all operating at the verified enterprise-deployed tier of DEPLOY's four-tier capability framework.

Where Digit fits in the cohort

Applying DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed framework across humanoid makers:

• Five-tier availability: Digit sits at the enterprise-deployed tier. No consumer commerce surface; enterprise contracts only (typically via Robots-as-a-Service or multi-year service contracts; per-unit pricing not publicly disclosed; industry-analyst estimates in the $50,000-$250,000 range plus integration and ongoing service fees).
• Four-tier capability: verified enterprise-deployed (GXO Flowery Branch 100,000-tote throughput; Amazon Spanx; Schaeffler). The verified-deployment posture is multi-year operational data at single-customer depth.
• Investor disambiguation: privately held; Amazon as strategic investor and customer; investment access via venture-stage rather than public-equity channels. See best humanoid manufacturer to invest in.
• Geographic disambiguation: American (Albany, Oregon HQ + Salem RoboFab manufacturing). Part of the US enterprise-deployed humanoid cohort alongside Figure, Apptronik, and Boston Dynamics. See which humanoid robots are American vs Chinese.

What the framework cap-flags

Per DEPLOY's discipline:

• Per-unit pricing: not publicly disclosed. Robots-as-a-Service contract structures shift the cost from capex to opex, but per-deployment monthly figures are negotiated privately.
• Multi-customer breadth: Agility's deployment depth at GXO is verified; multi-customer scaled-throughput data analogous to GXO's 100,000-tote milestone has not been independently published for Amazon Spanx or Schaeffler deployments at the same depth.
• Geographic generalization: Agility's commercial deployments operate at US warehouse customers; international expansion at commercial-deployment depth is a forward question.
• Consumer pricing surface: not applicable; the product is enterprise-bound. See DEPLOY's consumer pricing infrastructure for Agility Digit as it rolls out per agent B's main-surface work.

Where to go for context

For canonical institutional depth on Agility Robotics (founding history, Cassie research lineage, Amazon investment, RoboFab manufacturing facility, deployment record), see Agility Robotics's registry record. For the GXO Flowery Branch deployment anchor specifically, see the 100,000-tote scaled-throughput signal.

For the broader humanoid cohort context including comparison with peer manufacturers, see the leading humanoid robot makers, can I buy a humanoid robot in 2026, and what can humanoid robots actually do today.

For the framework DEPLOY applies to capability claims across humanoid makers, see how DEPLOY verifies capability claims.