Agility Robotics' Digit Moves Beyond Pilots, Now Handling Real Warehouse Work at Amazon, Toyota, and GXO

Commercial deployment accelerates

Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid robot has transitioned from prototype to revenue-generating asset, now operating in active warehouse and manufacturing environments across multiple Fortune 500 partners. The Oregon-based startup announced in February that it would deploy multiple Digit units at Toyota's manufacturing plant in Canada to handle tote loading and unloading tasks, joining earlier deployments at Amazon, Schaeffler Group, and logistics provider GXO. This marks a critical inflection point for the humanoid robotics industry: Digit is the only bipedal robot currently generating revenue from paying commercial customers, according to industry recognition including The Robot Report's inaugural RBR50 Robot of the Year Award.

Why warehouse logistics matters

Digit addresses a specific, urgent problem: highly repetitive material handling tasks that human workers increasingly avoid, creating labor gaps in logistics, e-commerce, and automotive sectors. The robot's bipedal design allows it to navigate confined warehouse spaces while carrying loads, move between AMR handoff stations, and—critically—autonomously recover from falls, a failure mode that cripples most competing systems. Unlike generalist humanoids pursuing broad manipulation, Digit is purpose-built for the logistics workflow: receive totes from autonomous mobile robots, unload them, and transfer to conveyors or staging areas. Digit's real-world deployment at scale signals a market shift from speculative robotics toward pragmatic automation of the labor shortage problem.

How Digit operates in practice

Digit's workflow follows a clean input-to-output loop: computer vision and LiDAR sensors identify tote locations and obstacles, an onboard AI model calculates the optimal footstep path to minimize unnecessary movement, and the robot's proprietary navigation stack executes that path while maintaining balance and load stability. The robot's recent navigation redesign now solves for globally optimal, minimum-step paths rather than reactive movement, translating to faster cycle times and higher throughput per shift. This system operates within Agility Arc, the company's cloud platform, which enables relatively quick commissioning of new units across a distributed fleet.

Inside GXO's one-year deployment

At GXO's fulfillment facility, Digit has now completed a full year of continuous operation, unloading totes from autonomous tuggers and loading them onto conveyors at a dedicated station. The robot handles the repetitive, physically demanding aspect of order fulfillment that creates turnover and safety risks for human workers, while warehouse staff manage higher-level sorting and quality control. This scenario is not a controlled demo but active commercial operation, meaning Digit must maintain reliability across thousands of cycles, handle variable tote weights and configurations, and integrate seamlessly with existing warehouse software systems.

Specifications enabling real work

Digit stands 175 centimeters tall and weighs 60 kilograms, allowing it to fit through standard warehouse aisles and work at human-scale stations. The robot can move at 1.8 meters per second and currently lifts up to 16 kilograms per cycle, with a next-generation version expected in late 2025 or early 2026 designed to increase payload to 50 pounds—a 43 percent improvement that opens heavier material handling tasks. Its sensor suite includes LiDAR, four Intel RealSense depth cameras, an IMU, and encoders, enabling real-time obstacle detection and precise footstep tracking even in dynamic warehouse environments.

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The logistics robotics inflection

Digit's expansion from pilot to multi-site deployment signals that the humanoid robotics industry is moving past proof-of-concept toward operational scaling. The company is currently raising Series C funding to scale production to 10,000+ units and pursue functional safety certification—a regulatory milestone that would allow Digit to work directly alongside human workers rather than in segregated zones. This shift from isolated automation to human-robot collaboration in shared spaces represents the next frontier for warehouse robotics, one that Digit is positioned to lead.