If it were human
“Like a tireless overnight shift worker who never calls in sick, quietly moving pallets while everyone else sleeps.”
Digit is a bipedal humanoid robot built by Agility Robotics, headquartered in the United States. Standing 1.75 m tall and weighing around 65 kg, it is designed from the ground up to operate inside the warehouses, distribution centres, and logistics facilities that humans built for themselves — narrow aisles, loading docks, conveyor belts and all.
Its core job is straightforward and relentless: pick up totes and move them. Digit can lift payloads of up to 16 kg and navigate cluttered, dynamic human environments without needing a specially prepared floor or infrastructure overhaul. It has already been deployed operationally by logistics giant GXO and trialled by Amazon, making it one of the few humanoid robots in the world with genuine real-world warehouse hours on the clock.
Digit does not try to be everything. It is purpose-built for repetitive logistics tasks, which means it handles them with a focus and consistency that humans find difficult to sustain across a 12-hour shift. It works alongside human teams rather than replacing entire workflows, slotting into the dull, physically demanding loops that wear people out fastest.
At the agency, we think of Digit as the dependable colleague every warehouse manager quietly dreams of — no complaints, no fatigue, no dropped totes at 3 a.m. If your operation runs on repetition and volume, Digit is ready to clock in.
Tech sheet
- Creator
- Agility Robotics
- Year
- 2023
- Country
- United States
- Type
- Humanoid
- Height
- 1.75 m
- Weight
- 65 kg
- Status
- In production
Features
- Bipedal
- Legs
- Arms
- Vision
- Logistics-optimised
