Daniel Diaz, chief business officer at Agility Robotics, joins John Koetsier on NEXT with John Koetsier to discuss Digit V5, commercial deployments, and working safely alongside people.
Diaz says safety cages are the main barrier to scaling humanoid robots, rather than skills, AI, or batteries. Agility plans early customer deployments of its cooperatively safe robot in December 2026, then broader scaling after it verifies performance and safety in operation.
Digit is built for industrial spaces and repetitive material handling, including difficult-to-staff jobs in factories and warehouses. Diaz says V5 adds cooperative safety, rapid charging for more than 20 hours of daily work, and an ISO flange for a wider range of end effectors and more dexterous tasks such as kitting and sorting.
Diaz describes Digit’s dynamic stability, including tests where it recovers its balance after a rug is pulled from beneath it while carrying a payload. At Schaeffler in South Carolina, he says Digit processes parts faster than a washer can accept them; he frames productivity around sustained output and customer ROI, rather than short bursts of speed. Agility has also demonstrated Digit changing its own hands in a lab.
Removing safety barriers could let Digit fit into existing workflows with less disruption and reach sites where there is no room for a cage. Agility is focused on automotive manufacturing and e-commerce warehousing, and Diaz cites inbound interest from retail and pharmaceuticals.
Diaz says becoming public will bring regular company metrics, but Agility plans to stay focused on paid work and customer ROI. He says the company expects more customer announcements over the next 18 months and pegs the V5 launch for December 2026, with images and feature details ahead of launch.
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