On 6 October, Agility Robotics used its analyst and investor day to present the commercial version of its Digit 5 humanoid, and it was unusually open with the numbers. According to the company, the parts for one robot cost about €134,000 ($150,000) at launch, up from roughly €112,000 ($125,000) for Digit 4. The reason is extra sensing and safety computing, which make the machine bigger and heavier.
The road to about €26,800 per robot
The target for parts cost is about €26,800 ($30,000) at 10,000 units a year. The company is counting on in-house cycloidal actuators, which make up about a quarter of the bill of materials, on supply deals for standard components and on volume discounts.
The CFO sketched a robots-as-a-service model: a five-year life, about €447,000 ($500,000) in revenue per robot and total costs near €215,000 ($240,000). On those assumptions the product margin would be around 50% at launch, with hardware paying back in about a year and a half. The figures leave out corporate overhead and assume flat pricing.
A roughly €268 million ($300 million) order for 1,000 robots was also described. The customer is not named, and robots are released in batches, each one unlocked once a use case is proven. Early access is expected in the first half of 2027 and general availability by the end of 2027. Safety certification for Digit 5 is still pending, and Schaeffler, which runs Digit at a plant in South Carolina, says it must keep the robot guarded for now because humanoid safety standards are lacking.
Source: Humanoids Daily, 6 October 2026.