Today’s job, next year’s delivery
Seen from the street, the difference is this: the job Digit 5 is supposed to do is stand next to someone on a warehouse or factory floor. Agility calls that cooperatively safe work at scale, without the physical safety fences of ordinary industrial robots. The same announcement puts early access in the first half of 2027 and general availability for manufacturing, warehouse and distribution operators at the end of 2027. The fence leaves the slide today. The floor date sits underneath it.[1]
The European Union and the United Kingdom enter the commercial-deployment list for the first time. Agility's text also lists a CE mark for Digit 5. That is a customs and standards gate, and it is set for 2027. Peggy Johnson’s more than 300 million dollars in multi-year orders are subject to contractual milestones. An order book does not show a fleet on the dock.[1]
Whose test does the safety claim rest on
The new architecture names three pieces: human detection, visual and audio cues that advertise motion, and an independent controller that stops or seats the robot at an unsafe distance. NVIDIA Halos for Robotics and IGX Thor appear as a first launch partnership. That is a description of a designed stack. It does not say an independent lab has measured Digit 5 on a customer site.[1]
Agility writes that the line builds on becoming the first humanoid to pass an independent field evaluation recognized by OSHA. That step is a field test that predates the Digit 5 unveiling. The question that matters to the person standing next to it is whether Digit 5’s own field approval is published. Until then the magic sits on the prior robot’s paperwork, and the maintenance is the 2027 delivery.[1]
The one page a buyer can wait for
My read is that this is a delivery calendar. If an early-access notice names countries, site types and a Digit 5-specific field approval, the no-fence claim becomes something a coworker can judge. Until that page exists, Digit 5 is a placeholder dated 2027.[1]