Agility will debut Digit 5 prototypes at CES 2027
Agility CEO Peggy Johnson says the first Digit 5 prototypes will be shown at CES 2027 in January — the next-generation humanoid’s first public outing.
Agility Robotics will show its next-generation Digit 5 humanoid at CES 2027 in Las Vegas, CEO Peggy Johnson said, giving the first public demonstration of a robot the company has yet to unveil in prototype form. The confirmation came as Agility began trading on Nasdaq on November 5 under the ticker AGLT, in a debut the company describes as the first U.S. pure-play humanoid robotics listing.
Digit 5 is built to work safely alongside people in shared workspaces, without the isolated safety cells its predecessor Digit required. Agility says the new model can repeatedly lift 50 pounds, runs about 90 minutes on a battery that recharges in nine minutes, stands 5 feet 11 inches tall and can reach shelves up to 7.2 feet high. The company reports more than $300 million in planned multi-year orders for Digit 5 from 30 customers, though those deals only close if the robot hits undisclosed targets for throughput, uptime and placement accuracy.
The CES showing opens a tight 2027 schedule: early customer access in the first half of the year, with general availability targeted for the end of 2027. Johnson said the prototypes have not yet been shown publicly; CES 2027, January 6-9, will be their first outing, and the $300 million order book was one of the driving factors behind taking the company public.
The debut caps a sharp reversal for a company that was taunted a year ago, when Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock predicted Agility would be bankrupt within 12 months. Instead, Agility closed its merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI on November 4 and raised $465 million. Its Digit robots have logged more than 65,000 hours in the field across nine customers, including GXO, Schaeffler and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada — against $174,000 in revenue and a $362 million net loss in the first half of 2026.
For CES watchers, Digit 5's first public demo is one of the show's key humanoid moments: the machine arrives in January as a listed company's flagship product, with a $300 million pipeline behind it. What matters on the show floor is not the demo itself but whether Digit 5 works beside people as promised — the orders only convert if it clears the performance gates Johnson described.