Agility Robotics Expands NVIDIA Collaboration as It Prepares Digit 5 for Commercial Scale

SUMMARY

Agility Robotics announced on 22 October 2026 that Digit 5 will standardise on NVIDIA IGX Thor for its onboard compute. The company says the change widens its existing collaboration with NVIDIA as it readies the humanoid for broader commercial deployment.

The new architecture brings Digit 5's onboard compute together on NVIDIA IGX Thor modules. According to Agility, NVIDIA becomes the exclusive provider of onboard compute for the general availability version of Digit 5.

The move builds on the companies' earlier collaboration around the NVIDIA Halos safety platform for physical AI. Agility says it is integrating NVIDIA IGX Thor and further NVIDIA Halos models into the proprietary safe human detection system it uses on Digit. It describes these integrations as intended to extend Digit's current perception capabilities, support connections to a broader ecosystem and aid its ongoing certification and deployment work. Agility will also take part in the NVIDIA Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab, which is to help evaluate Digit's safety-related software, AI components and cybersecurity protections before final third-party certification.

On timing, Agility expects early access to Digit 5 to begin in the first half of 2027. Availability is then to increase over the following six to nine months for manufacturing, warehouse and distribution operators. Separately, in the same announcement, Agility says its planned business combination with Churchill Capital Corp XI is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026.

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