Digit

Digit is the anti-companion, and that is the point. Agility built it to work — a 1.75-metre, roughly 65-kilogram biped with reverse-jointed legs, two arms, a featureless head, and no face, voice, gender or warmth. Where the companions sell intimacy, Digit sells a timesheet. Its whole design thesis is access: legs, not wheels, so it can use the stairs, ramps and narrow aisles of buildings made for people — no re-flooring, no fixed rails, no rebuilt warehouse.

The job

Tote handling, bin moving, line-tending and the other dull, repetitive tasks of a warehouse built for humans. It walks about 1.5 m/s, climbs stairs, threads tight aisles, carries roughly 16 kg, and runs 4–8 hours on a swappable battery — all coordinated through Agility's Arc cloud platform for fleet tasking. The current generation trades raw novelty for reliability: repeatable picks and placements, self-recharging between shifts, and the sense to flag a human when a task falls outside what it knows.

The receipts

This is the rare humanoid with a verifiable resume. Agility reports 65,000+ hours of operation across nine customer facilities, with paying deployments at Amazon, GXO, Schaeffler, Mercado Libre and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada. You can buy one (around $250k) or rent it as a service; Agility pitches a sub-two-year payback against roughly $30/hour human labour. Treat the per-hour cost figures as the vendor's, not independently audited. Behind those numbers sits a pipeline Agility puts at more than 30 customers and a planned 2026 public listing under the ticker AGLT — unusually concrete commitments for a field that mostly runs on demo reels.

Why it scores 22

Bottom of our index, by design. On the companion axes — face, skin, expression, warmth — Digit is a flat zero, and isn't trying to be anything else. What it has is honest, capable bipedal mobility and real-world reliability, which is why it lands level with Unitree's research bots rather than below them. Digit's value to this directory is as ground truth: proof that humanoids can earn their keep in 2026, just not by being lovable.