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Agility’s 284-pound Digit 5 runs for 90 minutes and recharges in nine, a 10-to-1 work-to-charge ratio the company says can deliver more than 20 productive hours a day, with early customer access planned for the first half of 2027

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Agility’s 284-pound Digit 5 runs for 90 minutes and recharges in nine, a 10-to-1 work-to-charge ratio the company says can deliver more than 20 productive hours a day, with early customer access planned for the first half of 2027
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Agility Robotics has unveiled Digit 5, the fifth generation of its bipedal warehouse robot, and the headline change is the safety cage — specifically, its absence. Earlier Digit models, like most industrial robots, operated inside fenced cells to keep people out of reach. Digit 5 is designed to work in the open, using sensors and a separate safety controller that can make it stop, back away or drop into a seated position when a person gets close, according to the company’s hardware rundown

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