Agility selects NVIDIA as sole onboard computing supplier for Digit 5

Agility Robotics is giving NVIDIA an exclusive role inside the general-availability version of Digit 5, its next-generation humanoid robot. In an October 22 announcement, Agility said it would standardize the robot’s onboard computing on NVIDIA IGX Thor modules while extending safety work intended to prepare the machine for broader factory and warehouse deployment.

One computing foundation for the commercial version

The commitment covers the computing carried aboard the general-availability robot. Agility says the transition will unify that architecture around IGX Thor modules, giving Digit 5 a common computing foundation as the company develops its capabilities and prepares for wider deployment. NVIDIA’s exclusivity is specifically for that onboard computing role, rather than a stated takeover of Agility’s own safety system.

Agility chief technology officer Pras Velagapudi described the computing change and the safety collaboration as linked preparations for general availability. The commercial goal, he said, is useful work performed reliably and safely in customers’ operations—not simply a new hardware configuration.

Bringing humanoid robots to commercial scale requires AI computing and safety to be engineered together.

Deepu Talla, NVIDIA vice president of robotics and edge AI

Human detection, then evaluation

The safety work extends an existing collaboration involving NVIDIA Halos, a safety platform for AI systems operating in the physical world. Agility is integrating IGX Thor and additional Halos models into its proprietary system for safely detecting people. That keeps the human-detection system Agility’s own, while incorporating more NVIDIA technology into it.

Agility says those integrations are intended to broaden Digit’s perception capabilities, support connections to a wider ecosystem and help its certification and deployment efforts. These are expected benefits of the integration, not completed certification results.

Agility will also participate in NVIDIA’s Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab. The lab will support evaluation of Digit’s safety-related software, AI components and cybersecurity protections ahead of final third-party certification. Supplier-supported evaluation and final certification are therefore separate steps in the process Agility has outlined.

Customer access is still ahead

Agility expects early access to Digit 5 to begin in the first half of 2027. It plans to increase availability over the following six to nine months for manufacturing, warehouse and distribution operators. The announcement sets out the computing choice and safety preparations for that rollout; it does not mark the start of general availability.