Agility Robotics' Digit 4 debuts with unlisted speed specs and a mysterious large backpack
MarwaEldiwiny · x · 2026-09-21
Agility Robotics showed off Digit 4, its latest humanoid, with notable design changes — and notable omissions.
Biggest question: speed, never mentioned in the specs. Then there's the unusually large backpack — battery, compute, cooling, something else? Digit is already one of the heavier humanoids out there, so what they're not showing may matter more than what they showed. Full analysis video in the post.
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