Agility Robotics disclosed illustrative pricing for its two-legged robot Digit in a securities filing. A customer buying the next-generation Digit v5 would pay for the robot, a one-time deployment fee, and annual software and maintenance. Over an assumed five-year useful life, the total comes to roughly $400,000 per robot. Agility says the robot should pay for itself in about 1.1 years. It cited productivity, uptime and worker availability in that calculation, but did not show the math. The company stressed the figures are modelling estimates and that contracts are negotiated. Digit is designed to work about 20 hours a day and lift up to 50 pounds. The earlier v4 version runs at nine customer sites, including GXO, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada and Amazon. Agility expects to release v5 later this year. Unitree advertises a humanoid from $13,500, but mainly for research use.
What changed
Humanoid robot makers had rarely disclosed pricing for industrial use.
What it unlocks
Comparing the five-year cost of a humanoid robot against human labour costs.
- $200,000 per Digit v5 robot
- $20,000 one-time deployment fee
- $36,000/year software and maintenance
- breakeven in about 1.1 years
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