Agility Robotics, the Oregon-based maker of the bipedal Digit warehouse humanoid, is exploring wheeled robot designs, CEO Jonathan Hurst told The Robot Report, opening a second commercial path alongside its legged flagship. The move surfaced when a wheeled robot rendering flashed briefly through the Digit 5 launch video posted this month.
Why Add Wheels
Hurst framed the exploration as an addressable-market question rather than a pivot. Legged robots earn their keep in unstructured, human-scale environments; but many warehouses, factories and back-of-house retail spaces are engineered flat, and there wheels deliver more stability, longer runtimes and lower total cost. "We are exploring a range of robot designs and form factors, including wheels," Hurst said. Whether the result becomes a wheeled Digit variant or an entirely new platform is "too early to say."
Digit 5 Momentum Continues
Digit's newest version, Digit v5, arrived in September with redesigned legs, larger batteries and revamped safety systems. That platform underpins Agility's Oct. 6 investor day and a $300 million-plus multi-year order book that CEO Hurst has repeatedly cited. A wheeled companion could help Agility grow the deployed fleet without waiting for legged robots to solve every last-mile edge case.
A Broader Bet On Modular Fleets
CTO Pras Velagapudi has emphasized that Agility's operations software already treats Digit as one node in a customer's automation stack. Adding wheeled units to that same fleet controller would let customers assign the cheaper platform to flat picking rows and reserve legged units for stair climbing, curb crossing and mixed-terrain work — mirroring a modular strategy Toyota and Amazon are already pursuing with in-house robots.
No Timeline Yet
Agility has not put a release date on any wheeled product. Hurst emphasized the exploration is in the concept stage, and no additional details were shared. Investors watching the pending SPAC listing will look for more concrete plans at the October 6 investor day, where Agility has already teased Digit 5 deployment progress and its Toyota-scale factory ambitions.
Reporting based on coverage from The Robot Report.