Buying guide
Astribot S1 vs Digit in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
- Digit has more capabilities independently verified as autonomous (1 vs 0).
- Digit has more verified real-world deployments (8 vs 0).
- Astribot S1 is at the research stage; Digit at the commercial stage.
| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Stardust Intelligence | Agility Robotics |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Maturity | research | commercial |
| Autonomy | ◐ not independently verified | ✓ 1 verified autonomous |
| Availability | announced-no-dateannounced | internal-onlyenterprise |
| Price | Not announced | $100,000-$250,000 (analyst estimate) |
| Capability claims |
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| Brain | — |
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| Verified deployments | 0 | 8 |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 6 | 41 |
Editorial summaries
Astribot S1
The Astribot S1, from China's Astribot (Shenzhen), is a research humanoid that drew wide attention for fluid bimanual manipulation demonstrations (folding clothes, pouring, handling objects). There is no verified consumer price or delivery date on record, and the manipulation footage is demonstration material, not evidence of verified autonomous deployment. DEPLOY classifies its maturity as research and applies verified-vs-claimed discipline: the demos are impressive claims; verified deployment and pricing are absent.
Digit
Digit is the cohort's commercial verification anchor: the most-verified-hours humanoid in the registry, with Agility's GXO Flowery Branch deployment doing the load-bearing work. The maker-facility rule applies in reverse here. GXO operates Digit on customer-paid freight inside GXO's own warehouses, which is the commercial-deployment shape that internal-facility pilots from Tesla, 1X, and others do not yet have. Agility describes Digit's operational envelope as autonomous mobile manipulation in structured logistics; the verification anchor is what operators document at the customer site, not Agility's spec sheet.
Common questions
- What is the difference between Astribot S1 and Digit?
- Astribot S1 and Digit are both humanoid robots on the DEPLOY registry. They differ in maker, maturity, price, verified deployments, and how much of their autonomy is independently verified. See the table above for the full head-to-head; each figure is sourced.
- Is Astribot S1 or Digit more autonomous?
- Digit has more capabilities independently verified as autonomous on the DEPLOY registry than Astribot S1. DEPLOY counts a capability as autonomous only when verified at a real deployment, not from a demo or a vendor claim.
- Which has more verified deployments, Astribot S1 or Digit?
- Digit has more verified deployments (8) on the DEPLOY registry than Astribot S1 (0). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.
Recent coverage
- ECB Digital Euro Trial Enlists Firms from Revolut to UniCreditDigit · Bloomberg Technology · 2026-07-14
- Automation Expo 2026 Returns to Mumbai with 700+ ExhibitorsDigit · TimesTech · 2026-07-14
- Chinese startup unveils $13K humanoid robot for wider accessibilityAstribot S1 · AgentRecon · 2025-07-01
- Shenzhen's Stardust Intelligence Secures Over 1B Yuan in Series BAstribot S1 · AgentRecon · 2025-06-01
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