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Digit vs MagicBot Z1 in 2026

Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.

Key differences

On DEPLOY's record, Digit is further along: at the commercial stage versus MagicBot Z1 at the pilot stage, as of 2026.

Digit has more capabilities independently verified as autonomous (1 vs 0).
Digit has more verified real-world deployments (11 vs 2).
Digit is at the commercial stage; MagicBot Z1 at the pilot stage.

Attribute	Digit View full model page →	MagicBot Z1 View full model page →
Manufacturer	Agility Robotics	MagicLab
Form factor	humanoid	humanoid
Maturity	commercial	pilot
Autonomy	✓ 1 verified autonomous	◐ not independently verified
Availability	internal-onlyenterprise	internal-onlyenterprise
Price	$100,000-$250,000 (analyst estimate)	no price disclosed (not announced)
Capability claims	Fetches items (autonomous, verified)	Picks and packs (demo-only, demonstrated-once)
Brain	GR00T N1 (Isaac GR00T) (foundation-model)	—
Verified deployments	11	2MagicLab, MagicLab
Privacy practices	—	—
Sources on file	45	8

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Editorial summaries

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.

MagicBot Z1

MagicLab's MagicBot Z1 (unveiled July 8, 2025 in Beijing) is a roughly 140-centimeter, 40-kilogram humanoid (24-to-49 degrees of freedom, in-house actuators) marketed for agile motion via side-flip and martial-arts demonstrations; the MagicBot Gen1 has appeared in factory multi-robot demos. DEPLOY records it at pilot maturity with no verified deployments.

The verified-vs-claimed point is central here: the side-flip and martial-arts clips are choreographed or teleoperated demonstrations, not autonomous task performance, and the factory demos are demonstrations, not verified at-scale deployment. As a pilot platform it has no consumer price.

Common questions

How do Digit and MagicBot Z1 differ?

On DEPLOY's record, Digit is further along: at the commercial stage versus MagicBot Z1 at the pilot stage, as of 2026. Digit has more capabilities independently verified as autonomous (1 vs 0). Digit has more verified real-world deployments (11 vs 2). Digit is at the commercial stage; MagicBot Z1 at the pilot stage.

What is the difference between Digit and MagicBot Z1?

Digit and MagicBot Z1 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 Digit or MagicBot Z1 more autonomous?

Digit has more capabilities independently verified as autonomous on the DEPLOY registry than MagicBot Z1. 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, Digit or MagicBot Z1?

Digit has more verified deployments (11) on the DEPLOY registry than MagicBot Z1 (2). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.

Recent coverage

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