Buying guide
Digit vs Phoenix in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
- Digit has more verified real-world deployments (8 vs 1).
- Digit is at the commercial stage; Phoenix at the pilot stage.
| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Agility Robotics | Sanctuary AI |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Maturity | commercial | pilot |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | internal-onlyenterprise | announced-no-dateannounced |
| Price | Not announced | Not announced |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain |
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| Verified deployments | 8 | 1Magna International |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 38 | 14 |
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.
Phoenix
Phoenix is an emerging-stage research humanoid from Sanctuary AI, the Canadian company (Geordie Rose, Suzanne Gildert) pursuing a cognitive-architecture approach distinct from foundation-model peers. There is no consumer product, price, or availability on record; the editorial position is honest-absence.
Common questions
- What is the difference between Digit and Phoenix?
- Digit and Phoenix 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.
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