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AEON vs Digit 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 AEON 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 1).
  • AEON is at the pilot stage; Digit at the commercial stage.
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Agility Robotics Digit humanoid robot moving a tote onto a conveyor in a warehouse. Still from the official Agility Robotics video "Digit's First Day of Work at GXO" (2024); the frame carries the video's own on-screen caption.
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ManufacturerHexagonAgility Robotics
Form factorhumanoidhumanoid
Maturitypilotcommercial
Autonomy—✓ 1 verified autonomous
Availabilityinternal-onlyenterpriseinternal-onlyenterprise
PriceNot announced$100,000-$250,000 (analyst estimate)
Capability claims—
  • Fetches items (autonomous, verified)
Brain
Verified deployments1Hexagon11
Privacy practices——
Sources on file645

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Editorial summaries

AEON

Hexagon's AEON is an industrial humanoid robot built for factory work such as assembly lines and high-voltage EV-battery manufacturing, developed with NVIDIA, Microsoft, and the Swiss actuator maker maxon. It carries 22 sensors and self-swapping batteries (about 23 seconds) for around-the-clock operation, with a walking speed near 2.5 meters per second.

DEPLOY records it at pilot maturity with one verified deployment, at BMW Group Plant Leipzig: the honest counterpoint to aggregator 'humanoids are working in factories at scale' framing, this is a verified pilot, not commercial-at-scale. As industrial equipment sold to manufacturers, it has no consumer price.

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

How do AEON and Digit differ?
On DEPLOY's record, Digit is further along: at the commercial stage versus AEON 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 1). AEON is at the pilot stage; Digit at the commercial stage.
What is the difference between AEON and Digit?
AEON 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 AEON or Digit more autonomous?
Digit has more capabilities independently verified as autonomous on the DEPLOY registry than AEON. 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, AEON or Digit?
Digit has more verified deployments (11) on the DEPLOY registry than AEON (1). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.

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