Agility and FORT Robotics Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance Humanoid Robot Safety

SALEM, Ore. and PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Agility Robotics, a leading humanoid robotics and physical AI company, and FORT Robotics, a safety platform building the Trust Layer for physical AI, today signed a memorandum of understanding outlining a partnership to further advance the safety infrastructure of Digit® 5, Agility's next-generation humanoid robot engineered for cooperatively safe work at scale. The partnership will deepen a historical, multi-year engagement that has grown from a single custom hardware component into an integrated, three-part safety architecture consisting of a safety pendant, on-robot communications, and off-robot interfaces connecting Digit with external safety systems. The off-robot interface, jointly developed by FORT and Agility, is designed Humanoid robots are increasingly expected to work in spaces designed for people, a shift that depends on safety systems capable of operating reliably both on the robot and in its environment. The upcoming Digit 5 will be Agility's first humanoid robot engineered for cooperatively safe work, and will be built on a safety architecture spanning safe human detection, safety cues, and safe motion control. By combining an onboard approach with FORT's offboard communication infrastructure, the companies aim to give customers a more complete safety and efficiency envelope as Digit takes on new tasks across their facility. Digit 5's predecessors have already logged more than 65,000 hours of operation and have been deployed at customer sites including Schaeffler, GXO, and Toyota Motor Manufacturing

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Oct 01, 2026, 07:00 ET