The Toyota group plans to introduce 400,000 in-house robots at plants worldwide from 2028 or later — 150,000 at Toyota's own plants and 250,000 at group companies — as part of roughly ¥1 trillion a year of factory upgrades. The humanoid it has shown, ELEY, is a 50 kg wheeled machine with two-fingered hands. Reports disagree on whether the 400,000 are all humanoids.
Agility unveiled Digit 5 on 15 September, its first humanoid engineered to work close to people without the physical safety barriers Digit 4 required, using added sensors to detect workers and stop or sit. Payload is up 40% to repeated 50 lb lifts, with a 90-minute battery charging in 9 minutes. Early access is H1 2027.
AgiBot shipped 5,168 humanoids in 2025 against roughly 150 each for Tesla, Figure and Agility — a 30× gap. Meanwhile Unitree became the first humanoid maker to list publicly and factories are being built for volumes nobody has yet sold. A read of shipments against ambition.
Agility Robotics / Toyota — Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada contracted seven Agility Digit humanoids (starting with three) for its Woodstock RAV4 plant under a robots-as-a-service deal (~$30/hr per robot) — a pilot-to-commercial step in auto manufacturing.
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