Agility showed Digit 5's specifications on September 15 and expects general availability by the end of 2027. That leaves the barrier-free safety architecture two years to produce field data for buyers weighing a 284-pound biped.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 40%
- Operator
- Operator 40%
- Investor
- Investor 20%
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives80
- Confidence55
The company says its Digit 5 humanoid can work safely beside people, holds more than $300 million of multiyear orders, and does not expect general availability until the end of 2027. It plans to list at $2.5 billion.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives84
- Confidence56
The pre-money equity value is $800m against the $3.3bn a 2021 blank-check deal agreed to, and the revenue behind it comes from licensing PlusAI's internal toolchain rather than from selling self-driving trucks.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption34
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives82
- Confidence51
Elroy Air flew spare parts and water jugs out of a busy Louisiana rotorcraft field while controllers sequenced it among crewed traffic, which is a harder thing to arrange than the aircraft, and the FAA administrator put his name to it.
Reality
- Evidence54
- Adoption27
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives82
- Confidence46
Redemptions cut the SPAC's proceeds from about $500m to $360m. Pasqal still lands with roughly 19 times its 2025 revenue in the bank, and that cash cushion is the part of the pitch a pilot customer is actually underwriting.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives72
- Confidence52
Peggy Johnson says the SPAC still closes this fall. The order book is $300M of potential contract value, not revenue, and the trust money depends on redemptions.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives84
- Confidence58