Agility Robotics, FORT Robotics Sign MOU to Advance Digit 5 Safety

Agility Robotics, a humanoid robotics and physical AI company, and FORT Robotics, a safety platform company, signed a memorandum of understanding on October 1, 2026, establishing a strategic partnership around the safety infrastructure of Digit 5, Agility’s next-generation humanoid robot, the companies announced. The agreement includes a jointly developed off-robot interface called the Offboard Safety Bridge. The partnership deepens a multi-year engagement that grew 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 the Offboard Safety Bridge, designed to extend Agility’s cooperative-safety approach beyond the robot itself and enhance the onboard safety architecture already planned for Digit 5. The MOU also establishes an operating framework for how the two companies will work together as Digit 5 begins deployment and scales into more complex commercial environments, covering joint hardware development, solutions engineering, regulatory compliance, and deployment support.

The companies described the framework as reinforcing a shared commitment to a rigorous, transparent safety…