Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid has moved more than 100,000 totes, standard warehouse bins, in a commercial GXO Logistics operation, a milestone measured in real work rather than demonstrations. A cumulative count of real tasks completed is one of the more honest metrics in robotics, because it reflects sustained operation, not a single staged feat.
Reaching six figures of real tasks means the robot has kept working across shifts, faults and edge cases, which is where most robots fail.
What it means: the metric that matters for any automation is not its top speed or headline demo but how much real work it does between failures. When evaluating a robot or any automated system, ask for its record in live operation, because sustained, boring reliability is what actually saves money.