Agility Robotics News
Latest Agility Robotics news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. $1B raised. 20 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
About Agility Robotics
Agility Robotics designs, manufactures and deploys bipedal humanoid robots for industrial and logistics automation. The company was founded in 2015 as a spin-off from Oregon State University's Dynamic Robotics Laboratory by Jonathan Hurst, Damion Shelton and Mikhail Jones, building on earlier research into legged locomotion. It is headquartered in Salem, Oregon, where it operates "RoboFab," a dedicated humanoid robot manufacturing facility.
Its flagship product is Digit, a bipedal humanoid robot used for material handling tasks such as moving totes and unloading trailers in warehouses and distribution centers. Digit has been commercially deployed since 2021 with customers including GXO Logistics, Schaeffler, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, Mercado Libre and AGCO. The company is developing a next-generation robot, Digit 5, with early-access deliveries expected from 2027, and also offers Arc, a cloud-based fleet management platform for its robots.
On November 5, 2026, Agility Robotics began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker AGLT following a business combination with the SPAC Churchill Capital Corp XI, becoming the first U.S. publicly listed pure-play humanoid robotics company. The deal valued the company at approximately $2.5 billion and raised roughly $465 million in gross proceeds, including a PIPE led by Foxconn. Prior to the listing, Agility had raised over $600 million in private funding from investors including DCVC, Playground Global, Amazon's Industrial Innovation Fund, SoftBank and NVIDIA's NVentures.
Key facts
Products by Agility Robotics
- Digit (Robot, 2021) — Bipedal humanoid robot commercially deployed for material handling tasks in warehouses and logistics facilities.
- Digit 5 (Robot, 2027) — Next-generation humanoid robot from Agility with early-access customer deliveries expected from 2027.
- Arc (Software) — Cloud-based platform for managing and operating fleets of Agility's humanoid robots.
Funding rounds
- Post-IPO — $465M — 2026 — led by Churchill Capital Corp XI
- Series D — $400M — 2025 — led by WP Global Partners
- Series C — $150M — 2022 — led by DCVC, Playground Global
- Series B — $20M — 2020 — led by DCVC, Playground Global
- Series A — $8M — 2018 — led by Playground Global
- Seed — $792K — 2016 — led by The Robotics Hub
Latest Agility Robotics news
- Theseus Robotics' Theo Promises 400 Shelf Restocks an Hour, No Retrofit Required — YC-backed Theseus Robotics exited stealth with Theo, a wheeled-humanoid system that claims to restock supermarket shelves overnight at up to 400 units...
- GXO Expands Agility's Digit Humanoid to Two More Warehouses as 30-Plus Buyers Line Up — GXO will deploy Agility's Digit humanoid at sites in Statesville, North Carolina, and Lebanon, Tennessee, in early 2027, after Digit moved over 100,00...
- Agility Robotics Clears Final Vote to Go Public on Nasdaq as AGLT This Week — Shareholders approved Agility Robotics' $2.5 billion merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI on November 2, clearing the way for Nasdaq trading under ti...
- AgiBot Runs Six G2 Humanoids Through a 24-Hour Convenience Store Shift — AgiBot livestreamed six G2 humanoid robots working a full day-and-night shift in a Chinese convenience store, testing coffee-making, stocking and cust...
- Humanoid Robot Battery Market Could Reach $850 Million by 2037, IDTechEx Says — IDTechEx forecasts the humanoid robot battery market will grow at 34.2% a year to top $850 million by 2037, reaching 10.5 GWh of demand as makers chas...
- ID Logistics and Terra Robotics Test Twin Unitree Humanoids on German Warehouse Sorting — ID Logistics and Terra Robotics are running two Unitree G1 humanoids, IDA and Heinz, ahead of a six-month pilot sorting packages in a German warehouse...
- IL Corp Puts Humanoid Robots on a Live Factory Line at RoboWorld 2026 — South Korea's IL Corp will show its ILBOT H2 and Y1 humanoids validated on a real injection molding line at RoboWorld 2026, as its humanoid unit start...
- Bleu Robotics Raises €5 Million to Teach Industrial Humanoids New Tasks in Minutes — Paris-based Bleu Robotics has raised a €5 million pre-seed round to scale software that teaches industrial humanoid robots new tasks from a handful of...
- Otto Group Deploys 25 NVIDIA-Powered Robots to Sort Returns in Poland — Otto Group and Sereact will roll out up to 25 dual-arm robots running Cortex, a physical AI model that can handle unfamiliar items without prior train...
- Agility Robotics Nears Nasdaq Debut With $465M Raise, $300M Digit 5 Backlog — Agility Robotics expects to raise $465 million through its SPAC merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI, backed by more than $300 million in committed o...
- Meta Built a 106-Pound Humanoid Robot With China's Fourier in Just 3 Months — Meta and China's Fourier built a 106-pound humanoid prototype called Max in three months, running on Nvidia's Jetson Thor chip, as Meta tests a physic...
- Agility Robotics Says Digit Won't Be Its Last Form Factor As It Weighs Wheeled Robots — Digit maker Agility Robotics is quietly exploring wheeled robot form factors as CEO Jonathan Hurst argues customers need bots in operation now, not tw...
- Tesla Ramps Optimus To Hundreds Per Week As Hands And Generalization Still Bottleneck — Tesla has scaled Optimus output from a few dozen units per week in Q2 to several hundred per week in August 2026, but hand assembly, sensor reliabilit...
- Agility Robotics Explores Wheeled Robots Beyond Humanoid Digit — CEO Jonathan Hurst confirms Agility is prototyping wheeled robots to widen its addressable market beyond the bipedal Digit platform.
- Agility Robotics Sets Oct 6 Investor Day To Showcase Digit 5 Humanoid — Agility Robotics will host its first Analyst & Investor Day on October 6 in NYC, showcasing Digit 5, deployment metrics and its go-public route via Ch...
- Agility Robotics Unveils Digit 5 With 50-Pound Payload, 9-Minute Charging And New Safety Stack — The fifth-generation Digit humanoid lifts 40% more, charges in 9 minutes and introduces three new safety systems for cooperative human-robot work, wit...
- FCC Adds Foreign Humanoid And Quadruped Robots To Covered List, Reshaping US Market — The US FCC's expansion of the Covered List to include foreign-produced advanced robotic devices blocks new Chinese humanoid and quadruped platforms fr...
- XTEND AI Robotics Debuts On NYSE Under 'XTND' After $110M SPAC Deal Closes — Israeli defense-robotics maker XTEND begins trading on the NYSE under ticker XTND on September 4 after closing its $110M business combination with JFB...
- NVIDIA Unleashes Cosmos World Foundation Models For Physical AI — NVIDIA on August 27, 2026 released the next generation of its Cosmos world foundation models, plus Cosmos Reason 2 and two Omniverse-Cosmos blueprints...
- RoboStore Spins Up Robo Inc To Harden Chinese Humanoids For US Buyers — The Unitree distributor is opening a 66,000 sq ft Long Island facility in Q1 2027 to assemble and security-harden robots after the FCC's July 28 ban o...