Agility Robotics

Agility Robotics is the creator of Digit, a bipedal humanoid robot purpose-built for logistics and warehouse operations. Founded in 2015 as an Oregon State University spinout by roboticist Jonathan Hurst, Agility has raised $641 million including a $400 million Series C in 2025 at a $2.1 billion valuation, backed by Amazon ICAD and DCVC.

Digit — standing 5 feet 9 inches with up to 50 lb payload — is the first humanoid robot commercially deployed at Amazon fulfilment centres, achieving a 98% task success rate on tote recycling tasks after 18 months of testing at Amazon Sumner facility, operating at $10-12 per hour versus $30 per hour for equivalent human labour. Agility opened RoboFab in Salem, Oregon in 2024 — the first purpose-built high-volume humanoid manufacturing facility in the US — with capacity to produce 10,000 Digit units per year.

The company is pursuing ISO functional safety certification to enable Digit to collaborate directly with human workers without safety barriers, expected mid-to-late 2026. Key differentiator: Digit is logistics-first, with leg biomechanics designed for traversing existing warehouse infrastructure, prioritising commercial reliability over general-purpose dexterity.

Agility is the vendor-durability outlier in this category. In July 2026 it agreed to go public through a merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI in a transaction valuing it at about $2.5 billion, expected to close by the end of 2026 with a Nasdaq listing under the ticker AGLT — which would put a pure-play humanoid maker's finances on the public record for the first time, something no buyer can obtain from Figure, Apptronik or 1X.

The merger disclosures also set out commercial traction the private competitors do not publish: more than 65,000 hours of real-world robot operation, over 100,000 totes moved for GXO in a single year, more than $300 million of multi-year Digit v5 orders subject to contractual milestones, and a pipeline of more than 30 customers. Named users now include Schaeffler, GXO, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada and Mercado Libre, and a new Fremont, California facility opened in July 2026 to accelerate physical-AI development alongside the Salem manufacturing site.

Best fit: warehouse and 3PL operators buying on measurable throughput and supplier stability rather than on general-purpose capability.