# Agility Robotics Digit

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**Digit** is a bipedal humanoid robot built by [Agility Robotics](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/agility_robotics) (which rebranded as simply "Agility" in March 2026), an Oregon-based company that spun out of Oregon State University's Dynamic Robotics Laboratory in 2015.[41][53] Digit is built for repetitive material handling in warehouses and factories. GXO and Agility described their June 2024 multi-year agreement as the industry's first formal commercial deployment of humanoid robots and its first [Robots-as-a-Service](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/robotics_as_a_service) (RaaS) deployment of humanoids.[6] [Amazon](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/amazon) began testing Digit in October 2023,[16] and at GXO's Flowery Branch, Georgia site the robot passed 100,000 moved totes in November 2025.[8] Agility assembles Digit at RoboFab, a 70,000 square foot plant in Salem, Oregon, which the company calls the first factory purpose-built to produce humanoid robots.[4][42] On September 15, 2026 Agility unveiled Digit 5, a heavier and taller redesign that it says can work near people without physical safety barriers; early access is planned for the first half of 2027.[42] Separately, in June 2026 Agility agreed to go public through a merger with the special-purpose acquisition company Churchill Capital Corp XI at a $2.5 billion pre-money equity value. As of September 2026 the deal was expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026, with the combined company trading on Nasdaq as AGLT.[41][48]

Digit's commercial footprint is still small relative to its valuation. The September 2026 Form S-4 registration statement for Agility's SPAC merger reported 2025 net sales of $1.78 million and a net loss of $138.1 million.[46] What the company points to instead is operating history: Agility says Digit has logged more than 65,000 hours of operation across customer facilities, and it reports more than $300 million in multi-year orders for Digit 5, all of them from one customer.[42][46]

Agility Robotics should not be confused with [Agile Robots SE](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/agile_robots), a separate and unrelated robotics company with a similar name.

## Background

### From Cassie to a company

The story starts at Oregon State, where mechanical engineering professor [Jonathan Hurst](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/jonathan_hurst) ran the Dynamic Robotics Laboratory. Hurst and his co-founder Damion Shelton both earned PhDs in robotics at Carnegie Mellon University.[46] Hurst's academic work focused on the physics of legged locomotion. The lab's ATRIAS research robot, which preceded Cassie, was described by Agility as the first robot to reproduce human gait dynamics.[55]

In 2015 Hurst, Shelton, and Mikhail Jones founded Agility Robotics out of the Dynamic Robotics Laboratory to commercialize the lab's work.[41] Shelton served as CEO from December 2015 and Hurst as chief technology officer from November 2015,[46] and Digit is built on technology licensed through Oregon State's IP and licensing office.[67] Agility's SEC filing says the company started with initial funding from [DARPA](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/darpa).[46]

The company's first product was Cassie, a lower-body-only bipedal robot developed under Hurst's direction with a 16-month, $1 million DARPA grant.[40] Cassie had knees that bend like an ostrich's and ran with no cameras or external sensors. It was introduced in 2017 and sold to research laboratories.[40][58] In 2021 an Oregon State team used Cassie to cover 5 kilometers in just over 53 minutes on a single battery charge, and in September 2022 the university announced a Guinness World Record for the fastest 100 meters by a bipedal robot: 24.73 seconds, starting and ending in a standing position without falling. Oregon State said Cassie was the first bipedal robot to use machine learning to control a running gait on outdoor terrain.[40]

### Digit enters the picture

Agility unveiled Digit on February 19, 2019 as a robot that added an upper torso, arms, sensors, and additional computing power to the Cassie design. The first Digit had four-[degree-of-freedom](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/degrees_of_freedom) arms, could pick up and stack boxes of up to 40 pounds (18 kilograms) while still in testing, and carried two multi-core CPUs in its torso with a bay for a third computer.[1] In May 2019 Agility and Ford Motor Company announced a partnership to explore last-mile package delivery that combined Ford's autonomous vehicles with Digit walking from the curb to the door.[58] Ahead of CES in January 2020 Agility put Digit on sale, and Ford said it would receive the first two robots off the production line.[57] By October 2020 Agility said Digit had been shipping to customers since July 2020.[56]

Agility later shifted Digit away from last-mile delivery and toward warehouse and factory work.[17] In March 2023, at the ProMat trade show in Chicago, it launched a next-generation Digit designed around bulk material handling, with new end effectors optimized for plastic totes and a head with eyes intended to improve human-robot interaction.[2] This is the generation that Agility now calls Digit 4 (Digit v4 in its SEC filings).[42][46] When GXO announced its pilot in December 2023, the robot was 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighed 140 pounds, and could lift up to 35 pounds.[59]

### Leadership change

In 2023 Hurst moved from chief technology officer to a new chief robot officer role, and robotics veteran Melonee Wise joined as CTO.[63] On March 4, 2024 Agility appointed Peggy Johnson as chief executive officer. Shelton, who had been CEO since the company's founding, became president.[9] He later became chairman of the board in April 2025.[46] Johnson had previously been CEO of spatial computing company Magic Leap and spent six years as executive vice president of business development at [Microsoft](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/microsoft), where she launched the M12 corporate venture fund.[9] Agility said Johnson would focus on sales, strategic industry partnerships, future fundraising, and delivering robots at scale.[9]

As of September 2026 Hurst remains co-founder and chief robot officer, Pras Velagapudi is chief technology officer, Daniel Diez is chief business officer, Jennifer Hunter is chief operating officer, and Michael Beer, appointed in July 2026, is chief financial officer.[43][48][50]

## Hardware

### Physical design

Digit has two legs, two arms, a head, and a torso. Through Digit 4 the legs used backward-bending, bird-like knees carried over from Cassie; Hurst told The Robot Report that the configuration "was really optimized for very good walking and running."[43] Instead of five-fingered hands, Digit uses gripper-style end effectors built for totes and bins. Hurst has argued that "general-purpose hands don't exist," while saying Agility would buy a better third-party hand if one appeared for its use case.[43]

According to GeekWire's 2023 description of the Digit 4 robots then being tested by Amazon, the head contains internal antennas and LED eyes that blink to show which way the robot is turning, and the robot carries multiple arrays of cameras and sensors plus a [lidar](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/lidar) system.[61] Agility says Digit uses onboard cameras, depth sensors, and inertial measurement units, processes sensory data locally, and sends system health and diagnostic data to its Agility Arc cloud platform.[42]

### Specifications by generation

Agility did not give every Digit revision a public version number. The table below lists the specifications Agility or reputable outlets published for each release. Cells are left blank where no figure was published.

| Generation | Announced | Height | Mass | Payload | Runtime and charging | Notable changes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Digit (first version) | February 2019 | | | Up to 40 lb (18 kg) while in testing | | Torso, 4-DOF arms, and added compute on Cassie's legs[1] |
| Digit (commercial release) | January 2020 | | | | | Sold to customers; first two units to Ford; shipping since July 2020[56][57] |
| Digit 4 | March 2023 | 5 ft 9 in (about 1.75 m) | 140 lb (about 63.5 kg) | 35 lb (about 16 kg) | 2:1 run-to-charge ratio | Tote-optimized end effectors; head and eyes; reach up to 5.5 ft[2][42][59] |
| Digit 4 (2025 update) | March 2025 | | | | Battery up to 4 hours; autonomous docking | New limbs and end effectors; CAT1 stop, safety PLC, FSoE[3] |
| Digit 5 | September 15, 2026 (early access expected H1 2027) | 5 ft 11 in (1.81 m) | 284 lb (129 kg) | 50 lb (22.7 kg) | 90-minute battery, 9-minute charge (10:1 ratio) | Human-like legs; swappable end effectors; reach up to 7.2 ft (2.2 m); cooperative safety architecture[42][43] |

Outlets have reported slightly different masses for Digit 4: The Robot Report gave 143 pounds (64.8 kg) in 2024, and TechCrunch described the robot in 2026 as weighing "around 160 pounds."[65][36]

### Sensors, compute, and actuators

Agility runs real-time perception and [reinforcement learning](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/reinforcement_learning) controllers on NVIDIA's AI acceleration platform onboard Digit, and in March 2025 it expanded its use of [NVIDIA Isaac Sim](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/nvidia_isaac_sim) and Isaac Lab to train and test behaviors in simulation. Agility said this work had already improved step recovery, helping Digit stay upright when pushed or bumped.[62] Agility's SEC filing says the company develops its highest-value hardware in-house, including proprietary actuators, modular end effectors, its whole-body control platform, sensor architecture, system-wide safety, and a quick-charge battery configuration, and that about 75% of Digit's parts are sourced in the United States.[46] Digit 5's new legs use proprietary cycloidal actuators.[42]

### Power and charging

The March 2025 update gave Digit 4 a battery that runs more efficiently and lasts up to four hours, plus autonomous docking onto a charging station.[3] Agility describes Digit 4's run-to-charge ratio as 2:1.[42] Digit 5 moves to a 90-minute battery that charges in 9 minutes, a 10:1 ratio that Agility says allows more than 20 hours of productive work in a 24-hour day.[42]

### Safety hardware

The March 2025 update added a Category 1 (CAT1) stop, a safety programmable logic controller meeting Performance Level d (PLd), an on-robot emergency stop button, a wireless teach pendant with an integrated E-stop, and FailSafe over [EtherCAT](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/ethercat) (FSoE) for safety-critical communication.[3] Announcing the update, Agility chief product officer Melonee Wise said, "These upgrades allow Agility to expand Digit's capabilities to meet our expanding commercial and customer needs."[3] In November 2024 Johnson had said she was "confident that in the next 24 months, Agility will be the first company to deliver a safe humanoid robot that will be able to work alongside people."[10] Until Digit 5, Digit worked fenced off from human colleagues: TIME reported this in 2024, and in 2025 it described Agility's robots as operating "in cordoned zones that humans cannot enter."[66][27]

### Digit 5

Agility unveiled Digit 5 on September 15, 2026 and calls it its first humanoid "engineered for cooperatively safe work at scale," able to work close to people without the physical barriers traditional automation requires.[42] The company's June 2026 investor materials had called the same robot "Digit v5."[41] Agility's press release did not name a launch venue.

**Safety architecture.** Agility lists three new safety layers. Safe human detection uses proprietary AI algorithms and multiple sensor types to watch for people and respond by avoiding them, stopping, or sitting down. Safety cues use lights and sounds to signal what the robot is about to do. Safe motion control is an independent safety controller that triggers the right response when a person comes within an unsafe distance.[42] Hurst told The Robot Report that Digit 5 can detect people in a full 360 degrees and that "the robot needs to be in a statically stable post and be able to turn off its motors before a person can touch it."[43] Agility says Digit 5 builds on a milestone it claims for Digit 4: becoming the first humanoid to pass an independent field evaluation on a customer production line for industrial safety standards administered by OSHA. It also says it is a project leader and contributor for ANSI/A3 TR R15.108, the U.S. and Canadian technical report being developed for dynamically stable industrial mobile robots, and a contributor to ISO 25785-1, which it calls the first international safety standard for humanoids.[42]

**Hardware.** The most visible change is the legs. Digit 5 drops the backward-bending knees for more human-like legs, which Hurst said are "optimized for lifting heavy things and getting up and down off the ground a lot."[43] The knees are padded so the robot can kneel.[43] The spec changes against Digit 4, as stated by Agility:[42]

| Specification | Digit 4 | Digit 5 (announced) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Payload | 35 lb | Up to 50 lb (22.7 kg), repeatedly; about 40% more |
| Reach height | 5.5 ft | Up to 7.2 ft (2.2 m) |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in | 5 ft 11 in (1.81 m) |
| Mass | 140 lb (2023 figure) | 284 lb (129 kg) |
| Run-to-charge ratio | 2:1 | 10:1 (90-minute runtime, 9-minute charge) |
| End effectors | Tote-handling grippers | Swappable grippers on ISO-standard mounting flanges |

Agility says the 50-pound rating lets Digit 5 cover all single-person lift tasks in OSHA-regulated facilities.[42] It plans to extend Digit beyond tote handling to depalletizing, machine tending, kitting and sequencing, quality inspection, and palletizing.[42]

**Availability.** Digit 5 had not shipped as of September 2026. Agility said early access is expected to begin in the first half of 2027, with general availability for manufacturing, warehouse, and distribution operators expected by the end of 2027. For the first time it plans to offer Digit outside North America, starting with the European Union and the United Kingdom, and expects Digit 5 to carry a CE mark.[42] Agility's SEC filing says it expects Digit 5 commercialization to begin in 2027.[46]

**Reception.** IEEE Spectrum robotics editor Evan Ackerman wrote that the robot's approach to falling (putting down its load and sitting before a person gets near) "may not be elegant, but it works, which is more than can be said for any other commercial humanoid that I'm aware of." He also noted that Digit 5 was not yet deployed in factories and that Agility's cost savings figures are estimates.[44] Days after the launch, The Robot Report pointed out a wheeled humanoid rendering at the end of Agility's Digit 5 video. Hurst confirmed that Agility is "exploring a range of robot designs and form factors, including wheels," and said it was "too early to say" what form a wheeled robot might take.[52]

### Manufacturing at RoboFab

Agility announced RoboFab on September 18, 2023. The roughly 70,000 square foot factory in Salem, Oregon had begun construction the year before and was set to open later in 2023. Agility expected capacity of hundreds of Digit robots in the first year, the ability to scale to more than 10,000 robots per year, and more than 500 employees at full capacity. It said Digit would also work inside the factory, moving, loading, and unloading totes.[4] The 10,000-unit figure is still described as a design capacity. Agility's June 2026 merger announcement said the plant was "designed to support production of up to 10,000 units annually," and in September 2026 it said RoboFab was designed to produce up to 10,000 Digit robots a year at full capacity.[41][42] Agility's SEC filing projects about 800 Digit 5 robots deployed and in service in 2027, about 7,000 in 2030, and up to about 25,000 in 2035. The filing calls this an illustrative schedule.[46]

In July 2026 Agility opened a 60,000 square foot facility in Fremont, California, as its physical AI and software development hub, and said it would hire nearly 200 people there. Its Pittsburgh office leads engineering testing, validation, and skills development.[49][42]

## Functional safety and NVIDIA Halos

On June 22, 2026, [NVIDIA](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/nvidia) announced [NVIDIA Halos](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/nvidia_halos) for Robotics, which it described as the industry's first full-stack, comprehensive safety system for robotics and [physical AI](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/physical_ai) that unifies AI compute and safety. The system extends the safety architecture NVIDIA built for autonomous vehicles to robots. NVIDIA said Agility was the first company to use Halos for Robotics to build safety into its humanoids.[33] In its Digit 5 announcement Agility called itself the "first launch partner" for the platform.[42]

Agility is integrating NVIDIA IGX Thor and Halos Core into its proprietary safe human detection system for Digit. In that arrangement IGX Thor provides industrial-grade AI compute with built-in safety capabilities, and Halos Core supports the software layer for safety-related functions.[33] NVIDIA's technical blog describes three layers. The first is platform hardware: IGX Thor, whose IEC 61508 SIL 3 capable Functional Safety Island is physically isolated from the main compute domain, with over 22,000 safety mechanisms providing diagnostic coverage across the chip, plus the Holoscan Sensor Bridge. The second is the Halos OS software stack, built on Halos Core, which NVIDIA calls the next generation of NVIDIA DriveOS. The third is an application layer of reference blueprints for functional safety agents.[34]

The main application blueprint is the Outside-In Safety Blueprint, which extends a robot's perception with facility cameras and [AI agents](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/ai_agents). It has four parts. A perception pipeline built on an NVIDIA Metropolis blueprint tracks people and objects across cameras. A safety AI monitor flags out-of-distribution conditions such as dimmed lighting or a blocked camera and makes the system fall back to the robot's onboard safety. An event integrator fuses multi-camera events and discards stale ones. A safety decision maker running on the Functional Safety Island sends stop signals, adjusts robot speed, or temporarily mutes onboard safety constraints when the area is confirmed clear. NVIDIA's reference example is automated trailer loading by an autonomous forklift: the forklift's onboard safety system is muted while it is inside the trailer and no workers are in the loading area, and fully reactivated the moment a worker enters.[34]

Agility also joined the NVIDIA Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab, which NVIDIA calls the world's first ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) accredited program for functional and AI safety for physical AI. Agility and NVIDIA are using the lab to check that Digit's safety-related software, AI components, and cybersecurity protections meet standards such as IEC 61508, ISO 13849, and ISO/IEC TR 5469 before final third-party certification.[33][34] "For humanoids to deliver value at scale, safety has to be built into the robot and validated across the entire system," Johnson said.[33] NVIDIA's announcement listed Amazon, GXO, Schaeffler, and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada as customers for whom Agility's humanoids work.[33] Agility lists NVIDIA among its strategic investors and partners.[41]

## Software and AI stack

Digit's software has two main layers. The first runs on the robot and handles balance, locomotion, perception, and manipulation. Agility says its skills pipeline "blends traditional control methods, teleoperated demonstrations, policy training, and refinement through reinforcement learning and simulation."[8] Agility's SEC filing describes a proprietary physical AI layer that combines learned skills, real-time coordination, and physics-based control.[46] Johnson told TechCrunch in July 2026 that Agility is "LLM-agnostic," using models including [Claude](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/claude) and [Gemini](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/gemini) for a semantic layer that turns high-level instructions into robot behavior, and that Agility treats the physical layer of balance, locomotion, and manipulation as its core proprietary advantage.[36] Agility has also named [Google DeepMind](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/google_deepmind) and NVIDIA as technology collaborators.[41]

The second layer is Agility Arc, a cloud platform for deploying and managing fleets of Digit robots, launched at MODEX on March 11, 2024.[5] Arc covers facility mapping, workflow definition, operational management, and troubleshooting. It reports KPIs such as uptime, throughput, and mean time between incidents, and provides APIs for warehouse management systems (WMS), warehouse execution systems (WES), and manufacturing execution systems (MES).[5] The March 2025 update added the ability for Arc to call and dispatch autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) from companies such as MiR and Zebra, along with remote monitoring, support, and maintenance of Digit.[3]

On April 4, 2024 Agility announced a partnership with Manhattan Associates to integrate Digit and Agility Arc with the Manhattan Active Warehouse Management system. Agility became the first humanoid robotics provider in Manhattan's partner and automation network programs.[12]

## Where is Digit deployed?

As of June 2026 Agility said Digit had deployment commitments across nine customer facilities and had accumulated more than 65,000 hours of operation.[41] It listed its active commercial customers as Schaeffler, GXO, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, and Mercado Libre.[41]

### Amazon

Amazon announced at its Delivering the Future event on October 18, 2023 that it would begin testing Digit. Amazon Robotics chief technologist Tye Brady said the testing was in its "very, very early stages."[16] The first tests took place at Amazon's BFI1 facility in Sumner, Washington, which GeekWire described as both a research and development site and a working fulfillment center.[61] Amazon's first use for Digit was tote recycling: picking up and moving empty totes once all inventory had been picked from them.[16][60]

Amazon's Industrial Innovation Fund invested in Agility's $150 million Series B in April 2022, a round led by DCVC and Playground Global that also included MFV Partners, ITIC, Robotics Hub, Safar Partners, Sony Innovation Fund, and TDK Ventures.[11] According to GeekWire's reading of Agility's SEC filing, Amazon bought five Digit robots for $1.05 million.[45] In June 2026 an Agility spokesperson told GeekWire that the company had "completed multiple pilots" with Amazon and looked forward to working with it again once the next-generation robot launched.[38]

### GXO Logistics

GXO, which calls itself the world's largest pure-play contract logistics provider, announced in December 2023 that it was running a proof-of-concept pilot of Digit at the Spanx facility it operates in Flowery Branch, Georgia.[59] On June 27, 2024 GXO and Agility signed a multi-year agreement to deploy Digit in GXO's operations. The companies called it both the industry's first formal commercial deployment of humanoid robots and its first RaaS deployment of humanoids.[6] Under RaaS, GXO pays for the robots as a service rather than buying them outright.

GXO chief automation officer Adrian Stoch said the companies were "building on the success of last year's groundbreaking pilot with Agility by deploying fully operational Digit humanoids into a live warehouse environment."[6] Johnson said: "There will be many firsts in the humanoid robot market in the years to come, but I'm extremely proud of the fact that Agility is the first with actual humanoid robots deployed at a customer site, generating revenue, and solving real-world business problems."[6] At Flowery Branch, Digit moves totes from cobots and AMRs onto conveyors, coordinated through Agility Arc.[6][65]

### 100,000 totes

On November 20, 2025 Agility announced that Digit had moved more than 100,000 totes at GXO's Flowery Branch facility.[8] Agility said the work included picking totes on and off AMRs, loading items onto conveyors, and stacking containers at different floor locations.[8][18] Agility later said Digit 4 kept about 98% accuracy while on-task during that run.[42] The Robot Report gave Digit an award in its 2026 RBR50 program for the milestone, having named Digit its inaugural Robot of the Year in 2024.[37][65]

### Schaeffler

On November 13, 2024, at the Web Summit conference, Agility announced that German motion technology company Schaeffler had made a minority investment in Agility. The two companies also signed an agreement under which Schaeffler intends to buy Digit robots for use across its global plant network. Schaeffler said it saw the potential to deploy a significant number of humanoids across its 100 plants by 2030.[10] In March 2025 Agility said it was using NVIDIA's Mega Omniverse Blueprint with Schaeffler to build digital twins that coordinate Digit deployments.[62]

### Mercado Libre

On December 10, 2025 Mercado Libre, which describes itself as the leading commerce and fintech ecosystem in Latin America, announced a commercial agreement to deploy Digit at its facility in San Antonio, Texas. Digit would start with commerce fulfillment tasks, and the companies planned to explore more uses across Mercado Libre's Latin American warehouses.[39] Agustin Costa, Mercado Libre's senior vice president of shipping, called the deployment "a significant step forward in our vision to create a safer, more efficient, and adaptable logistics network," and Agility chief business officer Daniel Diez said the company was "incredibly proud to be partnering with Mercado Libre to support their workforce and operations."[39]

### Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada

On February 19, 2026 Agility announced that Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC) had signed a Robots-as-a-Service commercial agreement after a pilot. TMMC plans to deploy Digit to support employees in manufacturing, supply chain, and logistics operations.[54] TMMC president Tim Hollander said that "after evaluating a number of robots, we are excited to deploy Digit to improve the team member experience and further increase operational efficiency in our manufacturing facilities."[54]

### Customers and partners

| Customer or partner | Relationship | Year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ford Motor Company | Last-mile delivery research partnership; first two production Digits | 2019-2020 |
| Amazon | Investor (2022); Digit pilots starting at BFI1, Sumner, Washington | 2022-2023 |
| GXO Logistics | Pilot (2023), then multi-year RaaS agreement at Flowery Branch, Georgia | 2023-2024 |
| Manhattan Associates | Warehouse management software integration partnership | 2024 |
| Schaeffler | Minority investment plus agreement to buy Digit robots for its plant network | 2024 |
| NVIDIA | Simulation and AI collaboration (2025); first Halos for Robotics partner (2026); investor | 2025-2026 |
| Mercado Libre | Commercial agreement, San Antonio, Texas | 2025 |
| Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada | RaaS commercial agreement after a pilot | 2026 |

Agility's Digit 5 orders are concentrated in one account. Its SEC filing says the more than $300 million of Digit 5 orders, as of May 2026, relate to 1,000 Digit 5 robots under a three-year RaaS contract, subject to contractual milestones and product features. The contract includes warrants issued to the purchaser that vest as robots are deployed.[46] The filing does not name the customer.[45]

## Funding history

Agility's SEC filing says the company had raised gross proceeds of about $395.8 million, mainly through preferred equity, through December 31, 2025.[46] GeekWire, citing the June 2026 investor presentation, reported more than $390 million in equity raised since 2015.[38] The table below lists the rounds that Agility or its filings have disclosed.

| Round | Date | Amount | Lead investor(s) | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Early funding | 2015-2017 | Not itemized | Robotics Hub was an investor before 2018 | DARPA grant funded Cassie; total raised reached $8.792 million after the 2018 round[40][55] |
| Series A | March 2018 | $8 million | Playground Global | With Sony Innovation Fund and Robotics Hub[55] |
| Venture round | October 2020 | $20 million | DCVC and Playground Global | With TDK Ventures, MFV Partners, ITIC, Sony Innovation Fund, Safar Partners; total raised $29 million[56] |
| Series B | April 2022 | $150 million | DCVC and Playground Global | With the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund and earlier investors[11] |
| Strategic investment | November 2024 | Undisclosed | Schaeffler | Minority investment alongside purchase agreement[10] |
| Convertible notes | Converted November 14, 2024 | Not stated | Not stated | Converted into Series C-2 preferred stock[46] |
| Series C-3 | June 2025 to March 2026 | Term sheet contemplated up to $400 million | WP Global (reported) | $66.1452 per share; The Information reported a $1.75 billion pre-investment valuation with SoftBank participating[26][46] |
| SAFEs | July 2026 | $100 million | Strategic and institutional investors | Expected to convert into about 1,348,000 common shares[46] |
| SPAC merger (pending) | Announced June 24, 2026 | More than $620 million expected gross proceeds | Churchill Capital Corp XI; PIPE led by Foxconn | $2.5 billion pre-money equity value; ticker AGLT[41] |

In its June 2026 announcement Agility listed its strategic investors and partners as DCVC, NVIDIA, Amazon, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, [Foxconn](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/foxconn), Schaeffler, Abico, and Playground Global.[41]

## Is Agility Robotics publicly traded?

As of September 25, 2026 Agility was still privately held, with a pending deal to change that. On June 24, 2026 the company agreed to merge with Churchill Capital Corp XI (Nasdaq: CCXI), a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) led by chairman and CEO Michael Klein.[41] The registration statement notes that an earlier SPAC sponsored by affiliates of Churchill XI's sponsor, Churchill Capital Corp IV, merged with Lucid Group in July 2021.[46] The deal gives Agility a pre-money equity value of $2.5 billion.[41] Agility called the combined company "the only U.S. publicly listed pure-play humanoid company with proven, active commercial deployments."[41] The U.S. qualifier matters: Chinese robot maker Unitree listed on Shanghai's STAR Market in August 2026.[51]

The deal is expected to deliver more than $620 million in gross proceeds. That total comprises $420 million held in Churchill's trust account, assuming no shareholder redemptions, and about $200 million from a common stock PIPE (private investment in public equity) committed at $10 per share, led by Foxconn with participation from existing and new institutional investors.[41] Later filings put these at $421 million and about $201 million.[47] TechCrunch called it "the largest capital raise in humanoid robotics history."[36] All existing Agility shareholders will roll their equity into the combined company and be locked up for 180 days after closing.[41]

Timeline of the transaction:

| Date | Event |
| --- | --- |
| June 24, 2026 | Definitive business combination agreement announced; listing exchange not yet named[41][64] |
| July 14, 2026 | Draft registration statement on Form S-4 confidentially submitted to the SEC[47] |
| September 4, 2026 | Form S-4 registration statement publicly filed[46] |
| September 17, 2026 | Agility says closing is expected in Q4 2026, with trading on Nasdaq as AGLT; Analyst and Investor Day set for October 6, 2026 in New York[48] |

Closing still requires Churchill shareholder approval, SEC review of the registration statement, regulatory approvals, exchange listing approval, and other customary conditions.[41][47]

The S-4 gave the first detailed view of Agility's finances. Agility reported net sales of $1.78 million in 2025, up from $310,000 in 2024. Cost of goods sold was $4.47 million, loss from operations was $140.2 million, and net loss was $138.1 million. Cash used in operating activities was $99.8 million, and the company held $103.0 million in cash and cash equivalents at the end of 2025.[46] The filing also says management had determined that existing cash would not be sufficient to fund operations for at least one year from the date the financial statements were issued.[46] At the June announcement, Klein said, "Agility is a humanoid first mover with proven technology, real-world deployments, and the trust of some of the world's most demanding enterprises."[41] Johnson told investors, "Companies don't buy tech; they buy solutions. At Agility, we're doing just that."[37] Speaking to TechCrunch in July 2026, she said humanoids in the home were "10-plus years" away, contrasting the fixed aisles and predictable workflows of warehouses with chaotic homes.[36]

## How does Digit compare to other humanoids?

Most of Digit's direct competitors are privately held and publish few operating figures, so the comparison below uses reported financing rather than specifications. In July 2026 TechCrunch put Agility's roughly $2.5 billion SPAC valuation in the context of much larger private rounds:[36]

| Company | Reported financing (as reported by TechCrunch or The Robot Report) |
| --- | --- |
| [Agility](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/agility_robotics) | SPAC at about $2.5 billion; more than $620 million expected gross proceeds[36] |
| [Figure AI](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/figure_ai) | Self-reported $1 billion Series C at a $39 billion valuation (fall 2025)[36] |
| [Apptronik](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/apptronik) | $935 million round at more than $5.5 billion (2026)[36] |
| AI2 Robotics | About $735 million at a nearly $3 billion valuation (2026)[36] |
| [Unitree](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/unitree) | STAR Market IPO in August 2026 raising 6.1 billion yuan (about $905 million)[51] |

Agility's case to investors rests on deployment history, not funding. It says Digit has the longest tenure of any humanoid actively working in industrial facilities, with nearly three years of continuous commercial deployment.[42] Hurst has said that moving from demos to deployment meant meeting FCC requirements, UL and ISO certifications, and hundreds of customer-derived engineering requirements.[43] Agility has stuck with grippers rather than human-like hands; Hurst said no hand on the market "can pick up 25-kg [55.1-lb.] bins and do complex manipulation with them, but our manipulator can."[43]

## Reception

The Robot Report named Digit its inaugural RBR50 Robot of the Year in 2024.[65] TIME included Digit in its Best Inventions of 2024 and put it on the magazine's cover, and named Johnson to the TIME100 AI list in August 2025.[66][67][27]

### How much does Digit cost?

Agility has not published a list price. Its SEC filing gives illustrative unit economics for Digit 5. Under RaaS, a robot would cost $8,500 a month plus a one-time deployment fee of about $25,000. Under ownership, a customer would pay about $200,000 upfront, a deployment fee of about $20,000, and about $36,000 a year for Arc software and maintenance. The filing estimates a bill of materials of about $150,000 per robot at commercial launch, targeting about $75,000 at 1,000 robots a year and about $30,000 at 10,000 a year.[46] In June 2026, then-CFO Jennifer Hunter put Digit 4's bill of materials at $125,000.[37] IEEE Spectrum, working from the filing's assumptions, calculated that Digit 5 as a service could save an employer about $100,000 a year per robot. It warned that this assumes Digit 5 is a near drop-in replacement for human labor.[44] In 2024 TIME reported Johnson's estimate that Digit would return its investment in less than two years, measured against a human worker costing $30 an hour.[66]

Commentators have focused on the gap between Agility's valuation and its revenue. The Robot Report calculated that the $2.5 billion valuation equals roughly 1,400 times 2025 revenue. It wrote that the small amount of recognized revenue "underscores how early Agility and other legged humanoid developers remain in scaling their businesses."[51][52] GeekWire noted that the $300 million backlog "is not a measure of current period revenue" and comes from a single undisclosed customer.[38]

On labor, Agility states that its mission is "to build robot partners that augment the human workforce," and Johnson has pointed to more than a million unfilled U.S. jobs in warehouse and manufacturing work.[41][36]

## See also

- [Agility Robotics](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/agility_robotics)
- [NVIDIA Halos](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/nvidia_halos)
- [Physical AI](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/physical_ai)
- [Apptronik Apollo](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/apptronik_apollo)
- [Figure 03](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/figure_03)
- [Tesla Optimus Gen 3](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/tesla_optimus_gen_3)
- [1X Neo](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/1x_neo)
- [Unitree H1](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/unitree_h1)
- [Boston Dynamics Atlas](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/atlas_robot)
- [Humanoid robot](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/humanoid_robot)
- [Bipedal locomotion](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/bipedal_locomotion)
- [Robots-as-a-Service](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/robotics_as_a_service)
- [Warehouse automation](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/warehouse_automation)

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