Agility Robotics began trading on November 5, 2026 on the Nasdaq under the ticker AGLT, after closing its merger with the special purpose acquisition company Churchill Capital Corp XI and raising close to $465 million before expenses. It is the first company dedicated exclusively to humanoid robots to reach the U.S. stock market.
The deal takes public a company that was founded in 2015 as a spinout from Oregon State University, when a group of researchers was working on how to make a robot walk on two legs, according to TechCrunch. Bloomberg reported that the amount includes about $201 million from a private placement led by Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer that operates plants in Mexico. For Mexican industry the figure matters: one of the nine customers already operating the Digit robot is Mercado Libre, which has logistics operations in the country, and the automation of warehouses and manufacturing lines is the same work served by the Bajío industrial corridor.
Digit is used today for repetitive loading tasks: at a GXO logistics facility it has moved more than 100,000 containers, and the company reports nine customers, among them Schaeffler, GXO, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada and Mercado Libre. The financial figures show the scale of the challenge. Agility booked $174,000 in revenue in the first six months of 2026, mostly from related parties, and lost $362 million in the same period, according to TechCrunch. The company says it has $300 million in planned contracts with 30 customers for its new generation, Digit 5, and a plant with capacity to produce 10,000 robots a year.
The next milestone is CES 2027, where the company will show the Digit 5 prototypes, with broad availability expected by the end of that year. Before then it will have to meet performance, operating time and placement accuracy targets that its customers put in writing.
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