Agility Robotics’ common stock and warrants are set to begin trading today on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the tickers AGLT and AGLTW, a debut the company bills as making it the first U.S. publicly listed pure-play humanoid robotics company with proven, active commercial deployments, the Salem, Oregon, company said.
The debut follows the Nov. 4 close of Agility’s business combination with Churchill Capital Corp XI, a special purpose acquisition company. The deal and related financings brought in about $465 million in gross capital before expenses, including a Foxconn-led PIPE and $100 million of equity funding received before closing, according to Agility’s trading-day release and an earlier closing announcement.
Humanoid builders have drawn heavy investor attention this year even as most remain private, a pattern WebProNews has tracked in coverage of factory-scale humanoid plans and Boston Dynamics’ push to grow robot sales. Agility’s listing puts one commercially deployed player on a U.S. exchange while rival Figure AI remains private and Tesla’s Optimus program sits inside a much larger automaker.
“Today marks an important milestone for Agility, but the bigger story is what it means for the future of work,” CEO Peggy Johnson said in the company’s statement. “Digit is doing real work in customer operations today, taking on repetitive, physically demanding tasks.”
Orders, customers and a thin revenue line
Agility says Digit, its bipedal warehouse and factory robot, has logged more than 65,000 hours in the field with enterprises including GXO, Schaeffler and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada. GXO expanded the partnership to two more U.S. logistics sites expected to start in early 2027, after Digit moved more than 100,000 totes at a Georgia site. AGCO has signed for a Digit pilot at its Hesston, Kansas, plant in 2027, and Agility lists a pipeline of more than 30 prospective customers.
For Digit 5, unveiled in September, Agility reports more than $300 million in committed multi-year orders that still depend on contractual milestones, product features and specifications. Early customer access is aimed at the first half of 2027, with general availability targeted for the end of that year. The platform is designed for closer work beside people, with cycloidal actuators for repetitive lifts up to 50 pounds, interchangeable end effectors, NVIDIA IGX Thor compute plans, FORT Robotics safety gear and Nyobolt batteries Agility says can recharge in nine minutes for more than 20 hours of work in a day.
Those orders sit against a still-small commercial book. In an interview with TechCrunch ahead of the debut, Johnson said Agility stuck to “manual, very repetitive jobs” rather than dancing or backflipping demos. TechCrunch reported the company recorded about $174,000 in revenue in the first six months of 2026, mostly from related parties, and lost $362 million in the same period. Johnson told the outlet the Digit 5 commitments were “one of the driving factors” behind going public, without naming the buyers.
Manufacturing bets and what the cash is for
Agility’s RoboFab plant in Salem spans 70,000 square feet and is designed for annual capacity of up to 10,000 robots. The company also runs hardware and physical AI work in Fremont, California, and has announced a 50,000-square-foot Pittsburgh expansion for software, deployment and support. Fleet management runs through Agility Arc, its cloud software.
Proceeds are earmarked for fulfilling orders, expanding deployments, scaling Digit production and advancing the robotics and physical AI stack, the company said. Existing Agility holders rolled 100% of their equity into the combined company, with a 180-day lock-up for those shares and the Churchill sponsor stake, subject to early release on stock-price triggers.
Johnson told TechCrunch the SPAC capital meets current needs but declined to say it would carry Agility to self-funding. Digit 5 prototypes are slated for CES 2027, she said, while unit economics under a robot-as-a-service pitch still hinge on throughput, uptime and placement accuracy that customers will measure against contractual gates.
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