Agility Robotics Company Profile: History, Digit, Customers, Leadership and SPAC Listing

Oct 11

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Updated: 7 days ago

Agility Robotics makes Digit, a humanoid robot that works in warehouses and factories, and calls itself the first company to deploy humanoids commercially. In June 2026 it announced a plan to go public through a merger that values it at USD 2.5 billion. This profile sets out its history, product, customers, leadership and listing plan.

Agility Robotics at a Glance

Fact	Detail
Company	Agility Robotics; rebranded as Agility in March 2026
Founded	2015, as a spin-off from Oregon State University
Founders	Jonathan Hurst, Damion Shelton and Mikhail Jones
Headquarters	Salem, Oregon, USA
Main product	Digit humanoid robot
Deployments	Nine customer facilities and more than 65,000 operating hours, as of June 2026
Order backlog	More than USD 300 million in multi-year orders
Stock listing	Planned, under the ticker AGLT, through a merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI
Chief Executive Officer	Peggy Johnson

Company History

Agility grew out of the Dynamic Robotics Lab at Oregon State University, where Jonathan Hurst studied legged locomotion. Its first product was Cassie, a pair of robot legs with no upper body, sold to research labs from 2016; Cassie later set a Guinness World Record for the 100-meter run by a bipedal robot. Digit added a torso, arms and perception in 2017, and Ford became the first customer for a version of it, to explore last-mile delivery.

The company then turned to logistics. The current Digit was shown in 2023, the year Agility announced RoboFab, its humanoid robot factory in Salem, and partnerships with Amazon and GXO Logistics. In 2024 GXO signed what the companies called the first robots-as-a-service contract for humanoids, at a Spanx facility near Atlanta.

Key milestones

2015: Founded.
2016: Cassie sold to research labs.
2017: Digit released.
2020: Ford named first customer for Digit.
2023: Current Digit shown; RoboFab announced; Amazon and GXO partnerships.
2024: First humanoid robots-as-a-service contract, with GXO.
March 2026: Rebrand as Agility.
June 2026: Merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI announced.

Product and Customers

Digit is a general-purpose humanoid that handles totes and similar loads. The latest generation, Digit 5, is described by the company as its first cooperatively safe humanoid, meaning it is designed to work around people.

Customer	Note
GXO Logistics	Contract logistics provider; first robots-as-a-service agreement
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada	Automotive manufacturing
Schaeffler	Industrial and automotive supplier, and an investor
Mercado Libre	E-commerce logistics
Amazon	Partner since 2023 and an investor

Agility reports a pipeline of more than 30 customers for Digit 5.

The SPAC Deal

Item	Detail
Announced	June 2026
Partner	Churchill Capital Corp XI, a special purpose acquisition company
Valuation	USD 2.5 billion pre-money equity value
Gross proceeds	More than USD 620 million, assuming no redemptions
Of which trust account	USD 420 million
Of which private placement	About USD 200 million at USD 10 per share, led by Foxconn
Planned ticker	AGLT

The money is intended to fulfil existing orders, expand deployments and scale production of Digit 5. Strategic backers named in the announcement are DCVC, NVIDIA, Amazon, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Schaeffler, Foxconn, Abico and Playground Global. The company has not disclosed revenue. Readers should check whether the merger has closed before treating the shares as trading.

Note: this section is general information, not investment advice.

Leadership

Name	Role
Peggy Johnson	Chief Executive Officer
Jonathan Hurst	Co-founder and Chief Robot Officer
Damion Shelton	Co-founder and Chairman of the Board
Pras Velagapudi	Chief Technology Officer
Daniel Diez	Chief Business Officer
Jennifer Hunter	Chief Operating Officer
Michael Beer	Chief Financial Officer
Marco Marroquin	Chief Hardware Officer
Ana Lang	Chief Legal and People Officer

Strengths and Challenges

Strengths

Humanoids already working in customer facilities.
A backlog above USD 300 million and its own factory.
Strategic investors that are also customers or suppliers.

Challenges

No disclosed revenue, and a backlog subject to contractual milestones.
Heavily funded competitors in humanoid robots.
SPAC proceeds that depend on redemptions.

Current Catalogue Coverage

Catalogue checked on 15 October 2026: 1 associated product records. The links below are representative entries, rather than a claim that every historical model is currently available.

Agility Robotics Digit