Agility Robotics

Agility Robotics is an American humanoid-robotics company founded in 2015 as a spinoff from Oregon State University, headquartered in Salem, Oregon. Its flagship robot, Digit, is a human-sized bipedal robot built for warehouse and factory work — moving totes, unloading trailers, and handling the repetitive material-handling tasks that cause a large share of workplace injuries.

Agility has pushed further toward real commercial deployment than most of its peers. In 2024 it signed a multi-year agreement with the logistics company GXO — the industry's first formal commercial deployment of a humanoid robot, and the first offered as Robots-as-a-Service, where customers pay for robot uptime rather than buying the hardware outright. By mid-2026 Digit robots had moved more than 100,000 totes for GXO, and Agility reported a roughly $300 million order book, with additional customers such as Amazon, Toyota, and Schaeffler either deploying Digit or in active discussions. To supply that demand, Agility opened RoboFab in Salem — described as the world's first factory purpose-built to mass-produce humanoid robots, with a nameplate capacity above ten thousand units per year — and a 60,000-square-foot training center in Fremont, California, minutes from Tesla's factory, to rehearse Digit in realistic conditions before deployment.

The company is led by CEO Peggy Johnson, previously chief executive of Magic Leap and a longtime Microsoft executive. After raising about $400 million in 2025, Agility announced in June 2026 that it would go public by merging with a special-purpose acquisition company led by the financier Michael Klein, with more than $620 million in expected proceeds and a planned Nasdaq listing under the ticker AGLT. A fifth-generation Digit, due in fall 2026, is designed to sense and work alongside people rather than behind safety cages. Johnson has been pointedly realistic about timelines, placing a capable in-home humanoid more than a decade away and keeping Agility focused on the industrial work it can deliver today.