Agility Robotics — Digit

Agility began trading on Nasdaq as AGLT — the first US-listed pure-play humanoid robotics company — after the Churchill Capital Corp XI merger closed November 4, per Agility's release and The Robot Report. Shares opened at $11.26 above the $10 SPAC price (~$10.30 by press time); the deal delivered ~$465M gross, down from the $620M+ originally projected after redemptions: ~$164M from the trust, a ~$201M Foxconn-led PIPE and $100M raised post-announcement. CEO Peggy Johnson teased a licensing strategy for its IP library and offering Agility Arc fleet software as a standalone, hardware-agnostic product.

Churchill XI shareholders approved the $2.5B merger with over 84% of votes cast in favour, ahead of the November 4 close, per The Robot Report and Humanoids Daily.

GXO is expanding the Digit partnership to two more U.S. sites — e-commerce fulfillment operations in Statesville, North Carolina and Lebanon, Tennessee, per the companies' October 26 announcement. Deployments begin with Digit 4 in early 2027 and migrate to Digit 5 when it's commercially available. No robot counts or contract values disclosed; it builds on the Flowery Branch, Georgia operation running since the 2023 pilot turned 2024 Robots-as-a-Service agreement, which helped make Digit one of the first humanoids earning revenue in real warehouses.

Agility announced Digit 5 will standardise on NVIDIA IGX Thor for onboard compute — making NVIDIA the exclusive compute provider for the general-availability robot — with expanded NVIDIA Halos safety integration and participation in NVIDIA's Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab, per Agility's release and Unite.AI. Early access stays on track for H1 2027.

AGCO — the farm equipment maker behind Massey Ferguson and Fendt — signed a pilot to put Digit to work at its Hesston, Kansas plant from 2027, starting with sorting/stacking parts and moving totes rather than tractor assembly, per Forbes, TechSpot and Agility. No robot count or deal value disclosed; both companies frame it as taking strenuous, repetitive work off humans.

Agility is expanding its Pittsburgh presence with a new 50,000 sq ft "center of excellence" in Lawrenceville's Robotics Row — up from ~13,000 sq ft at the RIDC Chocolate Factory — to support growing customer deployments, per Agility's release and the Pittsburgh Business Times.

Agility selected Nyobolt as the ultra-fast charging battery partner for Digit 5: 90 minutes of runtime charged in 9 minutes — a 10:1 run-to-charge ratio, up from Digit 4's 2:1 — targeting more than 20 hours of work in a 24-hour day, per Agility's release. Early access with Nyobolt-equipped units is expected in H1 2027.

The SEC declared the S-4 effective for Agility's $2.5B SPAC merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI; the shareholder vote is set for November 2, 2026, with Nasdaq listing under AGLT expected to close in November, per Agility's release. At the October 6 investor day, management put Digit 5's launch bill of materials at ~$150,000 and said the $300M, 1,000-robot order unlocks tranche by tranche as each use case is proven, per Humanoids Daily.

Agility signed an MOU with FORT Robotics expanding a multi-year relationship into a formal safety partnership for Digit 5: a three-part architecture (safety pendant, on-robot communications, and the jointly developed Offboard Safety Bridge linking Digit to external plant safety systems), plus joint hardware development, regulatory compliance and deployment support, per PR Newswire and Forbes.

Three directors named for the planned post-SPAC public-company board — Merline Saintil, Derek Aberle and Pierre Gentin — joining CEO Peggy Johnson and co-founder Damion Shelton ahead of the Churchill Capital Corp XI merger, per Agility's release and securities.io.

Agility unveiled Digit 5 — its first humanoid built for "cooperatively safe" work alongside people without safety cages, per GeekWire and Agility's release. Specs: 50 lb lift, 20+ hour daily runtime on a 9-minute fast charge, with a dedicated safety controller that stops or squats when people get too close. Early access H1 2027, general availability late 2027, and the first Digit deployments planned outside North America (EU and UK, CE-marked). Ahead of the SPAC listing, Agility also announced an Analyst & Investor Day for October 6, 2026.

SEC S-4 filing reveals Agility's financials ahead of its SPAC listing: $1.8M in 2025 net sales against a $140M operating loss, Digit deployed at 9 customer sites with 65,000+ logged operating hours, and $300M+ in multi-year Digit v5 orders from a single customer, according to The Robot Report.

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