Agility Robotics is set to go public through a $2.5 billion SPAC deal, becoming the first pure-play humanoid robotics company listed in the United States.

The development comes as Agility prepares to launch its next-generation Digit v5 collaborative robot.

The listing is expected to generate over $620 million in funding for product development, research, and expansion, while providing investors with the first audited financial benchmark for the rapidly growing humanoid robotics sector.

Recently, Agility became the first firm to integrate NVIDIA’s new Halos safety platform into its Digit humanoid robot, enhancing safe human-robot collaboration in warehouses, factories, and logistics operations.

Digit expands reach

Agility Robotics is advancing humanoid automation through its Digit robot, which is now deployed in real-world manufacturing, distribution, and logistics environments with major enterprises including Schaeffler, GXO, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, and Mercado Libre.

The firm claims that across nine customer facilities, Digit has accumulated more than 65,000 operational hours, providing the company with extensive real-world data to refine its technology and accelerate development.

Agility is now preparing for the commercial launch of Digit v5, its next-generation humanoid robot. The new model is designed as what the company describes as the world’s first “cooperatively safe” humanoid, enabling closer collaboration between robots and human workers in industrial settings.

Agility Robotics plans to enhance the safety capabilities of its Digit humanoid robot by integrating NVIDIA’s IGX Thor industrial computing platform and Halos Core safety software. The technologies will be incorporated into Digit’s existing human-detection and safety systems to support safer operation alongside workers in warehouses and manufacturing facilities.

Agility will also participate in NVIDIA’s Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab, where Digit’s software, computing architecture, and cybersecurity protections will be evaluated against industry safety standards. The effort aims to support large-scale, safety-certified deployment of humanoid robots.

Agility claims to have already secured more than $300 million in multi-year orders for the platform and is working with a pipeline of more than 30 potential customers as enterprises explore large-scale humanoid deployment.

Embodied AI expands

At the core of Agility’s strategy is a data-driven approach to embodied AI. Every deployment generates proprietary operational data that helps improve Digit’s perception, decision-making, mobility, and task execution capabilities.

According to Agility, the continuous feedback loop enables the robot to learn from real production environments, enhancing reliability, expanding the range of tasks it can perform, and accelerating the development of new autonomous capabilities. Agility says this growing data flywheel strengthens its AI platform while increasing value for enterprise customers.

The company is also expanding its Customer Acceleration Program, which allows enterprises to evaluate humanoid robots and prepare for large-scale deployment. The initiative is helping Agility build a pipeline of future applications across multiple industries while gathering additional operational insights to improve system performance.

“As adoption accelerates, we believe Agility is positioned to address a market opportunity across manufacturing, distribution, and logistics environments in the United States that is estimated by management to be approximately $1 trillion,” said Peggy Johnson, CEO of Agility Robotics, in a statement.

Agility has developed the infrastructure needed to support large-scale deployment of humanoid robots across enterprise environments. At the center of this ecosystem is Agility Arc, a cloud-based automation platform that integrates Digit robots into customer operations, enabling deployment, fleet management, orchestration, and performance monitoring across multiple sites.

To meet growing demand, the company has also established RoboFab, its dedicated humanoid robot manufacturing facility capable of producing up to 10,000 units annually. Agility further strengthens its operations through ownership of key hardware technologies and a domestic supply chain, with approximately 75 percent of Digit’s components sourced within the US.

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