Agility company profile
Agility, formerly Agility Robotics, builds biped robots for repetitive material-handling work in warehouses, distribution centers and industrial facilities. Its core focus is putting humanoid robots into existing operations without rebuilding the workplace around them.
Facts
- Segment: Humanoid
- Formerly: Agility Robotics
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2015
- Website: https://agilityrobotics.com
Profile sections
- Summary
- Market context
- Products
- Facts
- Funding
- Investors
- Context / Market Position
- Events
- Operations / Deployments
- Team
- Supply chain relationships
- Relationships
- Context tags
- Customers and deployments
- Record / Articles
- Sources
Summary
Agility, formerly Agility Robotics, builds biped robots for repetitive material-handling work in warehouses, distribution centers and industrial facilities. Its core focus is putting humanoid robots into existing operations without rebuilding the workplace around them.
Market context
One of the first humanoid robots deployed in live warehouse environments. Digit has been tested in production settings with companies like Amazon and GXO Logistics, handling large volumes of repetitive tasks. Digit Independent robotics company (no parent entity).
- Capability: Bipedal robotic locomotion in human-built environments Autonomous + semi-autonomous material handling Object manipulation (tote handling, parcel movement) Integration into warehouse and logistics workflows
- Strategic position: Embodied AI robotics company focused on logistics deployment, specifically warehouse automation using bipedal systems. Positioned as a humanoid-adjacent platform targeting real-world commercial envir…
Facts
- Website: https://agilityrobotics.com
- HQ: Salem, United States
- Founded: 2015
- Segment: Humanoid
- Funding total: $578M
- Known funding rounds: 5
- Latest funding date: 2025-09-15
Funding
- 2025-09-15 - $792K - Agility Robotics raises $792K funding round - source: acquinox.capital
- 2024-11-20 - Strategic investment - Schaeffler and Agility Robotics announce strategic investment and agreement with motion technology company - source: agilityrobotics.com
- 2024-11-13 - Strategic investment - Schaeffler invests in Agility Robotics and plans to deploy humanoids globally - source: agilityrobotics.com
- 2022-04-22 - $150M - Agility Robotics raises $150 million in new funding - source: freightwaves.com
- 2020-10-15 - Funding round - $20M - Agility Robotics raises $20M funding round - source: onami.us
Investors
- DCVC - Lead - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2020-10-15 - latest 2022-04-22
- Playground Global - Lead - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2020-10-15 - latest 2022-04-22
- Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund - Participant - Corporate / Cvc - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2022-04-22
- Industrial Technology Investment Corporation - Participant - Strategic Industrial - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2020-10-15
- MFV Partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2020-10-15
- Safar Partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2020-10-15
- Sony Innovation Fund - Participant - Corporate / Cvc - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2020-10-15
- TDK Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2020-10-15
Warehouse humanoid robot company
Agility Robotics develops Digit, a bipedal humanoid robot designed for logistics work and facility-floor material movement.
- Target environment: Warehouses, distribution centres, logistics facilities, manufacturing sites and human-scale material-handling environments.
- Deployment model: Humanoid robot deployment through Digit robots, Arc workflow controls, service support and warehouse automation integration.
- Customer context: Logistics operators, manufacturers, retailers, 3PLs and warehouse teams seeking labour support for repetitive material handling.
- Workflow context: Tote movement, AMR unloading, conveyor loading, material handling, facility-floor navigation and warehouse task execution.
- Commercial maturity: Commercial deployment stage, with Digit operating in full-time logistics deployment and public throughput milestones.
- Market position: Humanoid robot builder focused on warehouse labour automation and facility-floor logistics.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on robot uptime, integration with warehouse systems, task speed, safety, fleet support and customer ROI.
- Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes logistics humanoids, warehouse robotics, AMR-connected automation and general-purpose robot labour.
- Source confidence: high
Events
- 2026-06-24 - Market Signal - Agility Robotics announces SPAC merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI - The transaction values Agility Robotics at about $2.5 billion and is expected to list the combined company under ticke…
- 2026-06-22 - Product Launch - NVIDIA announces Halos for Robotics safety system for physical AI - Halos for Robotics extends NVIDIA Halos from autonomous-vehicle safety into robotics and physical AI.
- 2026-03-05 - Market Signal - Agility Robotics rebrands to Agility - • Agility Robotics announced its rebrand to Agility on March 5, 2026.
- 2026-02-19 - Partnership - Agility Robotics signs commercial deployment agreement with Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada for Digit - Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada signed a Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) agreement with A…
- 2026-02-14 - Demonstration - Agility demonstrates Digit's advanced material handling capabilities - Digit uses two grippers to handle heavy cinder blocks with precision and smoothness.
- 2025-12-10 - Partnership - Mercado Libre and Agility Robotics announce commercial agreement to deploy Digit humanoid robots - Mercado Libre signed a commercial agreement with Agility Robotics to deploy Digit humanoid ro…
- 2025-11-24 - Regulatory - Agility Robotics' Digit Passes OSHA-Recognized NRTL Safety Inspection - Digit received OSHA-recognized Nationally Recognized Test Lab (NRTL) approval at a customer’s commercial production line.
- 2025-09-15 - Funding - Agility Robotics raises $792K funding round - Agility Robotics: Investor Insights Agility Robotics sets itself apart through a focus on safe, practical, and scalable humanoid robotics
- 2025-06-02 - Research Publication - Dynamic subgoal pursuit paper validates humanoid navigation using Digit simulation - The paper proposes a hierarchical navigation framework combining a reinforcement-learning subgoal…
- 2025-05-19 - Partnership - NVIDIA powers humanoid robot industry with Isaac GR00T platform adopted by Agility, Boston Dynamics, Fourier and others - NVIDIA released Isaac GR00T N foundation models enabling humanoid robo…
- 2025-04-14 - Research Publication - PPF paper improves Digit locomotion with model-assumption-based regularization - PPF combines controller imitation, reinforcement-learning fine-tuning, and model-assumption-based regu…
- 2024-11-20 - Partnership - Schaeffler and Agility Robotics announce strategic investment and agreement with motion technology company - Schaeffler made a minority investment in Agility Robotics and plans to purchase hum…
- 2024-11-13 - Partnership - Schaeffler invests in Agility Robotics and plans to deploy humanoids globally - Schaeffler intends to integrate Agility's Digit robots across its 100 global plants by 2030.
- 2024-10-16 - Partnership - Tompkins Solutions partners with Agility Robotics on warehouse automation - Tompkins Solutions announced a strategic partnership with Agility Robotics to integrate Digit into warehouse automat…
- 2024-10-04 - Research Publication - Challenging-terrain locomotion paper trains Digit for real-world outdoor walking - The paper presents a transformer-based learning approach for blind humanoid locomotion over rough, d…
- 2024-10-03 - Deployment - Digit deployed at GXO under long-term commercial humanoid RaaS agreement - Agility states Digit's deployment into a long-term, commercially significant role marks the first realization of this…
- 2024-09-01 - Partnership - Agility Robotics partners with Ricoh USA to support deployment and service of Digit robots - Agility Robotics partnered with Ricoh USA to provide deployment, service, and support infrastructur…
- 2024-08-16 - Research Publication - Digit system-identification paper improves constrained-robot model tracking - The paper introduces an iterative least-squares system-identification approach for constrained robots suc…
- 2024-06-27 - Deployment - Agility Robotics' Digit moves over 10,000 orders at SPANX facility - Digit has moved over 10,000 orders at the SPANX facility, indicating successful deployment at scale.
- 2024-06-27 - Partnership - GXO signs multi-year commercial deployment agreement with Agility Robotics - GXO signed a multi-year agreement with Agility Robotics after a 2023 pilot, described as a first formal commercial…
- 2024-06-25 - Research Publication - Multi-biped payload-transport paper demonstrates coordinated Cassie teams - The paper trains a decentralized controller for payload transport using multiple rigidly attached biped rob…
- 2024-04-09 - Award - Agility Robotics' Digit Wins Robot of the Year Award - • Agility Robotics' humanoid robot, Digit, was awarded the inaugural Robot of the Year by the RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards.
- 2024-04-04 - Partnership - Agility Robotics announces partnership with Manhattan Associates - This collaboration aims to enhance supply chain commerce solutions using advanced robotics technology.
- 2024-04-04 - Partnership - Agility Robotics partners with Manhattan Associates - • Agility Robotics partnered with Manhattan Associates to integrate its Digit robot and Agility Arc platform with Manhattan's Active Wareh…
Operations / Deployments
- 2026-02-19 - Partnership - Agility Robotics signs commercial deployment agreement with Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada for Digit - Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada signed a Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) agreement with A…
- 2025-12-10 - Partnership - Mercado Libre and Agility Robotics announce commercial agreement to deploy Digit humanoid robots - Mercado Libre signed a commercial agreement with Agility Robotics to deploy Digit humanoid ro…
- 2024-11-13 - Partnership - Schaeffler invests in Agility Robotics and plans to deploy humanoids globally - Schaeffler intends to integrate Agility's Digit robots across its 100 global plants by 2030.
- 2024-10-03 - Deployment - Digit deployed at GXO under long-term commercial humanoid RaaS agreement - Agility states Digit's deployment into a long-term, commercially significant role marks the first realization of this…
- 2024-06-27 - Partnership - GXO signs multi-year commercial deployment agreement with Agility Robotics - GXO signed a multi-year agreement with Agility Robotics after a 2023 pilot, described as a first formal commercial…
- 2023-09-18 - Facility - Agility Robotics Opens World's First Humanoid Robot Factory in Oregon - Agility Robotics has opened RoboFab, a 70,000-square-foot facility in Salem, Oregon, dedicated to manufacturing humanoid ro…
- 2023-09-18 - Production Milestone - Agility Robotics opens RoboFab, the first factory dedicated to humanoid robot production - Agility Robotics announced RoboFab, a purpose-built manufacturing facility for humanoid robo…
Team
- Peggy Johnson - CEO - Her appointment frames Agility current phase around commercial scaling and deployment rather than early platform development.
- Jonathan Hurst - Co-Founder & Chief Robot Officer
- Pras Velagapudi - Chief Technology Officer
Supply chain relationships
- Zion Solutions Group - Warehouse systems integration partner - Zion Solutions Group partnered with Agility Robotics to integrate Digit and Agility Arc into warehouse solutions and designs.
- NVIDIA - integration - NVIDIA powers Agility Robotics humanoid robot development with Isaac platform and GR00T models for physical AI.
- NVIDIA - Platform / ecosystem (ex-supply row) - NVIDIA public materials reference Agility Robotics in Isaac/GR00T robotics platform and foundation-model ecosystem work.
Relationships
- Manhattan Associates - partner - Agility Robotics and Manhattan Associates partner to bring AI-powered humanoid robots into warehouse fulfillment operations.
- Mercado Libre - Deployment partner - Agility Robotics and Mercado Libre commercial agreement to deploy Digit in fulfillment (San Antonio first; Latin America scope).
- Tompkins Solutions - integration - Tompkins Solutions partnered with Agility Robotics to bring humanoid robot automation into customer warehouse fulfillment operations.
- Schaeffler AG - investor - Schaeffler Group made a strategic investment in Agility Robotics and partnered on motion technology for humanoid robot actuation.
- Ricoh USA - integration - Ricoh USA partnered with Agility Robotics to provide deployment support and field services for Digit humanoid robot installations.
- Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) - fleet_integration - Digit and MiR AMRs are shown as integrated or compatible in warehouse automation workflows; this is a fleet/workflow integration relationship, not a supplier-to-custo…
- Google DeepMind - Gemini Robotics collaboration - Google DeepMind Gemini Robotics program; public materials reference Agility among trusted testers / model collaboration.
- Foxconn - PIPE lead investor - Foxconn led the PIPE portion of Agility Robotics’ announced SPAC merger financing with Churchill Capital Corp XI.
Context tags
- Bipedal locomotion - Capability - Digit demonstrated bipedal walking and stair navigation
- Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - Paid customer deployments including Spanx and GXO
- Humanoid industrial builder - Peer Group - Core peer group: Digit humanoid for logistics
- Industrial task execution - Workflow - Physical task execution in logistics environments
- Warehouse material handling - Workflow - Digit deployed for warehouse material handling workflows
- Autonomous navigation - Capability - Warehouse navigation and obstacle handling disclosed
- Robot OEM - Stack Layer - Builds complete Digit humanoid robot system
- Warehouses - Customer Environment - Digit primarily deployed in warehouse environments
Customers and deployments
- Named Commercial Humanoid Site Count - 1 named commercial deployment - 2026-02-19 - Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada - automotive manufacturing logistics - Agility announced a commercial agreement with Toyota Motor Man…
- Estimated 2025 Humanoid Shipments - about 150 robots shipped in 2025 - 2026-01-09 - Agility Robotics appears in Omdia/Rest of World 2025 humanoid shipment estimates at about 150 robots shipped in 2025. This row is a mar…
- Totes Moved - over 100,000 totes - 2025-11-20 - GXO - logistics fulfillment - Agility reported Digit moved more than 100,000 totes at GXO’s Flowery Branch facility. - source posture: Company Disclosed
- Reported Cumulative Tote Moves - more than 100,000 totes moved - 2025-11-20 - GXO Logistics - warehouse logistics - Agility says Digit moved more than 100,000 totes at GXO's Flowery Branch facility. The metric measures…
- Reported Commercial Sites - 1 named commercial site - 2024-10-03 - GXO Logistics - warehouse logistics - Agility says Digit entered commercial operations at a GXO facility near Atlanta under a multi-year Robots-as-a-Ser…
- Orders Moved - more than 10,000 orders - 2024-06-27 - SPANX / GXO Logistics - warehouse order fulfillment - Digit moved more than 10,000 orders at a SPANX facility operated with GXO Logistics under a humanoid RaaS deplo…
- Named Pilot Sites - 1 named pilot site - 2023-10-18 - Amazon - warehouse logistics - Amazon began testing Agility Robotics' Digit for warehouse tote-handling work in 2023. The public reporting supports pilot status, not…
- Production Milestone - 1 source-backed production milestone - 2023-09-20 - Agility Robotics opens RoboFab humanoid manufacturing facility - source posture: Third Party Reported
- Planned Annual Capacity Robots - more than 10,000 robots/year - 2023-09-18 - RoboFab - humanoid robot manufacturing - Agility Robotics identifies RoboFab in Salem, Oregon as a production site for Digit, with stated capa…
- Deployment Event - 1 source-backed deployment event - 2020-07-10 - Agility Robotics announces Ford as commercial launch customer - source posture: Third Party Reported
Record / Articles
- 2026-06-24 - Agility's SPAC Is the Capital-Stack Side of the Same Story - Agility Robotics is reportedly going public through a SPAC merger valuing it at $2.5B, with Foxconn leading the PIPE. - Korthos: /research/agilit…
- 2026-06-22 - The Humanoid Bottleneck Is Leaving the Cage - NVIDIA's Halos launch puts safety infrastructure around physical AI deployment. Agility's Digit is the first humanoid in the system, and the reason why matters…
- 2026-05-29 - Agility and the U.S.-Built Humanoid Thesis - Agility is pairing commercial deployments with RoboFab, domestic assembly, U.S.-sourced components, safety certification, and Arc integration software in an atte…
- 2026-04-21 - Why Schaeffler keeps showing up in humanoid robotics - Schaeffler is building across supply, co-development, research, and deployment in humanoids. - Korthos: /research/why-schaeffler-keeps-showing-up-in-hu…
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