Robotics

A humanoid robot company is about to go public

By Nath Connell · 27 June 2026

Agility Robotics, the company behind the Digit warehouse robot, has announced plans to go public through a SPAC merger that values it at $2.5 billion. If it lands, Agility becomes one of the first pure-play humanoid robotics companies you can buy shares in.

The backer list is the part worth noticing: Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank and Foxconn. That's the company that runs the world's biggest warehouses, the company that makes the chips robots think with, the most aggressive tech investor on the planet, and the company that assembles most of the world's electronics. When those four are on the same cap table, they're betting the same way.

What Digit actually does

Digit is a two-legged robot built for warehouse work, moving totes and bins, the repetitive lifting-and-carrying that wears human bodies down. It's not a sci-fi android. It's a machine designed to do one boring, physically punishing category of job, and to do it on the same floors and around the same shelving people already use.

That focus is the pitch. Humanoid robotics has burned a lot of money on demos that wow on video and do nothing useful. Agility is selling the unglamorous version: a robot that earns its keep in a distribution centre.

Why it matters

A public humanoid robotics stock gives ordinary investors a way to bet on the sector, and it gives the market a price to argue about. It also raises the stakes. Public companies report numbers every quarter, and 'our robot is impressive' has to become 'our robot generates revenue.' If Agility can show that, it pulls the whole humanoid field from hype toward business. If it can't, that'll be very public too.