The Latest Breaking News from Agility Robotics

Agility Robotics’ SPAC Deal Opens a Rare Door Into Humanoid AI

The CCXI-Agility Robotics SPAC merger will create the first U.S.-listed pure-play humanoid equity, valued at $2.5B, with clients including Amazon and a NVIDIA partnership.

MarketBeat · Jul 2

Agility Robotics heads to Wall Street in a $2.5B bet on staffing warehouses with humanoids

Agility Robotics, a maker of humanlike robots, is going public on Wall Street

The Independent UK · Jun 24

Agility Robotics heads to Wall Street in a $2.5 billion bet on staffing warehouses with humanoids

Agility Robotics, an AI-driven humanoid robotics for warehouse operations, plans to go public with a remarkable $2.5 billion valuation. This move signifies a noteworthy advancement for the rapidly growing humanoid robot industry. Their 'Digit' robots, optimized for monotonous manual tasks, are already deployed in various industrial environments, supported by leading…

The Economic Times · Jun 24

‘It’s the robot we were all expecting – like C3PO’: why aren’t humanoids in our homes yet?

Tesla and others are trying to infuse robots with artificial intelligence, yet their development is dogged by technical and safety challenges. But the dream of a multipurpose domestic droid lives on

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2024

Why Peggy Johnson went from Magic Leap to a humanoid robot startup

The former Microsoft exec was attracted to a hardware business that had found product-market fit.

Fortune · Aug 22, 2024

Agility Robotics’ humanoid robot has its first real job—at a Spanx factory

CEO Peggy Johnson said the robot can lift up to 50 pounds and is ideally suited for the kind of repetitive, backbreaking work that leads to injuries when done by humans.

Fortune · Jul 16, 2024

Humanoid robots are here, but they're a little awkward. Do we really need them?

Building a robot that’s both human-like and useful is a decades-old engineering dream inspired by popular science fiction

The Independent UK · Nov 5, 2023

Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses

Digit will begin its time on the floor by shifting empty tote boxes amid concerns humans will be shifted out of jobs

The Guardian - US · Oct 19, 2023

No, this robot didn't collapse from exhaustion after 'a long day's work'

A video with nearly 5 million views on Twitter shows a robot collapsing to the ground after putting away some boxes. According to those who shared the post, the robot collapsed after a "long day's work" which caused it to deactivate itself from exhaustion. However, the scene actually took place…

France 24 · May 9, 2023

Humanoid robots are coming to a warehouse near you

A new robot named Digit can lift and move boxes alongside humans.

Axios · Mar 29, 2023