Agility Robotics plans to go public via SPAC in a $2.5B deal
The transaction is expected to generate more than $620 million in proceeds, including about $200 million from a group of new and existing institutional investors, the company said. Agility is best known for Digit, a bipedal robot that is being used across nine customer sites, including with Schaeffler, GXO, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, and Mercado Libre. The company has enjoyed backing from high-profile tech companies and funds like Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, DCVC.
- ▪The transaction is expected to generate more than $620 million in proceeds, including about $200 million from a group of new and existing institutional investors, the company said.
- ▪Agility is best known for Digit, a bipedal robot that is being used across nine customer sites, including with Schaeffler, GXO, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, and Mercado Libre.
- ▪The company has enjoyed backing from high-profile tech companies and funds like Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, DCVC.
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In Brief Posted: 9:48 AM PDT · June 24, 2026 Kirsten Korosec Agility Robotics plans to go public via SPAC in a $2.5B deal Agility Robotics, the humanoid robotics startup that spun out of Oregon State University in 2015, plans to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Churchill Capital Corp XI in a deal that values the company at roughly $2.5 billion. The transaction is expected to generate more than $620 million in proceeds, including about $200 million from a group of new and existing institutional investors, the company said. Agility is best known for Digit, a bipedal robot that is being used across nine customer sites, including with Schaeffler, GXO, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, and Mercado Libre.
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