Agility Robotics began trading on the Nasdaq on Nov. 5 after completing a special purpose acquisition company merger, becoming the first dedicated humanoid-robot developer to list in the United States, Ars Technica and TechCrunch reported^1,2,3.

The Salem, Oregon, company, spun out of Oregon State University in 2015, has deployed Digit robots in warehouses and factories and is using the listing to disclose how it plans to rent or sell humanoids for repetitive manual work^1,2.

Techmeme said the shares trade under the ticker AGLT³. TechCrunch said the reverse merger is expected to raise $465 million from retail investors and private funding².

Ars, citing Agility’s Sept. 4 S-4 registration statement, said a robots-as-a-service customer would pay about $25,000 to deploy each robot plus $8,500 a month for software and maintenance¹. Buying the hardware would cost about $200,000 plus $20,000 to deploy, with an annual software and maintenance fee of about $36,000¹.

Those prices are tied to Digit 5, which Ars said is due starting in 2027, can lift 50-pound loads, work more than 20 hours in a 24-hour period, and uses a Nyobolt battery pack that Agility said can add 90 minutes of runtime with a nine-minute charge¹.

TechCrunch said Digit robots already work for nine customers, including Schaeffler, GXO, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada and Mercado Libre, moving totes including more than 100,000 at a GXO site². Ars said GXO, Agility’s first customer, has said it will expand beyond Georgia into North Carolina and Tennessee¹.

CEO Peggy Johnson told TechCrunch the company stayed with repetitive jobs that are hard to staff². “You don’t see a lot of dancing robots or backflipping robots from Agility,” she said².

Johnson said Agility has $300 million in planned contracts from 30 customers for Digit 5, which can work around people rather than only in isolated cells, and that the order book helped drive the public listing; she did not name those customers². Ars said the S-4’s subscription math used an unidentified $300 million order for 1,000 Digit 5 robots over three years, contingent on milestones and specifications¹.

The two outlets cited different loss figures from different periods. Ars said Agility reported $1.8 million in 2025 revenue against a $140 million operating loss and expects losses for the foreseeable future¹. TechCrunch said first-half 2026 revenue was $174,000, mostly from related parties, against a $362 million loss in that stretch².

Ars said Agility estimated Digit 5’s bill of materials at $150,000, falling to $75,000 at 1,000 robots a year and $30,000 at 10,000, with a five-year useful life, and that RoboFab in Oregon is the production site¹. TechCrunch said Johnson would not share Digit 5 production targets but that the plant has been described as able to make 10,000 robots a year².

CFO Michael Beer told investors on Oct. 6 that a subscription could replace $200,000 in annual labor with $100,000 in robot cost, Ars reported¹. TechCrunch said Agility pitches about $100,000 a year in savings under robot-as-a-service². Prospective customers must spend $500,000 for an on-site proof of concept, TechCrunch said, with four such customers signed as of May 2026².

Co-founder Jonathan Hurst told Ars Digit 5 is not a home robot. “Digit 5 is not going to walk into your living room and do dishes and stuff like that,” he said¹. What remains unclear is how fast Digit 5 will meet contract specs, how much of the $300 million pipeline converts, and whether the new capital is enough for Agility to become self-sustaining^1,2.