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Agility Robotics Opens Fremont Facility to Train Digit Humanoids for Customer Sites
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Agility Robotics has opened a 60,000-square-foot facility in Fremont, California, where its Digit humanoid will learn new skills in environments similar to those it will experience in the field, TechCrunch reported on July 17, 2026. The site is just up the highway from the factory where Tesla is expected to start manufacturing its Optimus robots this year, according to TechCrunch.
Where Digit is working
TechCrunch reported that Digit is already generating revenue carrying totes and bins in manufacturing and warehouse settings for customers including Amazon, GXO, Schaeffler and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada. Digit robots have moved 100,000 totes at a GXO logistics facility, according to the same report. The company says it has secured $300 million in contract orders for its robots, and TechCrunch reported that more than 30 customers are in talks with Agility about deploying Digit.
In February 2026, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada signed a commercial robots-as-a-service agreement to deploy seven Digit units at its operations in Woodstock, Ontario, after a pilot, Robotics 24/7 reported. Agility's June merger announcement said Digit had logged more than 65,000 operating hours across nine customer facilities, according to Robotics 24/7, which listed Schaeffler, GXO, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada and Mercado Libre as customers.
Safety and the next Digit
Agility expects to unveil version 5 of Digit this fall, and TechCrunch reported that it will be able to sense humans and won't need to be kept in a robot-only zone.
"We have commercialized. We now know what it takes to walk into these facilities and meet their safety bars, their regulatory bars, compliance, plug into their IT infrastructure, plug into their warehouse management system," CEO Peggy Johnson told TechCrunch.
Co-founder Jonathan Hurst described a staged path for the robot, starting with bins and totes, then picking and kitting, and later cardboard handling and loading and unloading tractor trailers, according to TechCrunch.
Path to the public markets
Agility announced in June that it plans to go public through a merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI at a $2.5 billion pre-money equity value, Robotics 24/7 reported. According to that report, the deal is expected to provide more than $620 million in gross proceeds, including $420 million from the Churchill XI trust account assuming no redemptions and about $200 million from a PIPE financing led by Foxconn, and the combined company is expected to trade under the ticker AGLT. TechCrunch wrote that the reverse merger is expected to make Agility the first pure-play humanoid robot company on the public markets later this year.