Agility Robotics to Go Public via $2.5B SPAC Merger, Bringing Humanoid Robots to Warehouses
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Kate Seamons
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Agility Robotics is going public via a SPAC merger with Churchill Capital Group, valuing the company at $2.5 billion. The company's humanoid robot, Digit, is described as the first commercially operational humanoid robot employed in warehouse and industrial facilities, designed specifically for tasks like picking up and moving heavy bins and totes.
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· 2 pulledDesigned to pick up and move heavy bins and totes, Agility's product line, called Digit, is the 'first humanoid robot employed and commercially operational in warehouse and industrial facilities'
Michael Klein, co-founder and chairman of Churchill Capital Group, which runs the special-purpose acquisition company that intends to merge with Agility by the end of the year
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