Agility closes SPAC merger as Digit 5 orders await milestones

Agility Robotics, founded by Jonathan Hurst, Damion Shelton and Mikhail Jones, closed its Churchill XI merger on November 4th after reporting $1.782M in 2025 sales and more than $300M in milestone-dependent Digit 5 orders.

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Primary source: TechCrunch

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Agility's filings give investors a rare disclosed test of humanoid economics: $1.782 million in 2025 sales and $174,000 in first-half 2026 sales against more than $300 million in potential Digit 5 value that depends on milestones, shipments and repeat warehouse deployments.

Rows of humanoid robots stand in a warehouse as a worker works at a bench beneath an AGILITY sign.

Jonathan Hurst, Damion Shelton and Mikhail Jones founded Agility Robotics as an Oregon State University spinout in 2015 to turn legged-locomotion research into robots that could work in buildings designed for people. Eleven years later, the test facing chief executive Peggy Johnson is commercial rather than technical: Agility's filings pair very small current sales with a much larger, milestone-dependent Digit 5 order claim.…

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