Agility gives U.S. investors a pure humanoid-robot stock

Agility Robotics began trading on Nasdaq under AGLT after merging with a SPAC, becoming what it says is the first U.S.-listed company focused solely on humanoid robots. Its Digit machines are built for repetitive jobs in warehouses and factories, so the listing is less a wager on sci-fi home robots than on whether a human-shaped machine can work reliably in existing industrial spaces. The deal and related financing supplied roughly $465 million before expenses, money Agility needs to build and deploy at scale. That makes the debut a revealing test for the sector: Agility says it has customer deployments and more than $300 million in multiyear orders, but it reported just $174,000 in first-half revenue and a $362 million loss.