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June 26, 2026

Oregon firm goes public in $2.5B bet on staffing warehouses with robots

By MATT O'BRIEN
AP Technology Writer

A maker of humanlike robots that carry totes around warehouses is aiming to go public on Wall Street in a test of whether there is a market for putting AI-powered humanoid machines to work.

Agility Robotics, based in Salem, Oregon, announced Wednesday a planned merger with an investment firm that will value the company at $2.5 billion as it becomes the first publicly traded company entirely devoted to building and selling humanoids.


 
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