Agility Robotics Adds 50,000 Sq Ft Pittsburgh Site for Digit Growth

What the new Pittsburgh site will do

According to Agility Robotics, the new facility will add approximately 35,000 square feet to its existing Pittsburgh footprint. The company says this will increase its capacity to deploy, monitor, service and continuously improve its Digit robot as the customer base grows.

The site will bring together teams responsible for supporting Digit fleets in customer operations, deploying new robots and workflows, validating customer applications, developing and validating new skills, and handling complex robot service and repair. Dedicated space will let Agility and its customers validate workflows through proof-of-technology evaluations, while engineers develop and test new Digit skills in both simulation and physical environments.

Pittsburgh will also host Agility's East Coast service center. It will complement the existing service capabilities at RoboFab in Salem, Oregon.

Customer momentum behind the expansion

Agility says Digit is already operating with GXO, Schaeffler and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada. The company is adding four more customers in industries including automotive, consumer goods and agriculture. Earlier in the same week it announced a pilot with AGCO, a global agricultural machinery and precision agriculture company.

Agility also says it has secured more than $300 million in multi-year orders for Digit 5, subject to satisfaction of certain contractual milestones.

CEO Peggy Johnson framed the move as an infrastructure question. "Scaling humanoid robotics means building the infrastructure to support robots throughout their entire working life," she said. CTO Pras Velagapudi said that "real-world deployments are one of our most important sources of learning" and that putting software and AI development next to deployment and support teams lets the company learn faster from what Digit does in customer environments.

Hiring, timing and political backing

Agility plans to hire software engineers, AI engineers, service technicians, deployment specialists and team leaders in Pittsburgh. The company expects first employee access to the new facility by the end of the year.

The announcement drew statements from Pennsylvania officials. Senator Dave McCormick (R-PA) and Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) both welcomed the investment. Pittsburgh Mayor Corey O'Connor said he was glad Agility chose "to nearly triple their existing footprint here in the city."

Where Pittsburgh fits in Agility's footprint and public listing plans

Agility describes Pittsburgh as one part of a broader U.S. setup. RoboFab in Salem, Oregon, is its manufacturing and operations center, and the Fremont, California, facility focuses on hardware and physical AI development. Pittsburgh will handle software and AI and act as a hub for customer deployments and service.

The company is also preparing to go public through a previously announced business combination with Churchill Capital Corp XI (Nasdaq: CCXI). It expects the deal to close in the fourth quarter of 2026, after which the combined company would operate as Agility Robotics and is expected to trade on Nasdaq under the ticker "AGLT."

What it means for customers and the market

For current and prospective Digit customers, the move signals that Agility is putting more service, deployment and software capacity closer to the East Coast. The company says that keeping skill development near the teams supporting robots in the field should help it feed real-world experience back into new capabilities. The scale of the investment, together with the reported orders and new customers, shows how Agility is positioning itself to support commercial humanoid deployments as demand grows.