Agility Robotics 登陆纳斯达克，成为美国首家上市的人形机器人公司
Agility Robotics' Nasdaq debut invites scrutiny of humanoid robot market
Agility Robotics 于 11 月 5 日在纳斯达克上市，成为美国首家公开交易的人形机器人专门开发商。其证券文件坦承人形机器人在规模化商业落地方面尚未被验证；公司此前在 2024 年率先实现人形机器人在客户仓库的全职商用部署，联合创始人 Jonathan Hurst 表示以接近人力成本的费率提供机器人即服务，可让客户第一天就获得投资回报。
Humanoid robots remain unproven at scale and have not yet achieved widespread commercialization, compared with industrial robots that have decades of proven track records in warehouses and factories. That frank acknowledgment is among the risks outlined in a securities filing by Agility Robotics—the first dedicated developer of humanoid robots to become a publicly traded company in the United States.
The robotics company, headquartered in Salem, Oregon, previously became the first to achieve full-time commercial deployment of humanoid robots at a customer warehouse in 2024. Now, Agility’s public listing on the Nasdaq stock exchange as of November 5 has come with financial disclosures detailing how the company plans to build a business around renting out or selling humanoid robots to perform manual labor.
“When we are doing robots as a service, it is much lower risk for customers to use it because they are getting a return on investment on day one,” Jonathan Hurst, co-founder and chief robot officer at Agility Robotics, told Ars. "Because they're paying a rate that is comparable to the human labor rate, and that makes the economics pretty straightforward.”
来源：Ars Technica：AI · arstechnica.com