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Chris Paxton
AI Innovation Lead, Agility Robotics
Company

Based in
Pittsburgh, PA
Stage
Growth
Type
Operator
Chris Paxton is AI Innovation Lead at Agility Robotics, maker of the Digit humanoid robot. He joined in 2025 after leading embodied AI work at Hello Robot and research scientist roles at Meta and NVIDIA, where he worked on task and motion planning and neural approaches to robot planning. He holds a PhD in computer science from Johns Hopkins University, where his research focused on giving robots common sense reasoning for working alongside people, and a bachelor's in computer science from the University of Maryland.
Company

Agility Robotics
Agility Robotics builds and deploys Digit, a general purpose humanoid robot, for warehouse and factory automation.
Founded
2015
Raised
$641M
Stage
Series C
HQ
Salem, OR
Investors
AII
Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund
D
DCVC
PG
Playground Global
S
Schaeffler
S
Sony
Investor data via Harmonic
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Jul 14, 2026
Agility Robotics
Agility Robotics and Churchill Capital Corp XI announce confidential submission of draft registration statement on Form S-4
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Jul 23, 2026
Agility Robotics
Agility Robotics strengthens executive leadership team with appointment of Michael Beer as Chief Financial Officer
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