buildConfirmed3 publishers Agility showed Digit 5's specifications on September 15 and expects general availability by the end of 2027. That leaves the barrier-free safety architecture two years to produce field data for buyers weighing a 284-pound biped.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 40%
- Operator
- Operator 40%
- Investor
- Investor 20%
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives80
- Confidence55
Agility Robotics carries a going-concern warning into its $2.5 billion SPAC
The company says its Digit 5 humanoid can work safely beside people, holds more than $300 million of multiyear orders, and does not expect general availability until the end of 2027. It plans to list at $2.5 billion.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives84
- Confidence56
PlusAI goes back to the SPAC market at a quarter of its 2021 valuation
The pre-money equity value is $800m against the $3.3bn a 2021 blank-check deal agreed to, and the revenue behind it comes from licensing PlusAI's internal toolchain rather than from selling self-driving trucks.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption34
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives82
- Confidence51
Air traffic control worked an uncrewed cargo plane into Houma's helicopter pattern for a week
Elroy Air flew spare parts and water jugs out of a busy Louisiana rotorcraft field while controllers sequenced it among crewed traffic, which is a harder thing to arrange than the aircraft, and the FAA administrator put his name to it.
Reality
- Evidence54
- Adoption27
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives82
- Confidence46
Pasqal reaches Nasdaq with $140m less than its filings projected
Redemptions cut the SPAC's proceeds from about $500m to $360m. Pasqal still lands with roughly 19 times its 2025 revenue in the bank, and that cash cushion is the part of the pitch a pilot customer is actually underwriting.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives72
- Confidence52
buildOne report1 publisher Agility wants public money for the jump from nine sites to volume, and Unitree just set the price
Peggy Johnson says the SPAC still closes this fall. The order book is $300M of potential contract value, not revenue, and the trust money depends on redemptions.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives84
- Confidence58