Agility Robotics, a maker of humanlike warehouse robots, 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. The Salem, Oregon-based company’s flagship product, called Digit, is the “first humanoid robot employed and commercially operational in warehouse and industrial facilities,” said Michael Klein, co-founder and chairman of Churchill Capital Group, which runs the special-purpose acquisition company that intends to merge with Agility by the end of the year. Klein said the company has backing from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank and Foxconn. Early customers include Toyota, Schaeffler, and Mercado Libre. Agility CEO Peggy Johnson said Digit specializes in manual labor that for humans would be repetitive, dirty and prone to injury. Co-founder Jonathan Hurst said upcoming versions of Digit will be able to work alongside humans in warehouses and manufacturing facilities. Agility’s plan to merge with Churchill’s SPAC provides a quicker timeline for going public. Johnson said the company will use the capital to expand commercial deployments and scale production of its next robot model, Digit V5.