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GXO Logistics will expand its use of Agility Robotics’ Digit humanoid robots to two more U.S. facilities, extending a warehouse automation partnership that has been operating commercially in Georgia since 2024.
Under the expanded agreement, Digit will handle repetitive material-handling work for e-commerce fulfillment in Statesville, North Carolina, and Lebanon, Tennessee. Deployments are expected to begin in early 2027 with Digit 4, followed by a transition to Digit 5 when the newer robot becomes commercially available.
The additional sites follow more than 100,000 totes moved by Digit at GXO’s Flowery Branch, Georgia, facility, the companies said. GXO is expanding an existing commercial program rather than beginning its first humanoid trial.
Connecting Mobile Robots With Conveyor Workflows
The Flowery Branch operation shows the specific warehouse job behind the expansion. Digit works alongside existing automation, transferring totes and placing them onto conveyors. Totes are the reusable containers that carry goods through many fulfillment operations.
In its original commercial deployment, GXO integrated Digit with autonomous mobile robots at a facility serving apparel company SPANX. Mobile robots transport goods through the building; Digit handles the physical transfer between those systems and the conveyor. That gives the humanoid a defined material-handling role within an automated workflow.
Agility Arc coordinates the operation. The cloud platform supports facility mapping, workflow definition, fleet management, and troubleshooting, connecting the robots’ assignments to the customer’s operation. The deployment combines physical handling with software that manages how work passes between machines.
GXO and Agility began with a proof-of-concept pilot in late 2023 and signed a multi-year Robots-as-a-Service agreement in June 2024. The companies describe that agreement as the first formal commercial deployment of humanoid robots in live operations and the first humanoid RaaS agreement. The service model gives GXO access to robot labor through an ongoing commercial arrangement.
A Repeat Customer Adds Two Sites
GXO CEO Patrick Kelleher said the expansion reflects confidence in the technology’s ability to create value for customers and improve working conditions for employees.
“GXO was the first customer to put Digit to work in live operations under a commercial agreement, and expanding to additional sites is the clearest signal that the value is real,” Agility CEO Peggy Johnson said.
Alongside the two-site expansion, Johnson said experience in GXO’s operations has shaped how Agility builds, deploys, and supports Digit.
GXO’s expansion is separate from Agility’s recently announced 2027 pilot with AGCO in Hesston, Kansas. That manufacturing program will test sorting and stacking parts and placing totes into storage to support agricultural equipment production.
Preparing Hardware and Support for Broader Deployment
Across Agility’s commercial operations and customer programs, Digit has accumulated more than 65,000 hours of real-world operation. Agility says that experience informed Digit 5, unveiled in September and designed for work closer to people and a broader range of industrial workflows.
The manufacturing base is RoboFab, Agility’s 70,000-square-foot facility in Salem, Oregon, designed for annual production capacity of up to 10,000 robots.
Agility is also planning a 50,000-square-foot Pittsburgh hub for software, AI, deployment, and service. Teams there will evaluate customer workflows, test new skills in simulation and on physical robots, monitor fleets, and handle complex repairs. The site will be an East Coast service center alongside existing capabilities in Oregon.
The deployment expansion comes as Agility prepares for its proposed business combination with Churchill Capital Corp XI. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026, after which the combined company is expected to trade on Nasdaq under the ticker AGLT.
