Contract logistics provider GXO will deploy humanoid robots from Agility at distribution centers it operates in North Carolina and Tennessee, expanding on a 2024 partnership that had previously seen GXO use the same model robots at a Georgia facility that handles inventory for the womens clothing brand Spanx.
Since beginning that Georgia test, Agility’s “Digit” model robot has moved more than 100,000 totes at the Flowery Branch facility, demonstrating its ability to perform repetitive material-handling tasks reliably in an active logistics environment, GXO said.
At that site, the two companies have operated a Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) agreement under which GXO deployed Digit robots and Agility Arc, Agility’s cloud-based platform for managing robot fleets and integrating them into customer operations. At Flowery Branch, Digit has worked alongside existing automation to move totes and place them onto conveyors.
Under the expanded agreement, Digit will support e-commerce fulfillment at GXO’s Statesville and Lebanon sites, taking on highly repetitive material-handling tasks. Deployments are expected to begin in early 2027 using Digit 4 and will migrate to Digit 5 when it becomes commercially available. The Digit 5 model is designed for cooperatively safe work in close proximity to people and to address a broader range of industrial workflows.
“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,” said Peggy Johnson, CEO of Agility Robotics. “Customers are moving beyond asking whether humanoid robots can work to deciding where they can scale them. Years of experience performing real work in GXO’s operations have shaped how we build, deploy and support Digit, and we’re focused on disciplined execution as we grow this partnership.”
To support that broader commercial adoption, Agility has invested in the infrastructure needed to manufacture, deploy and support humanoid robots at scale, including RoboFab, its 70,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Salem, Oregon, designed for annual production capacity of up to 10,000 robots.
GXO has also trialed humanoid robots from the technology providers Apptronik and Reflex in separate pilots.
