GXO plans to deploy Agility Robotics’ Digit humanoid robots at facilities in North Carolina and Tennessee, extending an existing warehouse partnership.
Logistics company GXO and Agility Robotics announced an expansion of their commercial agreement to deploy Digit humanoid robots at two additional U.S. facilities, in Statesville, North Carolina, and Lebanon, Tennessee. The companies expect deployments to begin in early 2027. The expansion follows work at GXO’s Flowery Branch, Georgia, facility, where Agility says Digit has moved more than 100,000 totes in live operations.
The new sites provide a concrete test of whether a humanoid robot workflow that has operated at one warehouse can be introduced at additional facilities. GXO describes the arrangement as an extension of its multi-year relationship with Agility, which began with a commercial deployment agreement in 2024. The firms say the robots will handle repetitive material-moving tasks; the announcement does not describe a broad replacement of warehouse workers or give expected staffing changes.
Agility says the new deployments are expected to use Digit 4, with plans to transition to Digit 5 as that model becomes commercially available. That means the expansion depends on a future rollout and should not be mistaken for robots already operating at the two new locations. The companies have not disclosed the number of robots planned for each site or detailed the financial terms of the expanded agreement.
The announcement adds to evidence that some humanoid robotics efforts are moving from demonstrations into defined commercial workflows, while also showing how gradual that transition remains. GXO’s existing site offers an operational reference point, but performance at one facility does not guarantee identical results across different locations, layouts or workflows. For logistics and manufacturing leaders, the relevant next measures will be whether the additional deployments begin on schedule, how consistently the robots perform, and whether the use case can scale economically beyond initial sites.