GXO takes Agility's Digit humanoids to two more US warehouses in early 2027
GXO will deploy Agility's Digit at Statesville and Lebanon sites for e-commerce fulfillment, starting on Digit 4 and moving to Digit 5.
GXO Logistics and Agility Robotics are expanding their humanoid partnership from a single warehouse pilot to two more US sites. Under the expanded agreement, Digit robots will handle e-commerce fulfillment work at GXO's Statesville and Lebanon sites, taking on highly repetitive material-handling tasks. Deployments are set to begin in early 2027 using Digit 4, and will migrate to Digit 5 when that next-generation robot becomes commercially available.
The expansion rests on a track record, not a demo. GXO and Agility began with a proof-of-concept pilot in late 2023 at GXO's Flowery Branch site in Georgia, then signed a multi-year Robots-as-a-Service agreement in June 2024 that the companies describe as the industry's first formal commercial deployment of humanoid robots in live operations. Since then, Digit has moved more than 100,000 totes at Flowery Branch, placing them onto conveyors alongside existing automation. Across its commercial operations and customer programs, the Digit fleet has accumulated more than 65,000 hours of real-world operation, according to the companies.
The timing points to a deliberate sequencing. Digit 5, unveiled on September 15, 2026, is designed for cooperatively safe work in close proximity to people and for a broader range of industrial workflows than its predecessor. Agility's manufacturing base for that scale-up is RoboFab, its 70,000-square-foot facility in Salem, Oregon, designed for annual production capacity of up to 10,000 robots, alongside a recently announced Pittsburgh expansion for deployment and service. Capacity figures describe what the plant is designed to support, not what it currently produces.
The deal also lands weeks before a corporate milestone. Agility is preparing to become a public company through its business combination with Churchill Capital Corp XI, expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026, after which the combined company is expected to trade on Nasdaq under the ticker AGLT. Its registration statement was declared effective by the SEC on October 13, 2026. Digit's footprint is widening beyond warehouses in parallel: Agility signed an agreement with AGCO on October 20 to pilot Digit at a Kansas manufacturing plant, also starting in 2027.
What the announcement does not say matters as much as what it does. GXO and Agility have not disclosed how many robots will go to the two new sites, or the value of the expanded agreement, so the scale of this step cannot yet be sized from public figures. The migration to Digit 5 is also conditional on that robot's commercial availability. Agility chief executive Peggy Johnson frames the shift as customers moving past the question of whether humanoids can work to deciding where they can scale. The evidence for that claim will be whether the two new sites, like Flowery Branch, turn into durable, multi-year operations rather than extended pilots.