GXO and Agility Robotics Expand Partnership to Deploy Digit at Two More U.S. Sites
SUMMARY
GXO Logistics and Agility Robotics announced on 26 October 2026 that they are expanding their partnership, with Agility's Digit humanoid robot going to GXO sites in North Carolina and Tennessee.
Under the expanded agreement, Digit will support e-commerce fulfilment 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 are to move to Digit 5 once that robot becomes commercially available.
The expansion builds on a multi-year Robots-as-a-Service agreement signed in June 2024, which followed a proof-of-concept pilot at GXO's Flowery Branch site in late 2023. Under that agreement GXO deployed Digit robots together with Agility Arc, Agility's cloud-based platform for managing robot fleets and integrating them into customer operations. At Flowery Branch, Digit works alongside existing automation, moving totes and placing them onto conveyors. Agility says Digit has moved more than 100,000 totes there.
Agility also says Digit has accumulated more than 65,000 hours of real-world operation across its commercial operations and customer programmes, and that this experience informed Digit 5. The company unveiled that robot on 15 September 2026 and describes it as designed for cooperatively safe work in close proximity to people.
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WHY IT MATTERS
EDITORIALThe announcement extends Digit beyond the Flowery Branch warehouse to two further GXO sites, and ties those deployments to a staged move from Digit 4 to Digit 5 once the newer robot is commercially available.