On 26 October 2026, GXO Logistics and Agility Robotics announced an expansion of their partnership: Digit humanoid robots will be deployed at two more GXO warehouses, in Statesville and Lebanon, to carry out repetitive handling tasks supporting e-commerce order fulfilment. Deployment will begin in early 2027 with the Digit 4 model, which will be replaced by Digit 5 once it becomes commercially available.
The partnership between GXO and Agility began with a pilot project in late 2023 at Flowery Branch. In June 2024, the two companies signed a multi-year contract under a Robots-as-a-Service model, which they described as the first commercial agreement for the operational deployment of humanoid robots. Alongside the robots, GXO adopted Agility Arc, the cloud platform used to manage robot fleets and integrate them into customers’ operations. At Flowery Branch, Digit works alongside existing automation, picking up totes and placing them on conveyor belts. It has moved more than 100,000 totes since operations began. Peggy Johnson, Agility’s chief executive, says experience gained in GXO’s operations has helped shape changes to Digit’s design, deployment procedures and servicing.
Across commercial operations and customer programmes, Digit has accumulated more than 65,000 operating hours. That experience has informed the development of Digit 5, unveiled on 15 September 2026 and designed to work safely in close proximity to people and handle a broader range of industrial workflows. Agility has also invested in manufacturing: its RoboFab facility in Salem, Oregon, covering around 6,500 square metres, is designed to produce up to 10,000 robots a year, while its previously announced expansion in Pittsburgh increases its software, deployment and servicing capabilities. On the corporate side, Agility is preparing to list on Nasdaq through a merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Completion is expected in the fourth quarter of 2026: the combined company will be called Agility Robotics and trade on Nasdaq under the ticker AGLT.
