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GXO Adds Two U.S. Sites for Agility’s Digit Robots
GXO plans to bring Agility Robotics’ Digit robots to facilities in Statesville, North Carolina, and Lebanon, Tennessee, with deployments expected to begin in early 2027. The rollout is set to start with Digit 4 and transition to Digit 5 whe
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“Customers are moving beyond asking whether humanoid robots can work to deciding where they can scale them.”
Peggy Johnson, CEO of Agility Robotics
GXO Logistics plans to bring Agility Robotics’ Digit humanoid robots to two more U.S. facilities, expanding a commercial partnership from one warehouse to three. The companies said on October 26, 2026, that deployments at GXO’s sites in Statesville, North Carolina, and Lebanon, Tennessee, are expected to start in early 2027.
The robots will support e-commerce fulfillment, performing repetitive material-handling work. GXO and Agility expect to begin with Digit 4, then move those deployments to Digit 5 when that model becomes commercially available. The announcement gives no robot count, contract value, or specific productivity target for the new sites.
From Flowery Branch to two new sites
The expansion builds on a partnership that began with a proof-of-concept pilot in late 2023 at GXO’s Flowery Branch, Georgia, facility. In June 2024, the companies signed a multi-year Robots-as-a-Service agreement, under which GXO deployed Digit robots and Agility Arc, Agility’s cloud-based system for managing robot fleets and connecting them with customer operations.
At Flowery Branch, Digit works alongside existing automation, moving totes and placing them onto conveyors. The companies say the robot has moved more than 100,000 totes at that facility. That site-specific milestone is separate from Agility’s broader figure of more than 65,000 hours of real-world operation across its commercial operations and customer programs.
GXO CEO Patrick Kelleher said the companies had focused on turning emerging technologies into real-world operational advantage. He also said the expansion reflects confidence in the technology’s ability to create measurable value for customers and a better working environment for teams.
Digit 4 first, with a planned move to Digit 5
The staged model transition makes the new rollout dependent on Digit 5’s commercial availability. Agility unveiled Digit 5 on September 15, 2026, and says it is designed for work near people and a wider range of industrial workflows. The companies did not give a date for that availability or a timetable for migrating robots at Statesville and Lebanon.
Agility says the operating experience gained at customer sites has informed Digit 5’s development. The company also points to its 70,000-square-foot RoboFab manufacturing facility in Salem, Oregon, which it designed for annual production capacity of up to 10,000 robots, as part of the infrastructure supporting manufacturing and deployments.
A commercial expansion without new performance targets
The practical significance of the announcement is its move beyond the original Flowery Branch site: GXO is committing to additional locations for the same class of repetitive fulfillment work. But the release does not disclose how many robots will go to either facility, what tasks they will handle beyond material movement, or how GXO will measure their effect on throughput, labor, or safety.
Those details will determine how far the arrangement extends from an announced rollout to a measurable operating model. For now, the concrete plan is limited to two named facilities, an early-2027 start using Digit 4, and a later transition to Digit 5 when commercially available.