GXO and Agility expand Digit to two more sites on October 26, 2026

GXO Logistics and Agility Robotics said on October 26, 2026 that Agility’s Digit humanoid robot will expand from GXO’s Flowery Branch, Georgia warehouse to two more GXO sites, in Statesville, North Carolina and Lebanon, Tennessee. According to the joint announcement, also published by GXO, deployments are expected to begin in early 2027 on the current Digit 4 and move to Digit 5 once the newer robot is commercially available.

The companies did not say how many robots each new site will get, or the value of the agreement.

From one warehouse to three

The partnership has moved through three stages, by the companies’ own account:

Under the RaaS model GXO pays for the robots as a service rather than buying them outright. At Flowery Branch, Digit has worked alongside the existing automation, moving totes and placing them onto conveyors. The companies say it has moved more than 100,000 totes there. At the new sites Digit will support e-commerce fulfilment, again on what the release calls “highly repetitive material-handling tasks.”

Digit 4 now, Digit 5 later

The expansion starts on Digit 4, the model already working for GXO. Agility unveiled Digit 5 on September 15, 2026, with AI-based detection of people nearby, a higher payload and a battery system designed for near-continuous shifts; our Digit 5 report lists the specifications Agility published. The October 26 release says only that GXO’s robots will “migrate to Digit 5 when it becomes commercially available”, without a date.

Agility also gives two figures about its wider operation: Digit has accumulated more than 65,000 hours of real-world operation across its commercial deployments and customer programmes, and its RoboFab factory in Salem, Oregon, a 70,000-square-foot plant, is designed for annual production capacity of up to 10,000 robots. That is design capacity, not an output figure.

What the expansion shows, and what it doesn’t

The news here is a repeat order: the first customer to run Digit in live operations under a commercial agreement is adding two sites after more than two years at Flowery Branch. That is a different signal from a pilot or a pre-order, and it bears on the trade-offs between general-purpose humanoids and fixed warehouse automation set out in our humanoid vs industrial robots explainer. The release does not publish productivity, uptime or cost figures from Flowery Branch beyond the tote count, so the business case remains GXO’s and Agility’s own assessment.

Agility is also among the robot makers NVIDIA named as integrating its Halos safety platform at GTC Berlin on October 21, covered in our NVIDIA Isaac report. Who else builds humanoids, and what they sell, is in our humanoid robots for sale explainer.