GXO is putting Digit to work in two more warehouses: Agility's humanoid goes from one site to three

• Who: GXO Logistics, the world’s largest pure-play contract logistics provider, and Agility Robotics, the Salem, Oregon maker of the Digit humanoid robot.
• What: Digit will expand to two additional GXO facilities — Statesville, North Carolina, and Lebanon, Tennessee — for e-commerce fulfillment work, starting with Digit 4 and migrating to Digit 5 when it is commercially available.
• When: Announced October 26, 2026; deployments are expected to begin in early 2027.
• Proof point: Digit has moved more than 100,000 totes at GXO’s Flowery Branch, Georgia facility under a multi-year agreement that began in June 2024, the industry’s first formal commercial humanoid deployment.
• Wider momentum: Agility also disclosed three additional enterprise manufacturing customers in paid programs, more than 30 prospective customers, and more than $300 million in committed multi-year orders for Digit 5.
• Scale-up: Agility’s RoboFab plant in Salem, Oregon spans 70,000 square feet with annual capacity of up to 10,000 robots; Digit 5 early access is expected in the first half of 2027.

GXO Logistics is doubling down on humanoid robots. GXO and Agility Robotics announced on October 26, 2026 that Digit, Agility’s humanoid robot, will expand to GXO logistics sites in Statesville, North Carolina, and Lebanon, Tennessee, where it will handle e-commerce fulfillment work. Deployments are expected to begin in early 2027, starting with Digit 4 and migrating to Digit 5 once that model becomes commercially available.

The expansion matters because it is a repeat order, not a first trial. Digit has been working at GXO’s Flowery Branch, Georgia facility since 2024 under what the companies describe as the industry’s first formal commercial deployment of a humanoid robot in live operations — and the first Robots-as-a-Service agreement for humanoids. Since then, Digit has moved more than 100,000 totes at the Georgia site, doing the repetitive material-handling work that warehouses struggle to staff and automate with fixed machinery.

“Innovation is most powerful when it delivers practical solutions that create value for our customers and our people,” GXO chief executive Patrick Kelleher said in the announcement. “This expansion reflects our confidence in the technology’s ability to create measurable value for our customers and a better working environment for our teams.”

More than one customer, more than one sector

Agility used the same day to lay out a broader commercial picture. Beyond GXO, it disclosed three additional enterprise manufacturing customers now in paid programs: a major global automaker selling more than three million vehicles a year, one of the world’s largest developers of automotive technology and components, and a leading global consumer products manufacturer. The three asked not to be named, which Agility said is common among early adopters of new technology.

Its existing customer list already spans AGCO, which announced a Digit pilot for its Hesston, Kansas plant on October 20, 2026, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, Schaeffler, and Mercado Libre, Latin America’s largest e-commerce company. Agility also said it is engaged with more than 30 prospective customers through commercial discussions or its Customer Acceleration Program, including two potential subcontractor engagements supporting a branch of the U.S. Armed Services that are still at an early stage, with no agreements signed.

The Digit 5 handover — and the factory behind it

The GXO rollout is deliberately staged across two robot generations. Digit 4 goes in first in early 2027; Digit 5, unveiled on September 15, 2026 and designed for cooperatively safe work close to people, follows when commercially available. Agility said it has previously disclosed more than $300 million in committed multi-year orders for Digit 5 — potential value over time, subject to contractual milestones, not current-period revenue — with early customer access expected in the first half of 2027 and general availability targeted for the end of 2027.

Behind the robots sits the manufacturing bet: RoboFab, Agility’s 70,000-square-foot plant in Salem, Oregon, designed for annual production capacity of up to 10,000 robots, plus Agility Arc, its cloud platform for managing robot fleets. Agility is also 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 it expects to trade on Nasdaq under the ticker AGLT.

None of this makes humanoids a solved problem — the work so far is narrow, repetitive material handling, not general-purpose labour. But the pattern Agility is selling is now visible in the numbers: one site proves the job, the customer buys the second and third, and the pipeline behind it keeps growing. For warehouse automation, that is the difference between a demo and a deployment. Unite.AI also covered the expansion on October 26, 2026.