GXO plans Digit humanoid robots at two more warehouses in early 2027

GXO and Agility Robotics announced on October 26 that their Digit humanoid‑robot partnership will expand to GXO sites in Statesville, North Carolina, and Lebanon, Tennessee. The robots are intended to support e‑commerce fulfillment by taking on repetitive material‑handling work.

The timing matters: deployments are expected to begin in early 2027, rather than being completed installations announced today. The companies say they will start with Digit 4 and migrate to Digit 5 when that version becomes commercially available. Neither a planned site nor a future product transition should be read as a robot already operating there.

The [joint release](https://www.agilityrobotics.com/content/gxo‑and‑agility‑robotics‑expand‑partnership‑to‑accelerate‑deployment‑of‑humanoids‑in‑u‑s‑operations) traces the partnership to a late‑2023 proof of concept at GXO’s Flowery Branch, Georgia, site. A multi‑year Robots‑as‑a‑Service agreement followed in June 2024, covering Digit robots and Agility Arc, the supplier’s cloud platform for managing fleets and integrating them with customer operations. At that existing facility, the companies describe Digit working alongside other automation to move totes and place them onto conveyors. That is a specific transfer task within a warehouse process. It does not establish that a humanoid carries out every stage of fulfillment, or that the new sites will use an identical configuration.

GXO [published the announcement on its own investor‑relations site](https://investors.gxo.com/news‑releases/news‑release‑details/gxo‑and‑agility‑robotics‑expand‑partnership‑accelerate), confirming the customer’s participation. Its text is the same joint release as Agility’s, so the two pages are counterparty confirmation rather than independent assessments of the robots’ performance. The announcement does not specify how many robots will be installed at each new site, the price of the expanded service, or a site‑by‑site implementation schedule. It also does not provide a study of productivity, job displacement or safety outcomes at those future facilities. The concrete new commitment is the planned extension of a named commercial partnership to two additional locations. Whether it produces the companies’ hoped‑for operating benefits will require evidence from implementation, alongside the eventual availability of Digit 5. *AI‑generated editorial illustration by OpenTools Team: reusable totes on warehouse conveyors. This conceptual image does not depict a GXO site, a Digit robot or a completed installation.*