# GXO and Agility Robotics Expand Digit Humanoid Deployment to North Carolina and Tennessee

> GXO will deploy Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid at Statesville and Lebanon sites from early 2027, after the robots moved over 100,000 totes in Georgia.

- Published: 2026-10-26T11:20:31+00:00
- Section: Partnerships
- Author: News Desk
- URL: https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-10-26/gxo-agility-robotics-humanoid-expansion
- Source: [Stock Titan](https://www.stocktitan.net/news/GXO/gxo-and-agility-robotics-expand-partnership-to-accelerate-deployment-g5s86t6of1eo.html)

## Key takeaways

- GXO and Agility Robotics will deploy Digit humanoid robots at GXO sites in Statesville, North Carolina and Lebanon, Tennessee, with deployments expected to begin in early 2027.
- Digit has moved more than 100,000 totes at GXO's Flowery Branch, Georgia facility since the companies' 2024 Robots-as-a-Service agreement.
- Agility Robotics' Digit has accumulated more than 65,000 hours of real-world operation across its commercial operations and customer programs.

[GXO Logistics](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/0000c6r/gxo-logistics) and [Agility](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/000005o/agility) Robotics expanded their partnership to deploy Digit humanoid robots at GXO sites in Statesville, North Carolina and Lebanon, Tennessee, with deployments expected to begin in early 2027. [Stock Titan](https://www.stocktitan.net/news/GXO/gxo-and-agility-robotics-expand-partnership-to-accelerate-deployment-g5s86t6of1eo.html) reported the expansion on October 26, 2026.

## GXO's Digit Rollout Beyond Flowery Branch

The expanded agreement covers e-commerce fulfillment, where Digit will take on highly repetitive material-handling tasks. Deployments will use Digit 4 and migrate to Digit 5 when it becomes commercially available, according to the announcement.

The companies began working together with a proof-of-concept pilot in late 2023 at GXO's Flowery Branch, Georgia site. In June 2024, they signed a multi-year Robots-as-a-Service agreement under which GXO deployed Digit robots and Agility Arc, Agility's cloud-based platform for managing robot fleets and integrating them into customer operations. At Flowery Branch, Digit has worked alongside existing automation to move totes and place them onto conveyors, and has moved more than 100,000 totes there.

"GXO was the first customer to put Digit to work in live operations under a commercial agreement, and expanding to additional sites is the clearest signal that the value is real," said Peggy Johnson, CEO of Agility Robotics. GXO CEO Patrick Kelleher said the partnership has been defined by a shared commitment to turning emerging technologies into real-world operational advantage.

Agility Robotics signed a commercial agreement with AGCO on October 20, 2026 to pilot Digit at AGCO's Hesston, Kansas facility starting in 2027, PR Newswire reported.

## GXO's Warehouse Automation Partnerships

GXO Logistics, according to akta.pro [company records](https://akta.pro/company-data), established a Physical AI platform partnership with KION GROUP and NVIDIA in July 2026 to integrate industrial warehouse automation with NVIDIA's computing stack. The same records show a July 2026 partnership with Apptronik to deploy Apollo 2 humanoid robots at GXO customer sites, generating real-world training data for embodied AI models. GXO reported over $13.2 billion in 2025 revenue and operates more than 1,000 warehouse locations globally.

## GXO's Recent Contract and Growth Moves

GXO signed a 10-year logistics deal with Columbia Sportswear and appointed Dan Davis as aerospace leader, Yahoo reported in October 2026. Debenhams Group announced a return to Burnley for fulfilment operations through a partnership with GXO Logistics, expected to create over 1,200 jobs, Retail Technology Innovation Hub reported on October 26, 2026. GXO outlined a shift to organic growth at Morgan Stanley's Laguna conference, citing a $2.7 billion contract pipeline and 40% of Q2 wins from aerospace and data centers, Investing.com reported in September 2026.

## Agility Robotics' Public Listing Plans

Agility Robotics is preparing to become a public company through its business combination with Churchill Capital Corp XI, expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026. The combined company is expected to trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "AGLT."

## Companies in this story

- [GXO Logistics company profile](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/0000c6r/gxo-logistics) · website: https://www.gxo.com
- [Agility company profile](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/000005o/agility) · website: http://www.agilityrobotics.com

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