GXO Logistics and Agility Robotics announced on October 26, 2026, an expansion of their partnership that will place Digit humanoid robots in two additional U.S. warehouses, in Statesville, North Carolina, and Lebanon, Tennessee, with operations scheduled to begin in early 20271,3. The new sites will initially run Digit 4 units and migrate to Digit 5 when that model becomes commercially available.
The expansion follows a 100,000-tote operational milestone at GXO Logistics' original Flowery Branch, Georgia, facility, where Digit achieved approximately 98 percent on-task accuracy, the largest published real-world dataset for humanoid warehouse robots. Agility Robotics describes that figure as the foundation for the scale-up decision.
From pilot to multi-site RaaS
GXO Logistics and Agility Robotics began working together through a proof-of-concept pilot in late 2023 at the Flowery Branch site. In June 2024, the companies signed a multi-year Robots-as-a-Service agreement that both parties describe as the industry's first formal commercial deployment of humanoid robots in live operations and the first RaaS contract for humanoid robots. Under that agreement, Digit robots were deployed alongside Agility Robotics' cloud-based fleet management platform, ARC, to move totes and place them onto conveyors alongside existing automation.
At the expanded sites, Digit will support e-commerce fulfillment, taking on highly repetitive material-handling tasks. GXO Logistics CEO Patrick Kelleher said the expansion reflects the company's confidence in the technology's ability to create measurable value for customers and a better working environment for its teams. Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson said years of experience performing real work in GXO Logistics' operations have shaped how Agility Robotics builds, deploys, and supports Digit, and that expanding to additional sites is the clearest signal that the value is real.
Digit 5 and manufacturing scale
The next-generation Digit 5 carries a 10-to-1 run-to-charge ratio, a step change from its predecessor that closes the gap between a robot that interrupts shift flow and one that does not in a 24-hour warehouse. Agility Robotics' 70,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Salem, Oregon, known as RoboFab, is designed for annual production capacity of up to 10,000 robots.
Separately, Agility Robotics is preparing to become a public company through a business combination with Churchill Capital Corp XI, expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026; the joint registration statement on Form S-4 was declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 13, 2026. The combined company is expected to trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol AGLT.
ANALYSIS The move from a single proof-of-concept site to three commercial locations, backed by a published 100,000-tote operating record, converts what was a demonstration into a repeatable deployment pattern for humanoid logistics robots. The pending public listing through a SPAC could provide Agility Robotics with the capital to match RoboFab's stated 10,000-unit annual capacity to the demand pipeline that multi-site contracts like this one represent.