Agility's Digit is headed to two more GXO warehouses in 2027

GXO and Agility Robotics announced on 26 October that they are extending their agreement for the Digit humanoid robot. The additional sites are GXO facilities in Statesville, North Carolina, and Lebanon, Tennessee. Deployments are expected to begin in early 2027; the announcement does not say Digit is already working in either new facility. The companies plan to start with Digit 4 and move to Digit 5 when that version becomes commercially available.

What is already operating

The existing deployment is in Flowery Branch, Georgia. GXO and Agility signed a multiyear robots-as-a-service agreement in 2024. There, Digit moves totes and places them on conveyors alongside other warehouse automation. GXO says the program has moved more than 100,000 totes. That is a company-reported figure, not an independent ROBOLERO measurement. The embedded GXO video shows the Georgia operation in 2024. It neither depicts the newly announced sites nor proves that the 2027 expansion has happened.

The new assignment is repetitive material handling for e-commerce fulfillment. A bounded warehouse task should not be mistaken for a robot that can work unsupervised in every environment. The announcements do not specify how many Digits will go to the new sites, a unit price or a measured return on investment. Those figures would help assess the program's scale, but inventing them would mislead readers.

Why the robot version matters

The partners distinguish the initial Digit 4 rollout from the planned later transition to Digit 5. Agility has introduced the next-generation model, yet its commercial availability remains a condition of the upgrade. Reporting that GXO will install Digit 5 immediately would collapse a crucial part of the timetable.

The useful checks in 2027 will be the actual start dates, unit counts, tasks performed, human interventions and service continuity. Integration with conveyors, fleet software and each building's safety procedures will matter as well. A signed expansion is evidence of commercial intent; operational results at the two new facilities will need their own confirmation.

For an individual buyer, Digit is an enterprise automation case rather than a household product with a public checkout price. For a practical comparison with an available humanoid, see our Unitree G1 calibration analysis. The concrete development is that an existing Georgia program is set to expand to two named locations, with an initial model and a target start period stated openly. Later evidence can be measured against that plan.

Sources: GXO's announcement; Agility Robotics' update; DC Velocity's independent report; GXO's original Georgia video.