GXO Logistics plans to put Digit robots to work at two more warehouses, in Statesville, North Carolina, and Lebanon, Tennessee. The companies announced the expansion on October 26, with deployments expected to begin in early 2027.

Both sites will support e-commerce fulfillment. They will start with Digit 4 and move to Digit 5 when the new model is commercially available. The announcement gives no robot count or contract value.

From one site to three

GXO and Agility began a proof-of-concept pilot in late 2023 at GXO’s Flowery Branch warehouse in Georgia. A multi-year robots-as-a-service agreement followed in June 2024, covering Digit and Agility Arc, the software used to manage its work alongside the site’s existing automation.

The companies say Digit has since moved more than 100,000 totes at Flowery Branch, picking them up and placing them onto conveyors. That figure comes from Digit 4 at the Georgia site. It does not describe the new model or the two planned deployments.

“Customers are moving beyond asking whether humanoid robots can work to deciding where they can scale them.”

Peggy Johnson, Agility CEO, in the expansion announcement

The hardware change comes later

Digit 5 was unveiled on September 15. Agility’s November 5 listing announcement puts early customer access in the first half of 2027 and general availability at the end of that year. The new warehouses are scheduled to start before that wider release; neither announcement gives a date for their switch to Digit 5.