Company

GXO Logistics is the world's largest pure-play contract logistics provider and the first commercial deployer of humanoid robots into live workplace operations. Spun off from XPO Logistics in 2021 and listed on NYSE as GXO, the company operates more than 970 facilities totaling approximately 200 million square feet across 27 countries, with more than 130,000 team members. GXO generates over 40% of its revenue from automated sites, five times the industry average of 8%, and has established an Incubation Program for evaluating cutting-edge robotics technologies in real warehouse environments. The company has piloted humanoids from at least three vendors (Agility Robotics, Reflex Robotics, Apptronik) and was the first operator in the world to sign a multi-year Robots-as-a-Service agreement for humanoid deployment.

GXO's editorial significance is institutional, not just deployment-specific. The company has built the most-developed operator-side framework for humanoid evaluation in the industry: the GXO Incubation Program operates the warehouse as a real-world laboratory for co-developing humanoid use cases with vendor partners. This is the operator-side equivalent of BMW's Center of Competence for Physical AI in Production. Most operators evaluate humanoids ad hoc; GXO has structured the evaluation itself as a strategic capability.

Based in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA · Founded 2021 · 1 operated deployment