GXO Flowery Branch and Agility Robotics Digit

The deployment that broke the "humanoid robots only work in labs" frame. On June 5, 2024, a Digit bipedal humanoid robot from Agility Robotics began commercial operations at a GXO Logistics facility in Flowery Branch, Georgia, marking the first time a humanoid robot was deployed to a paying commercial customer's live workplace. By late 2025, the operation had moved more than 100,000 totes under a multi-year robots-as-a-service agreement, validating the entire commercial-humanoid thesis and putting Agility ahead of every Western humanoid competitor on the verified-deployment scoreboard.

The short version

GXO Flowery Branch is the canonical "first commercial humanoid" deployment in 2026. The site operates Digit robots from Agility Robotics under a multi-year robots-as-a-service agreement, handling repetitive material movement tasks in a live distribution center supporting SPANX-brand product fulfillment for GXO. The verified operating record makes Flowery Branch the reference deployment for what sustained humanoid-in-the-workplace operation actually looks like.

The operating site

The Flowery Branch facility sits outside Atlanta, Georgia, and is a GXO-operated distribution center for SPANX-brand women's apparel. The site combines traditional human warehouse workforce with multiple automation systems: cobot autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), conveyor systems, and now Digit humanoid robots operating alongside both. Digit's primary task is repetitive tote movement, including picking totes from cobots and placing them onto conveyors. The robots integrate with existing automation through the Agility Arc cloud platform, which orchestrates fleet deployment, mapping, workflow definition, and operational management.

GXO Logistics, headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut and listed on NYSE as GXO, is the world's largest pure-play contract logistics provider. Its decision to be the first commercial customer for humanoid robots was driven, per the company's public statements, by an R&D approach of partnering with technology developers early to validate operating capability in live warehouse environments.

The history

The deployment unfolded in clearly documented stages:

• Late 2023: An initial proof-of-concept pilot at the GXO Flowery Branch / SPANX facility, which laid the groundwork for going commercial.
• June 5, 2024: Digit starts commercial operations at Flowery Branch, the first humanoid deployed in a live workplace at a paying customer site (announced retrospectively by Agility in October 2024).
• June 27, 2024: GXO and Agility announce a multi-year robots-as-a-service (RaaS) agreement, the industry's first of its kind. GXO pays for operating capability over time; Agility handles deployment, maintenance, fleet management, and software.
• August 8, 2024: The RaaS agreement is formalized publicly and deployment scales, continuing to expand through 2024 and 2025.
• Late 2025: Cumulative totes moved passes 100,000 (announced November 20, 2025), the most-cited metric for the deployment and the benchmark others are now measured against.

What gets verified

The verified record for GXO Flowery Branch is unusually clean for a humanoid deployment because both GXO (as a public company) and Agility Robotics have published consistent operational milestones with dates and sources. Key verified data points:

• Operator: GXO Logistics (NYSE: GXO), via its SPANX distribution center
• Site: Flowery Branch, Georgia (Atlanta metro)
• Robot: Digit, bipedal humanoid by Agility Robotics (5'9" / 175 cm, 35 lb / 16 kg payload, bird-leg topology)
• Fleet platform: Agility Arc cloud platform
• Commercial structure: multi-year robots-as-a-service agreement
• First commercial operation: June 5, 2024
• First public milestone: 100,000+ totes moved as of November 2025
• Integration: works alongside cobot AMRs and conveyors via Agility Arc orchestration

What this deployment proves

Three things, each of which were live questions when GXO Flowery Branch began commercial operation:

• Humanoids can sustain commercial-grade work for months at scale. 100,000+ totes at one facility under contract is operating-volume proof, not a pilot. Earlier auto-plant deployments (including the BMW Spartanburg Figure 02 pilot) were time-limited evaluations; the GXO RaaS is an ongoing commercial relationship.
• RaaS works as a commercial model for humanoids. Customers pay for operating capability instead of buying robots outright, and Agility can revise hardware without forcing customer swaps. Later Agility deployments at Toyota Canada (February 2026), Amazon, and Schaeffler use the same structure.
• Humanoids slot into existing automation, no greenfield required. Flowery Branch runs Digit alongside cobot AMRs, conveyors, and human workers. The warehouse was not redesigned around the robot; Digit fits the spaces built for people and the existing automation grid.

What to watch

Two things matter most for what GXO Flowery Branch becomes in the next eighteen months.

First, whether GXO's deployment expands to additional GXO facilities beyond Flowery Branch. GXO operates hundreds of warehouses globally; if the Flowery Branch reference customer produces deployment in three, five, or ten additional GXO sites, that signals that humanoid-in-warehouse operation has crossed from pilot to scale-up phase across the broader GXO network, not just one site.

Second, whether the 100,000-totes operating-data milestone becomes the standard benchmark other humanoid deployments measure against. The metric is GXO-and-Agility-specific (a tote is the SPANX distribution unit at this facility), but the operational concept (cumulative work units moved over sustained operation) is the kind of verified-deployment data the industry now expects from any humanoid commercial deployment. Whether Figure, Apptronik, Tesla, Unitree, or others publish equivalent metrics through 2026 will determine whether the operational-transparency norm holds across the category.

The verified record is below. Numbers reflect Agility Robotics public disclosures, GXO Logistics public statements, and primary-source coverage as of late May 2026.