Agility says its humanoid hit a throughput milestone at GXO. It didn't say how long it took.

Previously

In April 2025, GXO was piloting humanoids from Agility, Apptronik and Reflex, and was in talks with four more makers. Business Insider reported that two Digit units were working in one facility, out of more than 1,000 GXO warehouses (Part 1).

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga., November 2025 — Agility Robotics says its Digit humanoid has passed a throughput milestone at the Spanx warehouse GXO runs here. Here's what changed since Part 1 (April 2025), what it cost, and what went wrong.

Cost and outcome (as of November 2025)

Totes moved: "over 100,000," per Agility. (Agility Robotics)
Time period, robot count, uptime: not disclosed.
ROI: Agility says the milestone establishes "a clear, long-term Return on Investment (ROI)," but gives no figures. (Agility Robotics)
Contract price: not disclosed. GXO uses Digit under a multi-year Robots-as-a-Service agreement signed in June 2024. (GXO)

What Agility claims

"Today we celebrate a crucial milestone as Digit, our general-purpose humanoid, has moved over 100,000 totes at GXO's Flowery Branch facility," Agility wrote. It said the count shows "high-volume, reliable throughput, effectively establishing a clear, long-term Return on Investment (ROI)."

Robotics & Automation News reported that, according to Agility, Digit picks totes on and off autonomous mobile robots, loads items onto conveyors and stacks containers at different floor locations. Agility describes that as multiple tasks within a live workflow, and as evidence for a "general-purpose humanoid."

Agility says it trains Digit with a mix of traditional control methods, teleoperated demonstrations, policy training, reinforcement learning and simulation. It also stresses safety: "there is no scale without safety," the post says, adding that long-term deployment is "actively proving the viability of safe human-robot teaming."

What the post leaves out

The post doesn't say when counting began, how many Digits contributed, how many hours they ran, how often people stepped in, or what the robots cost GXO.

That makes the figure hard to judge. As our own arithmetic, not Agility's: if counting began with the June 2024 agreement, about 17 months earlier, 100,000 totes would average under 200 a day across all Digits at the site. If it began later, the rate would be higher. Agility hasn't said which.

GXO, the operator, hasn't published its own figure. The quotes in the post are Agility's; the milestone page doesn't quote GXO.

How it compares with GXO's own goals

In April 2025, GXO Chief Automation Officer Adrian Stoch told Business Insider what humanoids still needed before wider deployment: better dexterity, the ability to learn multiple tasks through AI, and efficient manufacturing at scale. He said GXO was "not at wide-scale deployment and commercial viability yet."

Agility's post speaks to the second point, describing several tasks in one workflow. It doesn't address the third, and it doesn't say whether Digit has spread beyond the Spanx site, where GXO's June 2024 agreement put it into commercial work moving totes from collaborative robots onto conveyors. A running total at one facility is a sign of endurance. It isn't yet the scale GXO said it was looking for, and GXO hasn't said whether the milestone changes its plans for the robot elsewhere in its network.

What's changed

In April 2025, the pilot was described as two robots doing one task. By November, Agility describes several tasks and a running total. The claim has grown; the evidence for it is still the vendor's own count, with no period attached.

What went wrong

No denominator. A total without a time period or robot count can't be compared with a person or another machine.
ROI without numbers. Agility asserts a return but gives no cost or savings.
One source. GXO hasn't confirmed the figure.
What we don't know yet: the start date of the count, the number of Digits, interventions per shift, and what GXO pays per robot-hour.

Our follow-up question for GXO

Does GXO's own data match Agility's 100,000-tote figure, and over what period and how many robots?

Later developments (added Oct. 2026)

On GXO's Q2 2026 earnings call, Morgan Stanley analyst Ravi Shanker asked how many of the robots GXO is deploying would be humanoids. CEO Patrick Kelleher said: "In production, zero will be humanoids this year." He said GXO had completed 45 humanoid pilots, had another European pilot preparing to launch, and had not yet achieved ROI with humanoids, according to the Association for Advancing Automation (A3). Kelleher estimated production was "probably about two years away." (A3)
GXO expects nearly 20,000 robots across its network by the end of 2026, none of them humanoids in production, A3 reported. At the Jefferies Global Industrials Conference in September 2026, Kelleher identified hand dexterity and task speed as "two of the biggest remaining challenges," A3 said. (A3)

Sources

Agility Robotics, “Digit Moves Over 100,000 Totes in Commercial Deployment,” undated (November 2025). agilityrobotics.com
Robotics & Automation News, “Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid hits 100,000-tote milestone in commercial warehouse use,” Nov. 24, 2025. roboticsandautomationnews.com
GXO, “GXO signs industry-first multi-year agreement with Agility Robotics,” June 27, 2024. gxo.com
Aaron Prather, Association for Advancing Automation, “GXO Plans 20,000 Robots in 2026. None of Them Will Be Humanoids.,” Sept. 23, 2026. automate.org
Earlier in this series: Part 1. /case/gxo-humanoids-three-makers

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