Humanoid Robot Digit Moves 100,000 Totes at Distribution Center

Flowery Branch, GA—Agility Robotics' humanoid robot, Digit, has moved more than 100,000 totes at GXO Logistics' Flowery Branch facility in Georgia. Logistics operators face a combination of rising throughput demands and persistent labor shortages, driving the need for automation that can both scale and adapt. Unlike fixed robotic arms or single-purpose AMRs, Digit’s humanlike form lets it operate in existing facilities without major infrastructure changes. It can handle varied tasks within the same workflow, from transferring totes between AMRs and conveyors to stacking them in different locations. The milestone confirms Digit’s ability to perform these jobs consistently, at high payload capacities, and across thousands of cycles.
Agility’s approach to AI focuses on practical deployment, blending traditional control, teleoperated demonstrations, reinforcement learning, and simulation. This pipeline enables Digit to learn new skills and harden them in real-world conditions. Capabilities such as dynamic balancing and vision-driven grasping have been tested repeatedly across changing environments, with the 100K-tote metric demonstrating seamless integration into live operational workflows—not just isolated tasks.
Safety remains the central requirement for any 3PL considering new automation. By keeping Digit in long-term production environments, Agility is establishing a model for safe human–robot collaboration, building the regulatory and operational trust needed for future scaling of humanoid systems.
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