GXO signs industry-first multi-year agreement with Agility Robotics

Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) agreement integrates Agility’s Humanoid robots with other cobots at SPANX facility

GXO Logistics, Inc. (NYSE: GXO), the world’s largest pure-play contract logistics provider, and Agility Robotics, creator of the leading bipedal Mobile Manipulation Robot (MMR) Digit®, announced today that they have signed a multi-year agreement to begin deploying Digit in GXO’s logistics operations. This agreement, which follows a proof-of-concept pilot in late 2023, is both the industry’s first formal commercial deployment of humanoid robots and first Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) deployment of humanoid robots.

“We’re building on the success of last year’s groundbreaking pilot with Agility by deploying fully operational Digit humanoids into a live warehouse environment,” said Adrian Stoch, Chief Automation Officer, GXO. “Our R&D approach is to partner with developers all over the world to help them build and validate practical use cases that improve the working environment for our employees while optimizing operations for our customers. Agility shares this philosophy, and Digit is the perfect addition to work alongside our people in our fulfillment center. We’re delighted to progress our partnership through this critical milestone.”

As part of the RaaS agreement, GXO is deploying Digit robots and Agility Arc™, Agility’s cloud automation platform for deploying and managing Digit fleets. Digit is a multi-purpose, human-centric robot made for logistics work, and designed to work safely in human spaces and help with a variety of repetitive tasks. Agility Arc is designed to simplify the deployment lifecycle, from facility mapping and workflow definition to operational management and troubleshooting. 

In the SPANX facility, Agility’s solutions integrate with existing automation, including Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs). Expanding on last year’s pilot, Digit robots are assisting with repetitive tasks such as moving totes from cobots and placing them onto conveyors, all orchestrated through Agility Arc. Under the RaaS agreement, the companies will continue to explore additional use cases and scale Digit usage to meet demand throughout the deployment. To see Digit in action at GXO, watch this.

“There will be many firsts in the humanoid robot market in the years to come, but I’m extremely proud of the fact that Agility is the first with actual humanoid robots deployed at a customer site, generating revenue, and solving real-world business problems,” said Peggy Johnson, CEO, Agility Robotics. “Agility has always been focused on the only metric that matters – delivering value to our customers by putting Digit to work – and this milestone deployment raises the bar for the entire industry.”

Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine (SDCE) recently recognized GXO as the overall winner of the 2024 Top Supply Chain Projects awards for its groundbreaking pilot with Digit. 

A proposito di GXO Logistics 

GXO Logistics, Inc. (NYSE: GXO) è il più grande provider pure-player di contract logistics del mondo e sta beneficiando della rapida crescita dell'e-commerce, dell'automazione e dell'outsourcing. GXO è impegnata a fornire un ambiente di lavoro diversificato e di prim’ordine per circa 130.000 dipendenti in più di 970 depositi per un totale di circa 18,5 milioni di metri quadrati. L'azienda collabora con le principali aziende blue-chip del mondo per risolvere complesse sfide logistiche con soluzioni tecnologicamente avanzate di supply chain ed ecommerce, scalabili e veloci. La sede centrale di GXO è a Greenwich, Connecticut, USA. Visitate GXO.com per maggiori informazioni e collegatevi con GXO su LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Instagram e  YouTube. 

Informazioni su Agility Robotics

Con sede centrale a Corvallis, in Oregon, e uffici a Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, e a Palo Alto, in California, la missione di Agility Robotics è costruire partner robotici che aumentino la forza lavoro umana, consentendo agli uomini di essere più umani. Digit, l'innovativo robot bipede di Agility, è il primo robot multiuso incentrato sull'uomo e fatto per il lavoro™. 

Forward-Looking Statements

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