Agility Robotics, creator of the Digit bipedal humanoid mobile manipulation robot (MMR), and pure-play contract logistics provider GXO Logistics, Inc. announced today that they have signed a multi-year agreement to begin deploying Digit in GXO’s logistics operations.
The companies claim their agreement is both the industry’s first formal commercial deployment of humanoid robots and first robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) deployment of humanoid robots.
The agreement follows a proof-of-concept pilot in late 2023 at GXO’s warehouse for global women’s apparel retail brand SPANX outside Atlanta, Ga.
“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, GXO Chief Automation Officer. “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.”
Digit integrates with AMR cobots at SPANX Atlanta omnichannel warehouse
As part of the RaaS agreement, GXO is deploying Digit robots along with Agility Arc, the robot provider’s cloud automation platform for deploying and managing Digit fleets.
Agility said its 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 omnichannel distribution center, Agility’s solutions integrated with existing automation, including collaborative robot (cobot) 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.
“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, Agility Robotics CEO. “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.”
Digit takes on repetitive tasks for GXO
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