Agility hits 100,000 cycles at Amazon

Agility Robotics’ claim that Digit has crossed 100,000 warehouse cycles matters because it shifts the discussion from staged demos to sustained throughput. The company first disclosed in November 2025 that Digit had moved more than 100,000 totes in a live commercial deployment at GXO’s Flowery Branch, Georgia, facility. Agility has also said Amazon began testing Digit in October 2023 for tote recycling at its robotics research and development facility south of Seattle. The social-media version of the story compresses several deployments into one headline. The underlying record is narrower but still notable: Agility has publicly tied the six-figure tote milestone to GXO, while Amazon has publicly confirmed testing Digit on repetitive tote-handling work. ### So what exactly hit 100,000? Agility Robotics said on November 20, 2025 that Digit had moved “over 100,000 totes” in live commercial deployment at GXO’s Flowery Branch facility. (agilityrobotics.com) The company presented that figure as a throughput benchmark for humanoid robots in logistics and said the work included picking items on and off an autonomous mobile robot to a conveyor and stacking totes onto a different floor location. That matters because “cycles” in warehouse robotics usually reduce to repeatable unit work — pick, carry, place, return — rather than a vague claim of hours in operation. Agility’s own wording is “100,000 totes,” not “100,000 cycles,” so the more precise formulation is that Digit completed more than 100,000 tote moves in a live warehouse deployment. ### Where does Amazon fit into this? Amazon said on October 18, 2023 that it was introducing Digit as part of a broader robotics push and that the robot would support workplace safety and speed in fulfillment operations. (agilityrobotics.com) Agility followed on October 24, 2023 by saying Amazon would begin testing Digit at its robotics research and development facility just south of Seattle. The first Amazon use case was specific. (agilityrobotics.com) Agility said Digit’s initial task at Amazon would be tote recycling — picking up and moving empty totes after inventory had been picked out of them. Emily Vetterick, identified by Agility as Amazon Director of Engineering, said there was “a big opportunity to scale a mobile manipulator solution” suited to buildings designed for humans. ### Why are tote moves the benchmark investors and operators watch? (aboutamazon.com) Warehouses already use fixed robotic arms and autonomous mobile robots, so a humanoid has to show it can do repetitive work for long stretches without becoming an expensive exception case. Agility said a robot that cannot maintain performance across thousands of cycles and varying conditions over an extended deployment is “a liability, not an asset.” (agilityrobotics.com) Amazon has framed the same problem in operational terms rather than humanoid terms. The company said in October 2023 that it already had more than 750,000 robots working with employees, and by June 2025 said it had deployed its millionth robot across operations. That backdrop matters because Digit is entering a network where automation is already measured by throughput, injury reduction and integration with existing tote-based workflows. (agilityrobotics.com) ### Does this mean humanoids are replacing warehouse workers? Agility and Amazon have both described Digit as a system for repetitive material-handling work rather than a general replacement for warehouse labor. Damion Shelton, Agility’s co-founder and chief executive, said in 2023 that the intended deployment was one that “enables humans to be more human,” while Amazon said collaborative robotics could support safety and create new career paths for employees. (aboutamazon.com) The task list also remains narrow. Agility’s public examples center on tote recycling, handoffs between mobile robots and conveyors, and stacking or relocating totes — all structured jobs inside existing logistics flows. ### What should readers watch next? Agility’s website now says Digit is deployed in manufacturing, distribution and logistics and lists Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada and Mercado Libre among commercial agreements announced in 2025 and 2026. (agilityrobotics.com) Amazon, for its part, continues to expand automation across its fulfillment network, where it said in 2025 that more than 1 million robots were already operating. The next useful disclosure will be a named site, a fresh throughput figure, or an update from Amazon on whether Digit has moved beyond testing near Seattle into broader operations. (agilityrobotics.com 1) (agilityrobotics.com 2)