Humanoid robots like Digit and Apollo are expanding beyond Amazon warehouses

In brief: Amazon isn't the only company filling its warehouses with humanoid robots – much to the concern of real human workers. GXO Logistics, a global contract logistics company that provides supply chain services to businesses around the world, is also testing these autonomous machines in its facilities. GXO Logistics signed a multi-year agreement with Agility Robotics last year to begin deploying Digit in its operations. Digit, you may recall, is the 5-foot 9-inch, 140-pound humanoid robot that Amazon first introduced into its warehouses in 2023. Digit can walk forward, backward, and sideways, squat and bend, and move, grasp, and handle items using its arm/hand-like clasps. It also sports 360-degree lidar, camera, and other sensors for autonomous navigation and obstacle detection. Digit is working at the GXO-operated Spanx warehouse in Atlanta, where it moves heavy containers from a 6 River Systems robot to a conveyor belt. GXO is also in the process of testing robots from Appt ... Read full article.