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The Deployment Gap

$5 billion invested. 13,000 humanoid robots shipped. Fewer than 200 outside China are doing productive work. A company-by-company scorecard.

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Mar 02, 2026
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The Robot Renaissance isn’t measured in press releases. It’s measured in deployment hours. This week, we count them.

In a warehouse outside Atlanta, Georgia, a robot named Digit picks up a plastic tote, pivots, and places it on a conveyor belt.

It has done this more than 100,000 times.

The warehouse belongs to GXO Logistics, the world’s largest pure-play c…

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