Humanoids are earning more floor space this Monday as Agility and GXO expand Digit to new warehouses, while researchers push the same body plan up ladders and onto fingertips. Elsewhere, autonomous drones race themselves, firmware gets a tune-up, and combat robots try on a decidedly hairy defense.

In today’s roundup

• Agility and GXO Logistics plan expanded deployment of Digit humanoid — The Robot Report
  After trialing humanoids from several vendors, GXO is doubling down on Digit at two more sites — a telling vote of confidence in real warehouse deployment.
• Agility Robotics expands GXO Logistics deal to deploy Digit humanoid in more facilities — Automated Warehouse
  The expanded robotics-as-a-service deal brings Digit to two additional U.S. facilities, showing the subscription model may be how humanoids actually scale.
• Remānguys from Tallinn reaches the final of Anduril’s AI Grand Prix, a world race of drones that fly themselves — sUAS News
  A three-person team from Tallinn and Prague placed 9th out of over 3,000, a reminder that self-flying drone autonomy is a genuinely global contest.
• Crockford’s First Law of Bureaucratic Innovation — sUAS News
  A wry meditation on the optimism-bordering-on-delusion that innovation demands, and how bureaucracy tends to meet it.
• Robots in Society, Business and Culture: September 2026 — Robohub
  Robohub's monthly roundup opens with a robotic hand that walks on its own fingers, blurring the line between manipulation and locomotion.
• Humanoid robot tackles ladders and obstacles with 92.5% simulation success — Interesting Engineering
  ETH Zurich's control approach lets a humanoid climb ladders and clear obstacles with 92.5% success in simulation, nudging legged robots toward messier real-world terrain.
• Autel EVO Lite 640T and 6K drones get a new update — DroneDJ
  Autel's firmware refresh for the EVO Lite Enterprise series underscores that a compact drone's working life is defined as much by software as hardware.
• Hairy Armor For Combat Robot? It’s Not Terrible! — Hackaday Robots
  Maker's Muse tests whether bristly armor can blunt spinning weapons in the combat arena — and the surprising answer is it's not terrible.

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