Korthos reports Aitu's Annie sewing humanoid is starting work in garment factories, a use case where fabric grip is one of the harder problems for robots. Worker-count claims in the coverage are company-reported. Useful as a real sewing-cell trial, not a finished proof.
Glendale, Arizona city council approved Project Eagle: a data center paired with a 700 MW natural gas plant using 18 turbines. Same pattern as Alberta and Ohio: the plant comes with the data center.
A Section 232 proclamation finds that imports of robotics and industrial machinery threaten national security but sets no tariffs yet. Commerce and USTR have 180 days to negotiate and report. Anyone buying robots or machine tools for a 2027 project should price this risk in now.
Honeywell Aerospace will build a $500 million, 300,000-square-foot plant on its Tempe campus, opening late 2028 with about 600 jobs. The site will use modular robotics, automated inspection, digital twins and a digital thread, and will add in-house complex machining because that supply base is constrained. This is aerospace manufacturing, not the Forge software platform.