GXO will put Agility's Digit humanoids into e-commerce sites in Statesville, North Carolina and Lebanon, Tennessee starting in early 2027, after Digit moved more than 100,000 totes at its Flowery Branch, Georgia site. It is a rare humanoid story past the pilot: a 3PL adding sites because the first one paid off.
After the FCC added foreign-produced industrial robots to its covered list this summer, it granted Intel a one-year waiver on Oct. 22 to keep maintaining and updating imported AGVs. Intel said there are no proven domestic alternatives and replacing them could take years. Any plant running imported robots now has a compliance question, and this is one waiver path.
Honeywell launched Forge Plant Cognition, an AI platform built with NVIDIA and Dell, first at Dangote's Lekki refinery to find bottlenecks, tune throughput and yield and flag equipment problems early. Honeywell's preliminary estimate is more than 29 cents a barrel, or over $60 million a year gross at full capacity, before implementation costs and not guaranteed. A named refinery and a per-barrel number is what refinery managers will read.
Mitsubishi Power will put $490 million into its Savannah Machinery Works in Pooler, Georgia, adding 450,000 square feet and more than 220 jobs. MHI's large-frame turbine backlog is 35 GW, up from 23 GW a year earlier, with recent orders set for delivery between 2028 and 2030. The turbine queue is a real limit on new power, and this is how long the fix takes.