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HII Partners with GrayMatter Robotics to Deploy AI in Shipbuilding
Ep. 21 07:51

HII Partners with GrayMatter Robotics to Deploy AI in Shipbuilding

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About This Episode

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) is partnering with GrayMatter Robotics to integrate autonomous AI robots into shipyard production floors, driven by a shrinking skilled workforce and defense production urgency for the U.S. Navy. The partnership aims to increase shipbuilding throughput and marks a significant deployment of industrial AI in the defense sector.

Our Take

America's shipyards can't find enough skilled welders to build the Navy's fleet — so the Pentagon's biggest shipbuilder is replacing them with robots, making the Labor Cliff a literal national security crisis and forcing the question: when robots build our warships, what happens to the blue-collar workers who built America?