US robot companies, including Tesla and Boston Dynamics, warn that without the national strategy ‘now not only the Robotics race, but also the AI race’
US robotics companies are committed toNational robotics strategyincluding establishing a federal office focused on the promotion of the industry at the time whenChinamakes intelligent robots a national priority.
Companies representatives – including TeslaBoston Dynamics and Agility Robotics – On Wednesday they met with legislators at Capitol Hill to show products and encourage the United States toAdopt politicsThis would increase US companies in the global race for the development of the next generation of robots.
Jeff Cardenas, co -founder and executive director of Humanoid Startup Appronik from Austin in Texas, said the lawyers that it was an American car manufacturer General Motors This scheduled the first industrial robot at the Mounting Factory in New Jersey in 1961. But now they have given their early lead to Japan, which is still an industrial robotics power plant, along with Europe.
The next robotics race will be launched by artificial intelligence and will be “anyone to win,” Cardenas said in an interview after a closed door meeting. “I think they have a great chance of winning now. Let’s take the Ai -Ui I think we are building some of the best robots in the world. But we need a national strategy if we continue to build and stay forward.”
The Advanced Automation Association said the national strategy will help US companies scallic production and trigger the adoption of robots as the “physical manifestation” of AI. The group made it clear that China and several other countries already have a plan.
Without that leadership, “now it will not only lose the robotics race, but also the AI race,” the association states.
The group also suggested tax incentives to assist in adoption, together with training programs and funding of federal funds for academic research and commercial innovation. The new Federal Office of Robotics, the Association claims, is partly necessary because of “increasing global competition in space”, as well as the “growing sophistication” technology.
The envoy of Raja Krishnamoorthi, Democrat of Illinois, said he believed they were now in the game, but that the Chinese companies were “very good” and that China “devotes a lot of resources very quickly.”
“So, we have to maintain our innovation and maintain our culture of entrepreneurship,” Krishnamoorti said.
Jonathan Chen, car manager Teslin Optimus Engineering, who develops a humanoid robot for which Elon Musk Executive Director Hope will be sent to Mars one day, said the production opportunities will be key to national competition. “Create robots, the question is who will increase them?” Said Chen.
China is the world’s largest robot market working in factories and other industrial environments, with about 1.8 million robots in 2023, to the German International Federation of Robotics.
Robotics manufacturers in Japan and Europe are still dominated by the global market of the Hulking Factory Robot, although the share of Chinese manufacturers on its domestic market has grown to about half, according to the IFR.
It can be harder to monitor the progress of emerging robots, such as humanoid or animal -like robots, because they are not yet very commercialized. Pionir Robotics Boston Dynamics based in Massachusetts, now owned by the South Korean car manufacturer Hyundairelying on US military support for their first few decades of agile robots that can crawl and walk.
China now aims to integrate robotics with other emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, as the country positions humanoid robots as border technology and has approved a state -of -risk capital fund in the amount of $ 138 billion to focus on robotics, AI and other top innovation.
Earlier this year, the state emiter presented dance robots on the annual Chinese New Year’s Gala. The Humanoid Robot Army by the Chinese Unitree robotics company, a rival in Boston’s dynamics, waving weapons and a handkerchief, enhancing national pride that China has reached large steps in the development of humanoid robots to rise to those in the United States.
In an annual work report, Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang said the country will prioritize the combination of digital technologies and production and market forces in the country, including the development of intelligent robots along with connected electric vehicles.
And in the USA and in China, humanoid robots that combine artificial intelligence with a body like human attracted public interest. But they also call skepticism from some that follow the robotics industry.
“We don’t like humanoid robots because they are stupid,” said Bill Ray, an analyst based in the UK for market research Gartner. “They look fantastic, but they’re not very practical.”
Instead, Ray is looking for more use of what he describes as “polyphurctional robots”, such as wheels that can pick up and wear heavy packages through the airports, but do not look like people at all. He does not think that the support of the Government will bring a big difference in which the country takes over the lead.
“In the political climate we do not expect to see the fleets of Chinese robots working in American factories or the fleets of American robots working in Chinese factories,” Ray said. “I think it’s given.”
Cardenas, whose company and his robot Apollo support technological giants Nvidia and GoogleHe said that a national strategy in the United States could help stimulate robot adoption, promoting the education of new generations of robotics and scientists.
“Humanoids will play a big role and practically recording the imagination of the public,” Cardenas said.
This story is originally shown on Fortune.com
