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NEW YORK — As U.S. manufacturers look to implement artificial intelligence and robotics on their shop floors, they are being held back by issues related to workforce, systems and leadership, not the technology itself, experts said.
“We don’t have a technology problem in the United States,” said Paul Lavoie, vice president of innovation and applied technology at the University of New Haven. “We have a technology adoption problem. We don’t know how to get things done quickly and how to get things done well in America.”
Lavoie and robotics startup executives discussed during a roundtable at New York City’s Tech Week on June 2 some of the challenges facing manufacturers as they look to automate operations and overcome certain barriers to adoption.
Other countries, such as China and South Korea, are ahead of the United States when it comes to automation, driven partially by their national robotics strategies, speakers said. They also have more mature service provider and integrator markets that can help manufacturers deploy robotics quickly and successfully.
