Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic From cars to iPhones to semiconductors, bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US is a cornerstone of Donald Trump\u2019s economic agenda.As the country\u2019s factories struggle to find workers, with half a million jobs remaining unfilled in March, the Trump administration and some executives have envisaged robots taking up the slack. Industry experts, however, are sceptical. Manufacturers are facing an uncertain economic climate, but the significant time, cost and the shortages of technically skilled workers are barriers to a rapid acceleration in automation. \u201cCompanies can\u2019t pivot on a dime,\u201d said Ken Goldberg, a robotics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and chief scientist at US-based Ambi Robotics.Cost is the biggest obstacle. While the price of industrial robots is rapidly declining, driven by Chinese manufacturers, a lower-priced type known as a \u201ccobot\u201d still retails for between $25,000 and $50,000. The robot is also just a fraction of the expense of integrating automation into a factory. A robot that stacks goods on to pallets can cost up to $150,000 to install when sensors, safety fencing, conveyors and other infrastructure are taken into account, according to Jorg Hendrikx, chief executives of robotics marketplace Qviro.Such costs put robotics out of the reach of many US manufacturers. Just 20 per cent of factories with between 50 and 150 employees have a robot, half the rate of those with more than 1,000 staff, according to the US Census Bureau. Manufacturers are also constrained by the types of goods they produce, with robots often less economical in sectors where products change frequently, because of the required reprogramming or reconfiguration. Two in five industrial robots in the US are in the automotive sector, where lines often churn out the same high-value model year after year.Large upfront capital expenditures, including in new facilities, will probably become less popular as the US\u2019s economic outlook becomes more uncertain after Trump\u2019s sweeping tariffs.\u201cA lot of businesses are going to put investments on hold, because you don\u2019t know what the situation down the road will look like,\u201d said Carl Benedikt Frey, a professor of AI and work at the Oxford Internet Institute. \u201cIf you want to spend [on] automation, you need to be sure that this is a strategy that goes over many, many years,\u201d said Susanne Bieller, general secretary of the International Federation of Robotics, which represents the industry. Increased tariffs would be a \u201chuge burden\u201d for US companies seeking to purchase robots, she added. America relies on imports for finished robots and key components as all of the leading manufacturers, such as Switzerland\u2019s ABB, Sino-German KUKA and Fanuc in Japan, are located outside of the US. Experts are also critical of the \u201call-stick-and-no-carrot\u201d approach the administration has taken to reshoring. \u201cTariffs are punitive,\u201d said Melonee Wise, chief product officer at humanoid robot maker Agility Robotics. \u201cI don\u2019t think that we\u2019ll start seeing any kind of shift [to automation] without large or definitive incentivisation.\u201d Both China and South Korea have seen robot adoption surge well past the US as a result of huge government backing such as tax credits, subsidies and nationwide initiatives, such as Made in China 2025.The US government has invested about $6bn in robotics R&D between 2018 and 2022, according to Public Spend Forum, a government research platform. However, it lacks a national robotics strategy and federal scientific research budgets are being slashed by the Trump administration. Despite the hype around humanoid robots and those which will \u201cself-learn\u201d through integrated AI, these technologies were off the sophistication and price point where they could be widely deployed, said Bieller.Increased automation will accelerate the need for workers with the skills to install and work with robotics, such as programming, systems design, engineering and maintenance, which are in global shortage.\u201cManufacturers are struggling to hire qualified workers,\u201d said Catherine Ross, a workforce development expert at the Association for Manufacturing Technology. \u201cThe education pipeline isn\u2019t producing enough talent to meet industry needs.\u201dIt was common for factories to have a \u201crobot graveyard\u201d where equipment had been mothballed because of a lack of expertise to upkeep it, said Saman Farid, chief executive and founder of \u201crobotics-as-a-service\u201d provider Formic.Another complication for employers is the widespread labour union pushback against automation.Unions representing workers as varied as delivery drivers, hotel staff and grocery store cashiers have increasingly fought to get provisions limiting the use of robots in their workplaces or requiring payouts to displaced workers. Dockworkers represented by the International Longshoremen\u2019s Association went on strike at three dozen US ports over automation last year, costing the US economy billions.\u00a0While proponents of automation says the trend is inevitable due to the lack of labour, they still warn that it is a long way off. \u201cI think it\u2019s really important to set expectations\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009[robots are] not going to be able to do a lot of tasks in the near future,\u201d Goldberg said. \u201cIt\u2019s a very hard problem.\u201d Additional reporting by Taylor Nicole Rogers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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