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Scale robotics and advanced manufacturing through testbeds, Manufacturing USA, MEP modernization, safety standards, and worker training.
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Jul 6, 2026
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What is failing, what we would change, and the conclusion we are willing to defend.
The next industrial race is not only about what America invents. It is about what America can make, automate, repair, and improve at scale. Robotics, machine vision, additive manufacturing, digital twins, advanced materials, AI-enabled quality control, and flexible automation are becoming the operating system of production.
The International Federation of Robotics reported 542,000 industrial robot installations worldwide in 2024, with Asia accounting for most new deployments and China the largest market. The United States remains a major robot market, but it cannot treat automation as a threat to be delayed or a miracle that spreads by itself. It needs a deployment policy.
Expand Manufacturing USA institutes and create robotics-and-AI manufacturing testbeds where small and mid-sized manufacturers can trial automation before buying it.
Modernize the NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership so every state can help small and medium manufacturers adopt robotics, cybersecurity, quality systems, digital twins, and advanced materials.
Use tax credits, loan guarantees, and accelerated depreciation for productivity-enhancing equipment only when firms pair adoption with worker training, safety plans, and job-quality reporting.
Build national standards for human-robot collaboration, machine vision, safety validation, cybersecurity, interoperability, and data portability in factory systems.
Fund technician pipelines for robot maintenance, controls, mechatronics, metrology, industrial cybersecurity, additive manufacturing, and quality assurance.
Require federally supported automation projects to publish productivity, safety, wage, employment, energy, and reshoring outcomes.
This is not nostalgia for smokestacks, and it is not automation for its own sake. The party's position is that a country that cannot deploy modern production technology cannot sustain an innovation economy. The factories have to learn too.
Turn frustration into useful pressure.
If this position misses evidence or a lived consequence, challenge it. If it holds up, help test it locally and connect it to the issues around it.