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  • Plan for humanoid robot shipyard workers.
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    Plan for humanoid robot shipyard workers.
    Ferrari Press Agency
    Welding robots 1
    Ref 16829
    19/05/2025
    See Ferrari text
    Picture MUST credit: Persona AI
    A startup robotics company has signed a deal to provide humanoid shipyard workers.
    The robots will be capable of performing complex welding tasks.
    US-based Persona AI will lead the development of hardware and AI-based control and learning.
    A spokesperson explained: “Shipyards report attrition rates of 20–22% among average workers, with critical trades experiencing rates as high as 30% or more.
    “Additionally, recruitment programs have struggled to retain new hires, with reports indicating that 50–60% of first-year shipyard employees leave within their first year.
    “Persona’s purpose-built humanoids have the dexterity and toughness to execute critical shipbuilding tasks so that humans don’t have to.”
    Co-founder and CEO Nicolaus Radford, a former NASA employee, has previously declared: “Humanoids are the holy grail of all robotics.
    "It's what every science fiction writer's always dreamed about.”
    OPS: Render of planned Persona AI robots. The company eventually sees their robots branching out to a rangee of jobs, not just welding.

    Picture supplied by Ferrari
    (FOTO: DUKAS/FERRARI PRESS)

     

  • Plan for humanoid robot shipyard workers.
    DUKAS_184965077_FER
    Plan for humanoid robot shipyard workers.
    Ferrari Press Agency
    Welding robots 1
    Ref 16829
    19/05/2025
    See Ferrari text
    Picture MUST credit: Persona AI
    A startup robotics company has signed a deal to provide humanoid shipyard workers.
    The robots will be capable of performing complex welding tasks.
    US-based Persona AI will lead the development of hardware and AI-based control and learning.
    A spokesperson explained: “Shipyards report attrition rates of 20–22% among average workers, with critical trades experiencing rates as high as 30% or more.
    “Additionally, recruitment programs have struggled to retain new hires, with reports indicating that 50–60% of first-year shipyard employees leave within their first year.
    “Persona’s purpose-built humanoids have the dexterity and toughness to execute critical shipbuilding tasks so that humans don’t have to.”
    Co-founder and CEO Nicolaus Radford, a former NASA employee, has previously declared: “Humanoids are the holy grail of all robotics.
    "It's what every science fiction writer's always dreamed about.”
    OPS: Render of planned Persona AI robots. The company eventually sees their robots branching out to a rangee of jobs, not just welding.

    Picture supplied by Ferrari
    (FOTO: DUKAS/FERRARI PRESS)

     

  • Plan for humanoid robot shipyard workers.
    DUKAS_184965075_FER
    Plan for humanoid robot shipyard workers.
    Ferrari Press Agency
    Welding robots 1
    Ref 16829
    19/05/2025
    See Ferrari text
    Picture MUST credit: Persona AI
    A startup robotics company has signed a deal to provide humanoid shipyard workers.
    The robots will be capable of performing complex welding tasks.
    US-based Persona AI will lead the development of hardware and AI-based control and learning.
    A spokesperson explained: “Shipyards report attrition rates of 20–22% among average workers, with critical trades experiencing rates as high as 30% or more.
    “Additionally, recruitment programs have struggled to retain new hires, with reports indicating that 50–60% of first-year shipyard employees leave within their first year.
    “Persona’s purpose-built humanoids have the dexterity and toughness to execute critical shipbuilding tasks so that humans don’t have to.”
    Co-founder and CEO Nicolaus Radford, a former NASA employee, has previously declared: “Humanoids are the holy grail of all robotics.
    "It's what every science fiction writer's always dreamed about.”
    OPS: Render of planned Persona AI robots. The company eventually sees their robots branching out to a rangee of jobs, not just welding.

    Picture supplied by Ferrari
    (FOTO: DUKAS/FERRARI PRESS)

     

  • Mono Negative
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    Mono Negative
    NEW PLATES FOR ' WASHINGTON '

    Pictured here in the NO.6 drydock at Southampton welders repairing plates on the bow of the United States liner ' Washington' (29, 627 tons ). The liner split her bow when she hit the quay wall in Friday's Gale at Southampton.
    5 February 1950 (FOTO:DUKAS/TOPFOTO)

    TopFoto