AI for Robotics and Manufacturing | GTC Live Washington, D.C. Chapter 5

Hello, and welcome to a special GTC edition of the NVIDIA AI podcast. This is the fifth and final of our episodes on the road to GTC live in Washington DC, conversations you won't hear anywhere else about the state of AI across industries and from different perspectives. It's a great series, so be sure to give the first four episodes a listen. Now we're delving into the world of robotics and manufacturing with a group of industry pioneers discussing how the boundary between digital intelligence and physical action is disappearing. Robotics and automation are turning insight into production, and we're about to find out how. Enjoy the conversation and subscribe to the AI podcast for new interviews from the leading edge of AI every week. The physical world is becoming programmable, and this fusion of intelligence and industry is creating new types of factories, new jobs, and a more resilient manufacturing base. The leaders driving that transformation join us now. First, we have Peter Kurta, chief technology officer and chief strategy officer at Siemens AG. We have Yong Liu, chairman and CEO at Foxconn. We have Brett Adcock, founder and CEO, FigureAI, and we have Aki Jain, president and CTO, Palantir US government. So great to see everybody here. So, Young, I I wanna ask you the first question. First of all, my relationship with Foxconn goes back, to 1995, And I don't know if they call that experienced or old, but you are one of the biggest manufacturer for all precision goods, from smartphones to hyperscale or data center equipment and pretty much everything in between. Talk to me how AI and robotics is transforming what Foxconn does. Okay. First of all, thank you for having me here. This is a very great event for technology companies these days. Now, Foxconn is the largest, manufacturer in the ICT industry. And, we, you know, used to be very much labor intensive. And then we transform it to, automation intensive. With new generative AI technologies, we think the AI intensive, you know, manufacturing is coming. And, with this new technology, this new and disruptive, we will have to work with industrial leaders or technology leaders Yeah. Like Nvidia, Siemens, and the friends at this table together, you know, to be able to catch up and apply the new technologies to our manufacturing, you know, facilities. And, currently, you know, we are doing, we are building up factories, you know, here in The States in, Ohio, Texas, Wisconsin, and California. And we think, you know, the AI era is coming, and I call this industrial five point o. That's excellent. Peter, your company is known for being in all of the connective tissue inside of manufacturing, And I'm curious, how is AI making manufacturing in United States more competitive? Because that's a big talk, particularly here in Washington DC, And quite frankly, it has a lot to do with, and Brad pointed this out in an earlier segment, even national security. …