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Great Matter Robotics and autonomous robotic systems manufacturing companies signing a memorandum of understanding with America's largest domestic shipbuilder to integrate its physical AI into the countries domestic shipbuilding operations. This new partnership with Huntington Ingalls Industries will help meet the growing demands of the US Navy on the global stage. I want to bring in Gray Matter Robotics CEO Arianna Kabir. Kabir, excuse me, Ariana, thank you so much for being here. Congratulations on this. This is really amazing. You're joining us from your facility in Carson, CA Tell us more about this because you to see obviously what the what the conflict in Iran right now, but also just the fact that we have heard President Trump say he wants to bring American ships back to the forefront, back into that leadership position. How are you part of that? Thanks for having me. As you know, demands for physical goods are soaring. On the other hand, the skilled workforce in manufacturing is shrinking down pretty much on a daily basis. And shipbuilding is 1 critical component for our national security. One of the major critical components for our national security just within the Siberian industrial base, we have 5 million skilled manner or short today. And we just launched this partnership with Huntington Ingalls Industries, the nation's largest shipbuilder. They make all the aircraft carriers, submarines, destroyers. They're also launching unmanned vessels. If you look at manufacturing all these components, it goes through a range of tool manipulation problems, very complex and very tedious and ergonomically challenging tasks, grinding, blasting, coating, inspection, painting, you name it. And there is not enough skilled workers anymore in the US to do those jobs. At Grimmett Robotics, we are developing physical eye that's augmenting our workforce, that's giving them the productivity to become 10X20X50X more productive to perform all these operations hand in hand. So we delivered this solutions at the factories. Where we create this optimal teaming between humans, robots and AI to boost productivity from the same footprint and help help the manufacturers bring their costs down. So with Huntington Ingalls Industries, we are building the next generation shipyard with an approach of autonomy first and creating that optimal human robot in AI orchestration. Now these aren't we're not just talking about military ships, we're also talking about cargo ships, correct. With Huntington Ingles Industries, it's mostly the military sheets that we're focused on. But in general, yes, agreement to robotics, we are working across many different industries, aerospace, national security, maritime, shipbuilding and many other manufacturing industries because as you know like we have to, we have to make sure our whole industrial base is supported as a whole. I mean there are 70,000 manufacturers in the US out of them that you know, top 159, they have a $3.2 trillion collective backlog, which is. Which is such a critical situation for us. And out of that $3.2 trillion backlog, $2 trillion is related to national security. So at Grimmer Robotics, we are delivering the physical intelligence layer for our factories to breach that gap. We are bringing factories super intelligence to our US manufacturers and their allies. This technology could go into so many different pieces of building. I mean, we could, this could be, I would assume you mentioned aerospace. I'm, I'm thinking drones. You know, there's so many ways that your technology I think could boost just munitions. Really, munitions building. But exactly this is what I think is so important, and I want people to get this, is that the US moving to advance in shipbuilding capabilities makes our Navy assets more technologically sound through AI and in full autonomy. But this is really important during the conflict because I was looking at this comment, this is from the International Federation Robotics compared with Asia, and I'm actually pointing to China here, the United States has been incredibly slow to integrate robotics into the manufacturing process. You've talked about this before on our network with regards to the ports and how the Chinese ports themselves are mainly using robotics. And then in the United States, we pretty much do the opposite. Give me your thoughts on that and how important this is for national security. You hit the, you hit it head on. I mean this is so critical. If you look at the, if you look at the stats right between World War 2 until now tonnage wise, the amount of ship US has produced, China has produced more than that just in the last 12 months. So that's the gap between our between the capacity and the pace at which China is moving forward. So in the US at Ravenna Robotics and you know there are other robotics organizations, all of us are collectively focusing on how do we augment our workforce, how do we build that capacity so that we can revive. Vitalize our industrial base. So there's an reindustrialization movement that we are part of to bring that capacity back. And you know as you know manufacturing is upstream of everything else. You stop making parts, you cannot sell them, you cannot run services, you cannot run any advertisements. It's a cascading catastrophic effect on our whole economy and it has to be brought into the manufacturing world, has to build up the capacity across the all the industry segments. Let it be building fire trucks that we're building more ambulances, let me building more ships missiles as you mentioned. Definition, so on and so forth. And the holistic ecosystem, that's what we're focused on. We're building that factory intelligence, factory super intelligence to power our entire industrial base. When you've got people like Senator Bernie Sanders, who actually has not been on foxnews.com this morning about how AI is coming for the workforce of America, how AI is coming for jobs in America and really around the world, how do you address that? Because it sounds to me like 1 of the things that you're doing is combining the human worker with the AI technology, but address those fears. Because I'm sure that you heard the same kind of rhetoric on many days. In, in reality, it's a, it's a workforce augmentation, right? If you really look at it right, there's not enough skilled worker to do those jobs anymore. Just in the, in the, you know, ammunition industrial base, we have about $90 billion of backlog. Just in the shipbuilding, we have close to $100 billion of backlog and there's not enough skilled worker to do those jobs anymore. And what we're doing is that we are creating this technology that augments the human workforce. We leverage the human ingenuity and the creativity where we are the best at, right, in decision making, sharing the visions and running. Was creative processes and we augment that with industrial robots autonomous industrial robots that can be that can deliver now superhuman performance anywhere from 4X12X to 50X more productivity but also the other aspect to it is that some of these operations grinding, blasting, coating you know these are so tedious and so are genomically challenging on the human body humans don't want to do those jobs anymore rightfully so some of these folks who do this skill trade for three years five years, eight years they start getting. Well, Donald, shoulder injury, back injury, respiratory problems and whatnot. And once we deliver some of these autonomous robots as a, as a sidekick, as an assistant, as a smart assistant to our workforce, they start lobbying it. Some of our end users, some of these shuffler operators, they have come back to our engineers after like 3 or 4 weeks of using the robot. And they've even shared their personal stories. They have shared that they can now go back home, play with their kids, their body doesn't hurt anymore. And those are some of the powerful impacts that we're contributing to and that we're excited about. Contributing to for our society. Yeah, I, I know. I think that's a great message because we've had this conversation so much. Ariana Kabir, thank you so much. Congratulations on the partnership. Really appreciate it. Thank you for having me, alright?