The U.S. faces a growing shortage of skilled welders, creating one of the biggest challenges confronting naval shipbuilding and American manufacturing. In this episode of Mission Critical, host Ryan Robertson examines how HII’s High-Yield Production Robotics (HYPR) program is combining artificial intelligence, autonomous robotics and advanced manufacturing to help solve the problem.

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