Welcome to the April 2025, Edition #37of This Is Robotics.

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For April’s edition of This Is Robotics, we’ll look at the high-tech drama from Korea as it unfolds a nationwide plan for robot-driven automation for the entire country. Only the second industrialized nation to devise and execute such a massive plan; China, and it’s Made in China 2025, was the first.

We’ll also introduce you to our newest program sponsor, ANSCER Robotics, the small company with a big idea, and its plans following its arrival in the Americas in March for ProMat 2025 in Chicago.

We’ll also attend a white house ceremony for the Executive Order creating the country’s action plan for its very-first upskilling, training, and plans for one million apprenticeships, which could lead to a nationwide new age GI Bill for every citizen, something we’ve been writing about since 2015.

We’ll then take a look through the eyes of Ken Maken, CEO of Workr Labs with his article titled “Why Physical AI Is the Missing Link in Manufacturing Robotics.”

And then we’ll follow up with Yann LeCun’s ideas on physical AI, and why he thinks that today’s LLMs are trapped by Internet data, and offer far less of a future for all robots, including humanoid robots.

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