UK Lags Behind in AI Adoption: Skills Gap and Lack of Support

The Transformative Impact of AI in Manufacturing 2025 🚀 🚀 The future of manufacturing is here—powered by Artificial Intelligence! 🤖 In 2025, AI is revolutionizing factory floors with game-changing innovations like predictive maintenance, smart quality control, and seamless automation. 🏭⚙️ 🔧 Thanks to AI, unexpected downtime is shrinking, costs are dropping, and productivity is skyrocketing! 📉💰 Meanwhile, AI-powered robots and process automation are taking repetitive tasks off human plates, letting teams focus on creativity and problem-solving. 🧠✨ 🌿 Sustainability is also getting a boost—AI is helping manufacturers cut waste and optimize energy use, making production greener and more efficient. 🌱💡 🤝 And it’s not just about machines—collaborative robots (cobots) are working hand-in-hand with people, combining precision with human ingenuity for smarter, safer workplaces. 👷♀️🤖 💡 Some manufacturing hubs in India are reporting productivity gains of over 20% thanks to AI adoption! 📈🇮🇳 To get a closer look at how AI and robotics are shaping the factory of the future, check out this insightful video: The Rise of AI in Factories https://lnkd.in/gefm-WRj 🎥 The era of human + AI collaboration is shaping an innovative, efficient, and sustainable manufacturing landscape. How is AI transforming your industry or workplace? Share your stories below! 👇 #AI #Industry4_0 #SmartManufacturing #Innovation #Sustainability #DigitalTwins #Cobots #FutureOfWork #Ashwinivaishnaw

It’s National Manufacturing Day 2025! Today, UK factories are opening their doors to schools, families and communities showcasing the people, skills and innovation driving this vital sector. Here’s how AI is powering the future of British manufacturing................ ✅Better quality with AI-driven inspections catching more defects, keeping products top notch. ⌚Less downtime with predictive maintenance spotting issues before they happen, saving time and money. 👩🎓Smarter productivity with data led insights boost output by up to 15%. 👷Workforce support with AI training tools upskilling teams and preserving expert know-how. 🌿Sustainable operations with real time energy monitoring, cuts waste and carbon footprints. The UK currently lags behind in robotics, but with AI we can close the gap, add billions to GDP, and create exciting new roles. Today’s tours aren’t just factory visits they’re a peek at a smarter, greener, more innovative manufacturing future. What AI innovation caught your eye? Share below! #Elev8AI #NationalManufacturingDay2025 #AI #SmartFactory #Innovation #UKManufacturing

China’s humanoids just hit scale. VLA power meets vertical data moats: - Robots move from lab demos to full commercial rollout   - Vision–Language–Action (VLA) models unlock unstructured tasks   - Retail and logistics deployments now number in the hundreds   - Data becomes the real moat—200+ points per parcel tracked   - Prices crash to $9.6k–$11k, matching Beijing worker wages   - Exports to Japan and Korea signal a global inflection  China’s humanoid revolution is no longer hype; it’s happening.  At the 2025 World Robot Conference, over 50 companies showcased humanoids not as curiosities, but as working systems. Think barista bots, warehouse sorters, and autonomous assistants—all running 24/7.  UBTECH’s Walker S2 now plugs directly into factory MES systems. LimX’s sub-$22k research humanoid democratizes access for universities. And in retail, Galaxy Universal’s “Galbot” handles everything from order to delivery, in multiple languages, inside themed cafés.  The economics? Brutal and beautiful. A humanoid that costs ¥70k–300k pays for itself within two years, half the cost of staffing a small service team in Beijing.  But the *real* edge isn’t hardware—it’s data.   Firms like Senad log 200+ metrics per parcel, feeding domain-specific VLA models that learn faster than competitors. That feedback loop: vertical data → smarter VLA → better robots—is forming a new kind of moat.  This mirrors China’s earlier hardware waves: drones, EVs, smartphones.   The same integration advantage, now in humanoids.  Expect a shakeout soon. Only players with real deployments and deep data pipelines will survive. But for those that do? 👉 The next 18 months will define who owns the era of embodied AI.   Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/ggXtY_Tk What’s your take—will humanoids replace or *redefine* service work?   #AI #Robotics #Automation #ChinaTech #FutureOfWork

🌐 Beyond the AI Boom: Where Investors Should Look Next Over the last five years, AI has dominated headlines and attracted unprecedented levels of capital. In 2023 alone, global investment in AI has reached gargantuan heights and is reshaping markets and entire industries. As we transition into the post-AI hype cycle, savvy investors are asking: what’s next? 📊 One clear frontier is robotics. According to the International Federation of Robotics, over 3.9 million industrial robots are already operating worldwide—a number expected to nearly double by 2030. This rapid adoption is being driven by: Labor shortages across manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare Efficiency gains, with automation reducing costs by up to 30% in key industries Resilience and reshoring, as companies bring production closer to home and lean on robotics for reliability. At Tresslers Group, we believe the post-AI investment era isn’t about abandoning artificial intelligence—it’s about recognizing how AI will serve as the brain, while robotics provides the hands that reshape our economy. ✅ Our guidance to investors: Diversify into sectors where robotics and AI converge—advanced manufacturing, warehouse automation, medical robotics, and precision agriculture. These markets are projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20%+ through the next decade. The future of investment isn’t just smart—it’s automated. #InvestmentStrategy #Robotics #AI #TresslersGroup #FutureofWork

AI will boost productivity, spark new ideas and create fields like robotics and biotech, driving global economic growth. Instead of leisure, expect more work as AI amplifies opportunities.

The EU’s new ‘Apply AI’ strategy marks a pivotal step in strengthening Europe’s technical sovereignty. By accelerating the development and adoption of European-built AI tools, the initiative aims to enhance security, resilience, and industrial competitiveness—with manufacturing identified as a key focus area. Backed by €1 billion in planned funding, it underscores AI’s growing role in driving innovation across the continent. At TDK Ventures, we’re already seeing this transformation through our portfolio companies redefining how #AI, #robotics, and #automation are shaping the future of manufacturing and supply chain operations. For example, our portfolio company ANYbotics is delivering robotic solutions that automate industrial inspections—improving uptime, reducing costs, and enhancing safety by keeping workers out of hazardous environments. This alignment between policy and innovation marks an exciting step forward, and we’re proud to help enable technologies that make industry smarter, safer, and more sustainable. 👉 Read more from Edith Hancock in The Wall Street Journal here: https://shorturl.at/k1v4p

Artificial Intelligence will reshape production sites — but not in the way most people think. It’s not just about “smart robots.” The real change lies in how we plan, decide, and optimize industrial processes. Future production systems will be self-learning, predictive, and interconnected. This doesn’t make humans obsolete — it makes human interpretation of data and decision-making more valuable than ever. For Europe, this is a massive opportunity: We have skilled engineers, strong mid-sized companies, and a culture of precision. Combining these strengths with AI-driven insights can make our manufacturing more productive, flexible, and sustainable. The question isn’t if AI will transform our factories — but how fast we adapt. What’s your take: will AI strengthen or disrupt Europe’s manufacturing base? #ArtificialIntelligence #Automation #Manufacturing #Innovation #Leadership #Industry40

🤖 Ericsson’s AI Robotic Dog: The Future of Rail Inspection Walks in At IMC 2025, Ericsson unveiled a surprising—but brilliant—use of AI and robotics: a robotic dog designed for automated railcar inspections. It’s a striking reminder that AI’s presence in industrial automation isn’t future talk—it’s happening now. 🔍 Why This Moment Caught My Imagination ✨ It turns caution into curiosity: a four-legged machine walking rails, scanning for faults, doing what humans used to do under tight safety margins. 🛤️ It’s not novelty—it’s utility. The design speaks to real-world constraints: mobility on uneven tracks, sensor integration, condition monitoring, alert generation. 🌱 It blends human intent with machine resilience. The goal isn’t substituting humans—it’s empowering them by taking over the mundane, hazardous, or repetitive tasks. 💬 The Human Story Behind the Machine This is a moment where technology becomes collaborator, not competitor. 👷♂️ For safety inspectors: imagine working alongside a trusted “canine” partner that reduces risk, speeds up checks, and frees you to focus on issues that truly need human judgement. 🏗️ For industrial teams: this kind of demonstration is proof that combining AI + robotics isn’t just for labs—it can be mission-critical, operational, scaled. 🧠 For innovators: it suggests that the most powerful automation is the one you invite in, not fear as a replacement. 👉 If you had this kind of robot watching rail, power lines, pipelines, or factories—what would be the first task you’d let it inspect? #Ericsson #Robotics #AI #IndustrialAutomation #Innovation #RailInspection #FutureOfWork #TechForGood #NeoSOFT #ArtificialIntelligence #Automation #AITrends #AI #HumanCenteredAI #Productivity #Innovation #AgenticAI  #RAG #GenerativeAI #LangChain #OpenAI #AIInnovation #Leadership #Entrepreneurship #VisionToExecution #LLM #VectorDatabases #AIProductDevelopment #FutureOfWork #LinkedInLearning #HuggingFace #DeepLearning #Healthcare #Chatbot #LangGraph #LangSmith #MCP #VectorDB #FAISS #ChromaDB #Pinecone #Weaviate #Qdrant #Recruitment #CareerTech #Nvidia #RubinCPX #K2Think #UAE #Oracle #CloudComputing #Stargate #LLMs #AIInfrastructure #TechTrends #ConversaTube #Whisper #YouTubeAI #ModelContextProtocol #AIArchitecture #TalentSphere #JobSeeker #HRTech #Jobs #Reskilling #Wearables #MetaConnect #LiveTech #ProductDesign #HumanAspect #FutureOfTech #Startups #India #Accelerator #MultimodalAI #ResponsibleAI #GoogleForStartups #H1B #Immigration #TechTalent #SkilledMigration #GlobalWorkforce #PolicyImpact #HumanCost #Meta #Infrastructure #Hardware #TechInnovation #FutureOfDevices #UX #Design #ConsumerTech #AmbientAI #HuaweiCloud #Developers #IndustrialAI #PanguModels #IndianIT #Upskilling #WorkforceTransformation #Semiconductors #Intel #FutureOfComputing #CPU #GPU #TechIndustry