{"id":386910,"date":"2026-04-19T06:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/386910\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T06:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:53:16","slug":"kawasaki-heavy-to-develop-shipbuilding-ai-robot-amid-welder-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/386910\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawasaki Heavy to develop shipbuilding AI robot amid welder shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/technology\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Switch from manual labor seen improving productivity and safety<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20260418N Kawasaki Heavy robot\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Kawasaki Heavy will look to apply technology from its Corleo\u00a0quadrupedal robot to the\u00a0shipbuilding robot. (Photo by Eisaku Nitta)<\/p>\n<p>EISAKU NITTA and SHOKO KUGAI<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Kawasaki Heavy Industries is developing an AI-equipped shipbuilding robot that would double welding productivity and help address a technician shortage in the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Technology Switch from manual labor seen improving productivity and safety Kawasaki Heavy will look to apply technology from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,28642,6559,91030,111,139,69,5149,70548,14182,145,200456],"class_list":{"0":"post-386910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-develop","12":"tag-heavy","13":"tag-kawasaki","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-robot","18":"tag-shipbuilding","19":"tag-shortage","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-welder"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}