America\u2019s largest shipbuilder HII has signed a memorandum of understanding with California-based GrayMatter Robotics to explore integrating AI-driven robotic systems into its shipbuilding operations, the company stated.<\/p>\n
The agreement covers four areas of potential collaboration: autonomous shipbuilding capability development, integration of GrayMatter\u2019s technologies with existing shipbuilding initiatives, workforce training for automation, and scaling unmanned system production. The partnership would initially focus on bringing autonomous surface preparation, coating, and inspection technologies into shipyard processes.<\/p>\n
Eric Chewning, HII\u2019s executive vice president of maritime systems and corporate strategy, was quoted as saying: \u201cWe are in the midst of an American shipbuilding renaissance and we are extremely excited to partner with GrayMatter Robotics to explore incorporating their state-of-the-art physical AI models into our shipbuilding operations.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that HII\u2019s shipbuilding throughput rose 14% in 2025 and the company is targeting a further 15% increase in 2026, according to the announcement. Chewning said the partnership would feed into HII\u2019s High-Yield Production Robotics initiative, describing it as having \u201cthe potential to increase our throughput efficiency without sacrificing quality.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ariyan Kabir, GrayMatter Robotics CEO and co-founder, said: \u201cWe will push to drive down delivery time, build our arsenal, build the essential components for our war fighters, and we have to do this very, very quickly. Bridging that gap between demand and capacity is of utmost importance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Much of shipbuilding work remains hands-on and highly skilled, with tasks such as sandblasting, grinding, and coating requiring strict adherence to specifications. HII said AI-driven technologies offer opportunities to reduce repetitive work and improve consistency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"America\u2019s largest shipbuilder HII has signed a memorandum of understanding with California-based GrayMatter Robotics to explore integrating AI-driven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-519449","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-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}