President Obama recently announced a new partnership between the government, industries and leading universities to speed the movement of technological advances to commercial users. Mr. Obama said federal agencies would invest more than $500 million to seed the initiative. Of that, $70 million is to go to robotics projects such as a boom-box-size robot that inspects sewer pipelines, made by a company started by a Carnegie Mellon professor. “We’ve launched an all-hands-on-deck effort between our brightest academic minds, some of our boldest business leaders and our most dedicated public servants from science and technology agencies, all with one big goal, and that is a renaissance of American manufacturing,” President Obama said.Learn more from the NY Times.See video of the speech from WhiteHouse.gov.
President Obama Launches Manufacturing Initiative
