It is definitely going to make it competitive with manufacturing overseas, but the key thing is not just the manufacturing cost, but the added things that are going to happen in terms of the total cost. You don’t have to wait for 45 days for a boat to come from a developing country back to the United States.

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In the future, farmers could send machines into their fields to inspect the crops, workers on manufacturing floors could direct robots to one side of the warehouse to collect items, then quickly direct them to another area if the need changes.

Instead, the operator controls an area that needs to be explored. Then the robots work together to determine the best ways to accomplish the job.