Only robots can bring factories back to US


Machine power: Ford F150 trucks go through robots on the assembly line at the Ford Dearborn Truck Plant in Michigan. America has one of the lowest rates of automation among the world’s top industrial powers, which is why the very first thing the US government should do is to help its companies automate. — AFP

WASHINGTON: How to bring manufacturing back to America has been a hot-button issue in the presidential election.

Arnold Kamler, who has the same goal for his family-owned bicycle business, says both candidates are going about it the wrong way – talking about tariffs or taxes, when they should be smoothing the road for robots.

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