HII signs up to $900M agreement with Path Robotics, GrayMatter Robotics
Rove pairs Path Robotics’ Obsidian physical AI model with legged robot for autonomous welding beyond fixed cells. | Source: Path Robotics Huntington Ingalls Industries, or HII, today announced long-term performance-based production agreements with GrayMatter Robotics and Path Robotics. Under the agreements, HII intends to award up to $900 million in total shipbuilding work to Path Robotics and GrayMatter across seven years. Path Robotics provides robotic welding technology, while GrayMatte
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Huntington Ingalls Industries has signed long-term agreements with two robotics companies to provide up to $900 million in shipbuilding work over seven years, with one company supplying robotic welding technology and the other providing robotic sanding systems. Both companies are part of a program launched to accelerate advanced adaptive automation in naval shipbuilding for aircraft carriers, submarines, destroyers, and other vessels. The agreements include a development stage where the companies will work with Huntington Ingalls to create and validate production techniques, followed by a delivery stage where the robotics companies will perform actual shipbuilding work if they meet cost, schedule, and quality performance standards. This represents an expansion of Huntington Ingalls' strategy to outsource shipbuilding work, with plans to outsource more than 2.5 million hours of work in 2026, a 30 percent increase from the previous year.
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