AI robots are helping to fill workforce gaps across industries, says RobotLAB CEO
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As artificial intelligence rapidly evolves, Fox News got an exclusive look at a company that’s helping businesses across the country use AI-powered robots to increase efficiency and fill workforce gaps.
RobotLAB, with 36 locations nationwide and headquartered in Texas, has more than 50 types of robots, from cleaning and customer service robots to security robots.
Almost every industry could use robots, from tending to debilitated patients in nursing homes and delivering food to restaurants and hotels to handling box deliveries in warehouses and entering burning buildings to protect firefighters.
CEO Elad Inbar says mid-range cleaning robots are well-known, capable of cleaning hundreds of thousands of square meters per day. Hospitals, airports and supermarkets across the country accept them.
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Texas-based robotics company RobotLAB is using the power of AI to fill critical gaps across different industries. (Fox News / Fox News)
Inbar partners with businesses across the country to provide robots that fit each company’s needs, teach owners how to use AI effectively and adapt to change. He stresses that nothing will replace human emotion, but AI robots can help fill labor gaps by taking on jobs that no one else wants to do.
“We have robots that can deliver work endlessly, they fight fire and so on. So, they’re very skilled, and we have a shortage of workers,” Inbar said. “People don’t want to do these jobs. And if people don’t want to do the job, we have a solution that can help business owners.”
Inbar believes that the next big step in AI is humanoid robots, and they are already developing rapidly. He believes that by the end of the decade, humanoid robots will be in homes, able to cook, clean and handle care needs.
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RobotLAB CEO Elad Inbar aims to have AI-powered humanoid robots performing tasks in homes by the end of the decade. (Fox News / Fox News)
“It’s something we haven’t seen in 18 years, at least since we started [have been] running the company,” Inbar said. “Humanoid robots have become more powerful thanks to advances in hardware and software. Robots are actually able to understand reality, to understand our environment. Understand when you… Ask your robot to go clean the table, it understands what needs to go in the trash and what needs to be put in the dishwasher.”
Recently, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at preventing states from over-regulating AI. Inbar says this is important to keep businesses competitive in the AI race, especially against China. He emphasizes protecting people’s privacy—but warns that excessive regulation could stifle innovation and put the US at a disadvantage.
“It affects everything from national security, you know, productivity, even the ability to sustain our lives through energy and everything else,” Inbar said. “So, these are the things that we need AI to solve, to work with, and to be the first to do that. Because if you’re not the first, you’re the last.”
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Inbar says AI is important for things like national security and productivity. (Fox News / Fox News)
RobotLAB also partners with two-thirds of school districts, helping educators and younger generations transform with AI.
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“We develop the curriculum, we create lesson plans, we develop activities, we develop the skills of teachers to help them increase their studies with these types of technology,” said Inbar. “We’ve taken traditional robots like robotic arms and built a complete curriculum that teaches kids trigonometry and physics and math and all that.”
