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Jim Deva-Prasad
Professor and Director of Robotics Center at Lake Superior State University, and 2026 A3 Educator of the Year
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Jul 28, 2026
Solving the Manufacturing Skilled Labor Shortage: A Robotics Educator's 40-Year Perspective
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3:24Jim Deva-PrasadGUEST
Even right now, if you see in manufacturing, there are about half a million jobs that are not filled between 2024 and 2034 again with Studies from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are expected to be about 2 million unfilled jobs in the next eight years or so.
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3:44Jim Deva-PrasadGUEST
Since I'm in robotics, the compounded annual growth rate in robotics comes in at the lowest 11%.
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4:00Jim Deva-PrasadGUEST
And this clear evidence misunderstanding perhaps would be that there is talk about how AI is replacing jobs, which is actually kind of interesting.
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4:10Jim Deva-PrasadGUEST
Here they're talking about labor shortage, but yet we're also talking about unemployment.
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