Restoring American greatness on manufacturing will require robotics to meet job demands and compete with labor costs, and President Donald Trump is going to have to put that on his plate in his big agenda for rebalancing global trade and bringing production back to the United States.

That is because 70% of the world’s manufacturing robots are now produced overseas in Japan, China, Germany, and South Korea, according to the International Federation of Robotics.

“This is how you compete today,” Association for Advancing Automation President Jeff Burnstein told Axios. “You have to take advantage of the best tools available.

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