--- title: How Persona AI Makes Humanoids Pay Off In Welding description: Persona AI, founded by Nic Radford and Jerry Pratt, is building humanoid robots specifically for skilled trades rather than general-purpose or unskilled labor,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-persona-ai-makes-humanoids-pay-off-in-welding-nauf78anm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Persona AI Makes Humanoids Pay Off In Welding | daily.dev og:description: Persona AI, founded by Nic Radford and Jerry Pratt, is building humanoid robots specifically for skilled trades rather than general-purpose or unskilled labor,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-persona-ai-makes-humanoids-pay-off-in-welding-nauf78anm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/naUF78Anm.png og:image:alt: How Persona AI Makes Humanoids Pay Off In Welding og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Persona AI Makes Humanoids Pay Off In Welding **[IEEE Spectrum](https://daily.dev/sources/ieeespectrum)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Persona AI, founded by Nic Radford and Jerry Pratt, is building humanoid robots specifically for skilled trades rather than general-purpose or unskilled labor, betting on shipyard welding as its first commercially viable use case. Shipyards need hundreds of kilometers of relatively simple linear welds, a task well-suited to robotic precision and endurance where humans tire. Persona has partnerships with HD Hyundai (world's largest shipbuilder) and POSCO (third-largest steel producer), targeting customers who can deploy hundreds of robots per site. The pitch is not replacing workers but helping labor-constrained shipyards increase output, since a shortage of skilled welders is currently capping production. Persona sees shipbuilding as a beachhead into adjacent industrial skills like grinding and painting, aiming to become a broad repository of industrial robotic skills over time. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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