Humanoid robot welders are coming to St. Bernard Parish.
On Jan. 22, Louisiana’s economic development agency and St. Bernard-based SSE Steel Fabrication announced an agreement with Houston-based tech startup Persona AI to launch a pilot program at SSE to develop humanoid robotics for industrial uses. Greater New Orleans Inc., southeast Louisiana’s economic development nonprofit, also is participating.
The pilot program is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of this year at SSE’s Violet facility, about a 30 minutes’ drive from downtown New Orleans. The company is a woman-owned steel fabrication contractor that specializes in structural fabrication for commercial, industrial, and municipal projects across the United States…