保障机器人供应链安全
Securing the Robotics Supply Chain
Cindy L. Bethel, Henrik I. Christensen, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, George Pappas, Holly Yanco, Haley Griffin
AI 速览：本文主张制定一项持续十年的联邦研究与投资议程，以弥补机器人供应链在验证认证、硬件基础研究、测试基础设施和人才队伍方面的缺口。
This paper sets out what a sustained federal research and investment agenda would need to include to close that gap--not within a single budget cycle, but over the decade such an undertaking will realistically require. It identifies where the gap is most pronounced today: in the methods needed to verify and certify components of uncertain origin, in the foundational hardware research that has long been underfunded relative to software, in the physical infrastructure researchers need to test systems at scale, and in the workforce required to build and sustain all of it. Robotics should not be treated merely as a downstream beneficiary of a broader artificial intelligence investment strategy. It constitutes its own supply chain, with its own points of failure, and merits its own sustained federal commitment.