# Securing the Robotics Supply Chain

**Authors:** Cindy L. Bethel, Henrik I. Christensen, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, George Pappas, Holly Yanco, Haley Griffin  
**Lab:** University of Alabama · **Published:** 29 Oct 2026  
**Links:** [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40385) · [PDF](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.40385) · [This page](https://omen-bit.github.io/ai-paper-daily/paper/2610.40385.html)

## Abstract

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.

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