U.S. Reshoring Push Turns to Robots as Manufacturers Localize Production

U.S. manufacturers are signaling a willingness to bring more production home, but the new factory footprint is being designed around robots, automation and physical AI rather than a return to labor-intensive assembly lines. The shift is showing up in reshoring surveys, robot-order data and new industrial humanoid deployments, suggesting that domestic manufacturing growth is increasingly tied to machines that can offset high labor costs and persistent hiring shortages.