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On June 24, 2011 President Obama announced the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership. The program aims to combine industry, universities, and federal departments in efforts to foster emerging and develop new technologies to further the nations global competitiveness. RIM's focus in the partnership will be bringing robotics into manufacturing roles that will create new high tech jobs and increase manufacturing efficiency. More about the program can be found here at the White House website [1] and at the Georgia Tech News Room [2].