Mindy Nunez Airhart, second from right, is shown here with SSE’s partners in a new initiative to build humanoid robots for industrial applications. From left to right: Grady Fitzpatrick, chief business development office at Greater New Orleans Inc.; Madeline Trudeau Kawanaka, Louisiana Economic Development’s director of innovation programs; Josh Fleig, LED’s chief innovation officer; Nic Radford, founder of Persona AI; Justin Airhart, chief operating officer at SSE Steel Fabrication; and Jonathan Reichel, Persona’s principal marketing architect.







