AsianFin -- The world’s manufacturing sector is on the verge of a fundamental transformation, with robots and artificial intelligence set to replace humans in repetitive and hazardous assembly-line work within the next ten years, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday.

“Today, AI is fundamental infrastructure—like electricity and the internet before it,” Huang said during the opening ceremony of the International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing. “AI is revolutionizing the supply chain, changing how we build and move things.”

Huang, who was the guest of honor at the event and is visiting the Chinese capital for the third time this year, said that hundreds of projects in China are already using Nvidia’s Omniverse platform to simulate digital twins for optimizing factory and warehouse operations.

His comments come as Nvidia prepares to resume shipments of its H20 AI chips tailored for the Chinese market, following regulatory clearance. Founded in 1993, the California-based chipmaker has become the world’s most valuable company this year amid a global boom in demand for AI computing.