Following on from advancements like 5G and AI, it’s never been so important for governments to invest in robotics.
As technology progresses in its advances, governments worldwide are investing millions of dollars a year into researching robotic science.
Here are the biggest developments across the globe:
The European Union is investing an estimated amount of 780 million US Dollars into robotic research, running for seven consecutive years so far.
The project funded by Horicon 2020, focuses on innovative research into manufacturing, commercial, healthcare, consumer, transportation, and food robotics with promising technology like AI, cognition, cognitive, mechatronics, human interaction, model-based designs, and configuration tools, set to be a budget of 173 million US Dollars.
Germany has a high-tech strategy in place to support digital technology advances currently standing in 5th place worldwide and number one in Europe, with Italy and France as the runners up.
Their PAiCE programme has a five-year budget of 55 million US Dollars. The support of these digital technologies is administrative and industry-based, collaborating with companies into the development of industry platforms.
Their main focus lies with the services, logistics and manufacturing sectors and has a selling record of 27,000 units in 2018, an increase of 26%.
Last year the Chinese government were said to have invested 577m US Dollars into robotic intelligence. And according to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), in 2018, they reached a robot density over 140 units per 10,000 workers in the manufacturing industry alone.
Now, in 2020, China has introduced a blueprint plan to further upgrade manufacturing capabilities. For 2020 the goals are as follows: To develop three to five global competitive robotics manufacturers with eight to 10 industrial clusters to achieve a market share of 45% in high-end robotics. Further, increasing their robot density with 100 robots per 10,000 workers.
Japan has introduced a robotic strategy in line with its Abenomics Growth, increasing its budget to 351 million US Dollars to become what they hope is the most innovative hub for robotics in the world.
According to IFR, Japan already is the leading industrial robotics manufacturer, delivering 52% of the global share in 2018.
Their main focus is to inject not only into the manufacturing sector but also essential industries such as agriculture, infrastructure and healthcare.
Korea has robotic intelligence at the core of its industry developments in its fourth industrial revolution.
Their 2019 plan pushed these developments in promising sectors, both public and private, with a focus on healthcare and logistics with next-generation components, and robotic software.
For 2020 their budget is 126 million US Dollars having ranked third behind China and Japan in 2018 for their industrial robotics operations according to IFR.
The US government has launched an R&D programme into the fundamentals of robotics in The National Robotics Initiative (NRI) focusing on science, technology, and the integration of everyday life robotic advances.
They support collaboration from organisations including academia, industry and non-profits with a 2019 budget of 35 million US Dollars.
They also have additional application funding into defence and space through the Department of Defence (DoD) and the Mars Exploration Program.
According to IFR, the US increased for an eighth year with their robotic installations, taking third place from South Korea.
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