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Australia’s robotics and AI sector is primed for lift-off, and ready to tackle some of the country’s greatest challenges and export solutions to the world and beyond.
Robotics at CSIRO Data61: Australia needs to tap into its own undiscovered storehouse of talent in robotics and artificial intelligence.
Navinda Kottege
The result is a fragmented and underutilised collection of local players, frustrated as large Australian businesses often turn to overseas solutions rather than take advantage of the expertise in their own backyard.
Likewise, local STEM talent is often lured overseas by the promise of significant funding and opportunities elsewhere.
published : 30 Apr 2021 at 15:58
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Embracing the significance of automation and robotics as the key transformative force for global productivity, the Thai government has laid strong groundwork for the growth of the country’s automation and robotics industry by introducing incentives, forging collaboration with the private sector, and developing an integrated innovation incubator and learning centre in its flagship Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).
The Automation, Robotics and Intelligent Electronics Center will be built as part of the EECi1 to be known as ARIPOLIS. Aiming to nurture innovation in robot prototypes and automation systems and translate the technology into actual usage in the business sector, the centre will serve as a comprehensive hub of R&D, incubator activities, training and education.
STATE-OF-THE-ART INNOVATION INCUBATOR AND LEARNING CENTER IN THE EEC bangkokpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bangkokpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
published : 23 Apr 2021 at 15:07
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With physical distancing and lockdown measures in place across most countries around the world, companies are scrambling to find the means of ensuring business continuity while minimising the amount of contact between their workers.
To achieve this, they are increasingly turning to robots and automation to perform many of the roles that their employees cannot do while working from home.
Global surge amid shifting trends
In its World Robotics Report 2020, the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) reported a 12% YoY (year-on-year) increase in the number of industrial robots operating in factories around the world in 2019. The 2.7 million units in operation worldwide was the highest number ever recorded. Commenting on the findings of the report, Mr. Milton Guerry, the IFR President, stated that: “The remaining months of 2020 will be shaped by adaption to the ‘new normal’. Robot suppliers will