Australia will develop robotics and automation throughout the financial system by combining analysis and manufacturing abilities underneath a brand new technique.
Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic has appointed an advisory committee to develop a nationwide robotics technique that may meet for the primary time on Tuesday and be chaired by Australia’s chief scientist Professor Bronwyn Fox.
“We also want to ensure that we develop our robotic strength alongside human skills, delivering secure well-paid jobs,” Mr Husic mentioned.
Robotics firms are estimated to be price $18 billion in annual income to the financial system, up from $12 billion in 2018, serving sectors starting from mining to agriculture in addition to superior manufacturing.
“Australian made and maintained robotics and automation systems have the potential to boost local manufacturing, open up export opportunities and create safer and more productive work environments,” Mr Husic mentioned.
“And while we’re recognised as possessing strength in field robotics, we can do better, across a wider range of activities.”
Upgrading industrial functionality is without doubt one of the federal authorities’s priorities underneath a $15 billion nationwide reconstruction fund, which has allotted as much as $1 billion to quantum, robotics and synthetic intelligence applied sciences.
ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
* Chair Bronwyn Fox, chief scientist at Australia’s nationwide science company CSIRO
* Futurist Catherine Ball, Australian National University School of Cybernetics
* Andrew Dettmer, nationwide president of the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union
* Hugh Durrant-Whyte, NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer
* Sue Keay, founder and chair of Robotics Australia Group
* Simon Lucey, director on the Australian Institute of Machine Learning
* Julia Powles, director at UWA Minderoo Tech and Policy Lab
* Mike Zimmerman, companion at Main Sequence Ventures
