The federal authorities has issued a dialogue paper on the event of a brand new Nationwide Robotics Technique to raised perceive the alternatives and challenges for Australian industries adopting robotics and automation.
Trade and science minister Ed Husic mentioned the dialogue paper will assist information a dialog on rising the manufacturing and accountable use of robotics in Australia.
“Australia has all of the substances to develop our robotics business – world-class analysis establishments, a extremely expert workforce and beneficial enterprise situations,” he mentioned.
“The passage of our $15 billion Nationwide Reconstruction Fund by means of Parliament final week can even present funding assist for the onshore growth of enabling capabilities like robotics.”
Husic mentioned automation tech, together with robotics, might add between $170 billion to $600 billion yearly to Australia’s GDP by 2030.
“It’s additionally good for jobs, with analysis exhibiting nations which have invested extra in robotics have skilled larger ranges of employment progress,” the minister mentioned.
“Responses to the dialogue paper will assist to determine precedence areas for the way forward for Australian robotics and automation applied sciences, together with current strengths and gaps to be addressed.
“Importantly, if we wish to develop superior manufacturing in Australia, we might want to discover methods to spice up our robotics and automation capabilities.”
The paper additionally ponders the limitations confronted by companies producing robotics and automation applied sciences in Australia, in addition to searching for to handle issues across the potential impression of robotics on work and communities.
Husic mentioned the federal government will seek the advice of broadly, supported by a collection of workshops throughout Australia in April and Might.
The technique can be utilized by the federal government to:
- set out a imaginative and prescient for the robotics sector in Australia together with the worth of the home marketplace for robotics and automation, and the contribution of those enabling capabilities to the economic system
- tackle challenges throughout the nationwide robotics and automation ecosystem, together with challenges relating to progress, expertise, collaboration, cohesion, workforce impacts, public belief and approval
- articulate the potential function of robotics and automation within the authorities’s agendas for the economic system, revitalising manufacturing, jobs and abilities.
Submissions shut Might 7. Particulars, together with the dialogue paper, are out there right here.