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.

Business and science minister Ed Husic stated the dialogue paper will assist information a dialog on rising the manufacturing and accountable use of robotics in Australia.

“Australia has all of the components to develop our robotics business – world-class analysis establishments, a extremely expert workforce and beneficial enterprise situations,” he stated.

“The passage of our $15 billion Nationwide Reconstruction Fund by means of Parliament final week may present funding help for the onshore improvement of enabling capabilities like robotics.”

Husic stated 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 displaying international locations which have invested extra in robotics have skilled larger ranges of employment development,” the minister stated.

“Responses to the dialogue paper will assist to establish 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 boundaries confronted by companies producing robotics and automation applied sciences in Australia, in addition to searching for to handle considerations across the potential impression of robotics on work and communities.

Husic stated the federal government will seek the advice of broadly, supported by a collection of workshops throughout Australia in April and Might.

The technique will probably 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 financial system
• tackle challenges throughout the nationwide robotics and automation ecosystem, together with challenges concerning development, expertise, collaboration, cohesion, workforce impacts, public belief and approval
• articulate the potential position of robotics and automation within the authorities’s agendas for the financial system, revitalising manufacturing, jobs and expertise.

Submissions shut Might 7. Particulars, together with the dialogue paper, are obtainable right here.