Australia’s first national robotics strategy has set lofty goals to crank up adoption and turn a fledgling local industry into a thriving exporter that competes with automation powerhouses like Germany and Japan.
Released on Tuesday after nearly two years in development, the lightly detailed robotics plan also comes with a warning that the retirement of manufacturing assets in Australia is outpacing investment.
Robotics and automation can help turn this around, the strategy says, but adoption is currently too slow outside of certain promising areas like mining, fruit picking and drones.
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