Robotics Development Roadmaps

Robotics Development Roadmaps

Alexander V. Lopota
Doctor of Technical Science, Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (RTC), Director and Chief Designer, 21, Tikhoretsky pr., Saint Petersburg, 194064, Russia, tel.: +7(812)552-01-10, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., ORCID:0000-0001-8095-9905

Boris A. Spassky
PhD in Technical Sciences, RTC, Head of Section, 21, Tikhoretsky pr., Saint Petersburg, 194064, Russia, tel.: +7(812)552-13-25, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., ORCID: 0000-0002-5210-5408

Received 23 December 2020

Abstract
The article discusses government development programs for robotics and autonomous systems in the countries with the highest level of robots’ production and implementation, considers general trends and particularities of national roadmaps. It is shown that such programs create conditions for the development of this industry of key priority, form the basis of state policy, determine measures of state support for domestic robot manufacturers, increasing their international competitiveness, and create conditions for the widespread introduction of robotics. Contrary to popular belief, the development of robotics leads not to reduction, but to creation of job opportunities, simultaneously replacing unskilled labor with creative highly qualified labor of robotics engineers. Many development programs, in addition to workplace automation, set the task of safe and effective human-robot interaction. The article discusses Russian legislative acts in the field of robotics and justifies the necessity to create a domestic roadmap for the robotics development.

Key words

Robotics, robotics development roadmap, industrial robot, service robot, collaborative robot, robotics technologies.

Acknowledgments
This work was carried out within the framework of the state assignment of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia no.075-01195-20-02 of August 17, 2020 «Development of proposals for improving state scientific, technical and industrial policy and popularizing achievements in the field of robotics based on an analysis of trends in the development of robotics in Russia and abroad».

DOI
https://doi.org/10.31776/RTCJ.9101

Bibliographic description
Lopota, A. and Spassky, B., 2021. Robotics Development Roadmaps. Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, 9(1), pp.5-16.

UDC identifier:
001.18:004.896:621.865.8

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