WORLD ROBOTICS R&D PROGRAMS

Inhalt Introduction ....................................................................................................... 3Classification..................................................................................................... 5Executive summary .......................................................................................... 6China ............................................................................................................. 6Japan............................................................................................................. 7Korea ............................................................................................................. 8Singapore ...................................................................................................... 8Australia......................................................................................................... 9European Union........................................................................................... 10Germany...................................................................................................... 10Italy .............................................................................................................. 11United Kingdom ........................................................................................... 11Sweden........................................................................................................ 12Switzerland .................................................................................................. 12United States ............................................................................................... 12Canada ........................................................................................................ 14Summary ........................................................................................................ 16A01China................................................................................................. 16A02Japan ................................................................................................ 33A03Korea ................................................................................................ 42A07Singapore ......................................................................................... 53A11Australia ............................................................................................ 60E00EU ..................................................................................................... 66E01Germany ........................................................................................... 73E02Italy ................................................................................................... 77E04UK ..................................................................................................... 83E07Sweden ............................................................................................. 88E11Switzerland ....................................................................................... 92U01USA................................................................................................... 96U02Canada ........................................................................................... 113Appendix....................................................................................................... 118A01China............................................................................................... 118A03Korea .............................................................................................. 158E02Italy ................................................................................................. 241 Executive summary:Each country will have itsown characteristics of robot programs based onits specific background and history, for instancewith cultural, mental and industry in focus. Inthis section, current as well as historical robotprograms will be briefly summarized. Introduction Most countries invest in robotics – mainly on agovernmentlevel.This trend has beenstrengthenedinrecentyears.Throughdiversification and the establishment of robottechnologies,investmentinnewrobottechnologies has become larger than before,and the application spectrum of such R&D onrobotics is now broader. For more than tenyears,a very challenging environment–influencedby AI,IoT,Big Data and 5Gtelecommunication – has been driving our dailylife, including robots. Summary: The robotics R&D program of eachcountrywill be summarized into five pagesmostly. Several big programs in one countrycan be separately summarized, for instance,Artemis Lunar Program, IRAS program by NSFand so on. The original material is linked intoeverysummary and one click leads to theoriginal material on the Internet. Appendix: Some documents and materials arenot easily accessible online, especially frommost Asian countries. Another problem is th