Robotics Development Roadmaps

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.