IFR Press Release
Investment in Robotics Research – Global Report 2021
• International Federation of Robotics releases “World Robotics R&D Programs”
Frankfurt, May 27, 2021 — As the economies reopen from the pandemic, Asia, Europe and America adjust their robotics research funding programs (R&D). What are the targets of the officially driven government programs today? This has been researched by the IFR and published in the 2021 update paper of “World Robotics R&D Programs”.
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Please find the information paper “World Robotics R&D Programs” by IFR here.
[Professor Jong-Oh Park, Vice Chair IFR Research Committee, updated the first edition of the World Robotics R&D Programs with the latest figures and added some additional national programs. We thank him and his team for their dedicated work. Follow the press release to download the latest edition.]
IERA Award 2021
The IERA Award jointly sponsored by IFR and IEEE/RAS will be hosted this year at the ICRA conference next week in China. The IERA Award session will be held as online event on May 31, 2021 from 15.00 to 16.30 hrs (CEST) and will be open to the public. Among the four finalists two IFR members qualified with their product: MIR and ABB Robotics. Further candidates are INFAIMON and Micropsi.
Please find the detailed program and link for the online session on the IEEE webpage.