Semi-conductors and Australia's robotics industry - webinar 2022
Channel: Robotics Australia Group
Date: 2022-10-31

Robots and Semiconductors:  What a semiconductor bureau will mean for Australian robotics companies

A webinar by Robotics Australia Group with NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte
Held from 1-2pm AEDT on Monday 31st October 

The Opportunity for Australia
 
Robotics will impact every sector of the Australian economy and has the potential to achieve enormous social and environmental good. Creating robotic technologies will lead to the jobs of the future through creating new possibilities. 
 
Semiconductors are an important element of robotics, the “brains” behind modern electronics, embedded in all of our electronic devices. While Australia does research in the field and local companies that design semiconductors, we have never developed a semiconductor industry and rely on importing microchips fabricated elsewhere. NSW are looking to change the dynamics and increase Australia’s economic complexity by creating a semiconductor sector service bureau “S3B”.
 
The Webinar
 
Robotics Australia Group has invited Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte to talk about this important initiative to support Australia’s semiconductor industry. We will explore why Australia has largely been a passive consumer of these technologies and how we can reinvent ourselves as value creators. What is required to build homegrown global companies that export semiconductors to the world, and importantly, what does this mean for our robotics industry? The Office of the NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer released a report on the Australian Semiconductor Sector Study in 2020 and the formation of a bureau was a key recommendation from that report.
 
Background - Robotics Australia Group
 
Robotics Australia Group (RAG) is the peak body for robotics in Australia. Representing the creators of robotics and robotics-related technologies, integrators, users, researchers, educators, students and enthusiasts. Robotics Australia Group was formed in May 2020 as a not-for-profit company to facilitate the growth of a sustainable and internationally competitive national robotics industry.