IV 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 598 
Supporting the designation of National Robotics Week as an annual event. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 27, 2012 
Mr. DOYLE (for himself and Mr. GINGREY of Georgia) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and 
Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the 
Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Supporting the designation of National Robotics Week as 
an annual event. 
Whereas the United States has the largest number of aca-
demic and research organizations with dedicated pro-
grams focused on the advancement of robotics tech-
nology; 
Whereas robotics has matured into an all-encompassing and 
enabling technology that, as a pillar of 21st-century 
American innovation, is positioned to fuel a broad array 
of next generation products and applications, transform 
our society, and become as ubiquitous over the next sev-
eral decades as desktop and mobile computing technology 
is today; 
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Whereas the emerging market for service robotics in various 
sectors, including healthcare, national defense, homeland 
security, energy, manufacturing, logistics, transportation, 
agriculture, education, consumer goods, and others, is ex-
pected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 
nearly 20 percent over the next few years to become a 
worldwide $27 billion industry; 
Whereas robotics is a critical technology capable in the near 
term of contributing to the economic recovery by creating 
new jobs, increasing productivity, improving quality, and 
increasing worker safety, and equally capable over time 
of addressing the longer term labor and healthcare issues 
expected to result from the 40 percent increase in the 
number of the Nation’s elderly over the next 20 years; 
Whereas robotics technology holds tremendous potential for 
reducing the cost of healthcare delivery, stimulating the 
discovery and development of new procedures and treat-
ments for a wide variety of diseases and disorders, im-
proving the standard and accessibility of care, providing 
individuals with disabilities, especially injured veterans, 
with greater independence and dignity, and enhancing 
overall patient health outcomes; 
Whereas robotics technology is proving essential to our na-
tional defense and homeland security by enabling the on-
going development and fielding of unmanned air, ground, 
and maritime systems that today help keep our Nation’s 
war-fighters and protectors out of harm’s way, and in the 
long run will serve as a highly effective force multiplier; 
Whereas robotics is a key transformative technology that can 
revolutionize American manufacturing by enabling small- 
and mid-sized companies to cost effectively combine high-
ly skilled workers and highly adaptable, precise, and reli-
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