National Robotics Roadmap

Over the last three years more than 160 people have collaborated on the formulation of a national technology roadmap for robotics. The roadmap considers key business drivers for the future of robotics, identifies some of the key missing competencies and outlines research issues to be addressed with expected milestones 5, 10 and 15 years from now. The roadmap is organized across the areas of manufacturing & logistics, medical & healthcare, and service applications. The roadmap has been presented to the congressional caucus on robotics and the White House Office of Science and Technology Planning. It formed an integral part of the vision of the recently announced National Robotics Initiative. The roadmap process was sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and coordinated by Henrik Christensen director of Robotics & Intelligent Machines @ Georgia Tech. The full roadmap in PDF form can be found here.