| The City of Osaka is establishing a system that will organically connect next-generation industries with industries that are forming a cluster and promoting industry-academia-government collaboration to conduct various priority industry promotion projects. |
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| The robot technology industry is a next-generation industry supported by a wide variety of leading-edge technologies, such as nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, communications and power technologies. The Kansai Region has a large concentration of various manufacturing companies with advanced technologies closely related to robot technology, as well as universities and research institutes conducting research on robot technology. Exploiting such regional strengths, the City of Osaka is striving to develop the next-generation robot industry through various support projects. |
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| LADY BIRD, Cleaning and Communicating Robot |
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| Osaka’s Main Projects for Promoting Robot Technology Industry |
| ■Robot Laboratory Project |
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| Mainly through Robot Laboratory, the center of the next-generation robot industry, the City of Osaka promotes R&D and other activities to create new products and services through industry-academia collaboration and business-to-business cooperation; develops human resources, organizes events and seminars, conducts PR activities, supports pilot demonstrations essential for commercialization of new products and services, and provides other assistance. (Website: http://www.robo-labo.jp/english/) |
| ■Next-Generation Robot Development Network -RooBO Commission- |
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| RooBO is a network of companies established to create new business using robot technology. Efforts are under way through the network to tackle various robot-business-related challenges and promote collaborative projects between companies possessing excellent constituent technologies. |
■Organizing events such as RoboCup Japan Open
and Global Monodzukuri Summit |
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| The City of Osaka enhances its presence as the world’s center for the robot technology industry by organizing such events as exhibitions, business meetings and symposiums relating to robot technology, as well as RoboCup competitions that bring together robotic researchers and engineers from home and abroad. |
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| Table : Future Projection of Robot Market Scale |
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| ※Figures for 2005 include actual performance values (and some estimated values) from sources below. |
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Figures for manufacturing sector (next-generation assembly robots, robot cells and other industrial robots) include export values. |
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Figures for industrial robots were extrapolated from trend in past shipment values sourced from JARA’s shipment value statistics. Figures for each sector were extrapolated from average annual growth rates in shipment values from 1998 to 2006. Note, however, that it was assumed that the categories “Other Shipments” and “Other Manufactures,”and shipment values in 2006 would remain stable until 2030. Export ratio is fixed at 149% (ratio of 2006) of domestic shipment values. |
| Source 1: |
“The Robot Market,” CSTP Coordination Program of Science and Technology Projects (Next Generation Robots) |
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“Robotics Technology Strategy Map”(FY2006), NEDO |
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“Corporate Fact-Finding Survey on Manipulators and Robots”(Sep. 2007), Japan Robot Association |
| Healthcare and Preventive Medicine |
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| Osaka City is home to a high concentration of pharmaceutical companies and food manufacturers engaged in bio-related business, as well as their supporting companies, such as chemical companies and medical equipment companies. Moreover, the Kansai Region has unique R&D centers, such as Saito Life Science Park in northern part of Osaka Prefecture, and research centers for the Kobe Medical Industry Development Project in Kobe City. Surrounded by such R&D centers, the City of Osaka offers an ideal environment, with a support system through an industry-academia-government network, for healthcare and preventive medicine-related companies to conduct R&D, commercialization and marketing activities. |
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| ●Center of Research for Healthcare and Preventive Medicine Industries |
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| ●Table Production Values of Pharmaceutical Products by Prefecture |
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Statistics of Production by Pharmaceutical Industry (2009), Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare |
●Industry-Academia-Government Network for Development of Healthcare
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