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TMCNet:  Vietnam to have first locally produced industrial robots by 2010

[May 22, 2009]

Vietnam to have first locally produced industrial robots by 2010

HANOI, May 22, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Vietnam will launch made-in-Vietnam industrial robots into the market by 2010 after several years of implementing trial projects, the local news paper Youth reported Friday.

According to Tran Duc Dat, head of the state-owned Science and Technique Center (STC), the STC will start work on producing mobile welders, ventilation pile cleaners and robots that can perform other functions as ordered.

With the expectation of producing over 100 robots annually, which meet only a small part of the demand for robots in current domestic industries, it is needed to invest about 1.41 billion U.S. dollars for a fully equipped factory including quality control facilities, said Dat.



The center can train adequate human resources but will have to import several raw materials for production, said Dat.

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