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ina’s 12th 5-Year Plan targeted robotics as a growth industry necessary for China’s development. It expects a compound growth rate of 25%, said Wang Weiming, deputy director of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The ministry has set up incentives and 5 geographical areas for Chinese companies to develop (and improve the quality of) their robot products and capabilities. The ambitious plan includes a goal of 30% to be produced with homegrown technologies, Wang said.

60 Minutes looked at the jobless recovery and the replacement of workers with automation and robotics.

Nautilus Minerals has developed robotic technology for deep-sea mining in collaboration with the French company Technip. The company is planning to open the first deep-water mine in 2015. The Solwara 1 mine will be located 1600 metres below sea level. The company has found large deposits of copper and gold there. Solwara 1 is located in the Pacific Ocean, north of Australia, in Papua New Guinea.

Understanding the development of Mega Cities and Smart Cities; "Smart" emerging as the new Green; Geo Socialization; Innovating to Zero; Beyond BRIC: The Next Game-Changers; Space Jam; Personal Robots; and New Business Models, to name a few, will create some of the Mega Trends that will influence and shape the world in the coming years to 2025.

NASA has engineers working on prototype mining technology.