Robots for new fields

Robots and related systems have been highly expected to offer useful applications for our society, opening a new market and bring about big economic growth. Accordingly variety of research and development projects have been conducted. However they did not necessary achieved expected results especially from the view point of social dissemination, i.e. they could not necessary open new market as they had been expected. Studying white papers on roadmaps and/or strategy for robotics R & D gives good consideration for fundamental issues of robotics and futuristic topic. In addition to engineering view of science and technology, societal matters are also important and should be considered.