"France 2030": Macron announces a budget of 800 million euros for robotics

The “France 2030” investment plan will devote 800 million euros to the robotics sector, including 400 million for the manufacture of these robots which integrate artificial intelligence, Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday while visiting the Siléane group in Saint -Etienne. “To reindustrialize France”, “we need to robotize, to digitize our industry, to catch up”, declared the Head of State in front of the employees of this French nugget of “adaptive robotics”. Investing in this sector avoids relocating to low-cost countries, he insisted.

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The “France 2030” plan will devote 400 million to help the production of robots with on-board intelligence, with a first call for projects in the coming days, as well as 400 million to “support the transformation of industrial sites which will massively towards the intelligent machine”, he specified. “We are going to help with the deployment of a real industrial transformation which will make it possible to reindustrialise France, rather than looking at the solutions of 30 years ago”. “Nostalgia is not a good advisor,” he continued.

“France 2030”, a plan of 30 billion euros in total

Siléane, one of the companies that could be helped, employs around a hundred people and has a turnover of 20 million euros, in a robotics sector where France is lagging behind both in use and in the manufacture of robots. Siléane produces intelligent robots, which package infusion bags for the medical field or which manage nuclear waste. They are designed to adapt to unpredictable situations.

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On October 12, the Head of State unveiled an investment plan of 30 billion euros over five years to develop industrial competitiveness and future technologies in France.

After Siléane, Emmanuel Macron will go to Montbrison, on the site of an industrial wasteland in the process of being rehabilitated to accommodate housing and shops, a project supported by the recovery plan which makes it possible to avoid artificializing soils . The Head of State has planned to make a series of visits in the coming weeks, in particular to factories, to publicize the France 2030 plan, which is projected over ten years. A way of occupying the field while all his political opponents are preparing for the April 2022 campaign.