More Jamaicans encouraged to learn robotics

 

More Jamaicans are being encouraged to study robotics and related programmes.

 

Minister with responsibility for Skills and Digital Transformation Dr. Dana Morris Dixon says more local businesses are integrating the technology to boost production. 

 

"I've met with other manufacturing companies in Jamaica and they plan to use more technology, more robotics, in their manufacturing plants. What that means is that we're seeing a shift in our manufacturing sector in Jamaica, and we need to have the workforce in tandem with that. And so what is being done here in the robotics programme, but also in the broader mechatronics programme, is saying that we are fully invested as HEART/NSTA Trust," she declared. 

 

Managing Director of the HEART/NSTA Trust Dr. Taneisha Ingleton said the national training agency has acquired some of the latest technology to boost its training programme. 

 

"We have purchased 60 autonomous mobile robotics kits and 20 aerial robotics or what we refer to as drones. These kits will take our students from basic to advanced in designing, in programming, and installing, and even maintaining robots in just about any sector," she shared.