{"id":3974,"date":"2020-11-27T01:56:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T01:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/27\/artificial-intelligence-for-the-indo-pacific-a-blueprint-for-2030\/"},"modified":"2020-11-27T01:56:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T01:56:41","slug":"artificial-intelligence-for-the-indo-pacific-a-blueprint-for-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/27\/artificial-intelligence-for-the-indo-pacific-a-blueprint-for-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence for the Indo-Pacific: A Blueprint for 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?rct=j&#038;sa=t&#038;url=https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2020\/11\/artificial-intelligence-for-the-indo-pacific-a-blueprint-for-2030\/&#038;ct=ga&#038;cd=CAIyHDkyYmU1MGQ5NjY1NjYxZTA6Y28udWs6ZW46R0I&#038;usg=AFQjCNEkmlA3WHPxFpYubH34kA3uk3Mh0Q\">Artificial Intelligence for the Indo-Pacific: A Blueprint for 2030<\/a><\/p>\n<aside class=\"td-box td-ad td-ad-vertical td-right\">\n<header>Advertisement<\/header>\n<div class=\"td-ad-body\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1343666802946-1\" class=\"td-ad td-ad--gpt\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As even the most inattentive observer of contemporary international politics will attest, technological competition \u2013 mostly, but not always, between the U.S. and its allies on one hand, and China and Russia on the other \u2013 has once again risen to the fore. Analysts, so far, have approached this issue from various angles: what it means in terms of military balances, the possibility of international cooperation, what a technological edge implies for domestic policies, and so on. The outgoing Trump administration has made technological contestation with China a cornerstone of its strategic policy, emphasizing the need for the United States to maintain its edge when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), quantum information science, and aerospace and other critical technologies, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Other Indo-Pacific powers, such as Australia, India, and Japan, have also joined the fray in pushing both new and emerging tech at home as well as promoting collaboration around it between \u201clike-minded countries.\u201d In June this year, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gouvernement.fr\/en\/launch-of-the-global-partnership-on-artificial-intelligence\">Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence<\/a> of 14 states along with the European Union was launched, to facilitate collective AI research as well as implementation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.org.au\/building-an-india-australia-partnership-on-critical-technology\/\">Australia and India<\/a> have committed to work together across a range of critical technologies, including AI, while the Pentagon is looking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2020\/09\/new-pentagon-initiative-aims-help-allies-contractors-work-together-ai\/168343\/\">jointly collaborate<\/a> on AI-related technologies and use-practice with allies and partners. U.S. think tanks have also issued reports that look at the possibility of greater <a href=\"https:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/2020\/06\/29\/u.s.-japan-technology-policy-coordination-balancing-technonationalism-with-globalized-world-pub-82176\">international collaboration<\/a> on AI and of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnas.org\/research\/technology-and-national-security\/technology-alliance\">developing an \u201calliance innovation base<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>AI Collaboration: The What and Why<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the same time as technological competition has heated up, the strategic construct of the \u201cIndo-Pacific\u201d \u2013 whose geographic extent covers the Indian Ocean and the Pacific \u2013 has come to the fore, the key advocates of which have been the very same actors that have paid close attention to the role new and emerging technologies can play in determining future geopolitical balance: Australia, India, Japan, and the United States, among others. These actors have noted the need for the Indo-Pacific region to be \u201cfree,\u201d \u201copen,\u201d \u201cresilient,\u201d and \u201cinclusive.\u201d Operationally, what these adjectives mean is that the Indo-Pacific remains free of Chinese coercion, economic and otherwise; that it is open in terms of not allowing exclusive territorial claims that run against the grain of global-commons principles; and \u2013 this has come to the fore especially during the coronavirus pandemic \u2013 is resilient to shocks. To this desideratum has been added the need for the region to be \u201cinclusive,\u201d meaning that visions for the Indo-Pacific include all regional powers, their needs and views. Concerns around China\u2019s grey-zone coercion and hybrid warfare and its regional infrastructure diplomacy have compounded worries about the balance of military power in the Indo-Pacific shifting decisively in favor of China in the minds of many regional actors.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"td-box-newsletter\" class=\"td-box td-box-m td-left\">\n<header>\n<h3>Diplomat Brief<\/h3>\n<h4>Weekly Newsletter<\/h4>\n<p><i>N<\/i><\/header>\n<div class=\"td-main\">\n<p>Get briefed on the story of the week, and developing stories to watch across the Asia-Pacific.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"td-btn td-btn--full-width td-btn--no-margin\" href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/newsletter\/\"><span>Get the Newsletter<\/span><i><svg height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" width=\"24\">\n    <path d=\"M20 4H4c-1.1 0-1.99.9-1.99 2L2 18c0 1.1.9 2 2 2h16c1.1 0 2-.9 2-2V6c0-1.1-.9-2-2-2zm0 4l-8 5-8-5V6l8 5 8-5v2z\" \/>\n    <path d=\"M0 0h24v24H0z\" fill=\"none\" \/>\n<\/svg><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In what follows, I identify three technologies around AI for regional collaboration that can help further the free, open, resilient, and inclusive nature of the Indo-Pacific in the medium term, up until 2030. I do so by assuming that extant technological trends will hold over the next decade and that both challenges and opportunities in the region will be what they are today. In terms of their strategic use, I identify:<\/p>\n<p class=\"td-ad-inline td-ad-inline-txt ng-hide\" ng-show=\"dplpw.ad\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/subscriptions\/\"><b>Enjoying this article?<\/b> Click here to subscribe for full access. Just $5 a month.<\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Spatial computing technology as means to maintain the <em>open<\/em> character of the region, given its ability to make the most out of geospatial information, and therefore its use to augment traditional military capabilities;<\/li>\n<li><em>Resilient<\/em> smart infrastructure as a means to re-energize the region\u2019s ability to absorb shocks to social-technical and physical infrastructure;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCounter-adversarial technologies\u201d that can help regional actors combat disinformation as well as emerging forms of cyber-attacks, and therefore maintain the region\u2019s <em>free<\/em> character by enabling them to resist non-kinetic coercion.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>But all three technologies identified here also have extensive commercial and public-welfare uses, which brings me to the <em>inclusive<\/em> part of the agenda: the idea behind choosing them is also to encourage participation of those countries in international AI collaboration which, for one reason or the other, have little incentive to jump in head first into the China-U.S. contest, and would instead prefer a more constructive agenda for tech cooperation that addresses their specific circumstances.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_190023\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone wp-image-190023 size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190023\" class=\"wp-image-190023 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techclot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/nOmkjz.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"640\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/thediplomat-2020-11-26-6.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sizes\/medium\/thediplomat-2020-11-26-6.jpg 462w, https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sizes\/medium_large\/thediplomat-2020-11-26-6.jpg 624w, https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sizes\/large\/thediplomat-2020-11-26-6.jpg 924w, https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sizes\/td-list-xs-1\/thediplomat-2020-11-26-6.jpg 58w, https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sizes\/td-list-xs-2\/thediplomat-2020-11-26-6.jpg 116w, https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sizes\/td-story-s-1\/thediplomat-2020-11-26-6.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sizes\/td-story-s-2\/thediplomat-2020-11-26-6.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/640;\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-190023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AI-related technologies for the Indo-Pacific (Graphics: The Diplomat)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"td-box td-ad td-right\">\n<header>Advertisement<\/header>\n<div class=\"td-ad-body\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1343666802946-2\" class=\"td-ad td-ad--gpt\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>A pedantic note: I use AI and machine learning (or its sub-branch, deep learning) interchangeably for what follows, the full knowledge that this is an abuse of terminology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spatial Computing Tech<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spatial computing, very generically put, is the assortment of computing technologies that enable humans to enhance their interaction with their geographical environment. As computer scientist Shashi Shekhar put in in a <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/spatial-computing\">2019 co-authored book<\/a> on the subject, \u201cspatial computing is a set of ideas and technologies that transform our lives by understanding the physical world, knowing and communicating our relation to places in that world, and navigating through these places.\u201d We are all familiar with spatial computing applications, ranging from the global positioning system, to remote sensing and geographical information systems. But that\u2019s just the beginning. <a href=\"https:\/\/cacm.acm.org\/magazines\/2016\/1\/195727-spatial-computing\/fulltext\">Evangelists of spatial computing<\/a> peer into the near future and see possibilities in spatial predictive analytics (techniques to detect useful patterns in geographical and spatial data), a \u201clocation-aware Internet of Everything (IoT)\u201d (that links mobile to fixed smart objects) as well as seamless integration of data from outdoor, indoor, underwater, and underground geographical environments.<\/p>\n<p>But most striking among the possibilities offered by spatial computing is that of augmented reality systems. As <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2020\/11\/artificial-intelligence-for-the-indo-pacific-a-blueprint-for-2030\/Augmented%20reality%20enriches%20our%20perception\">three experts on the subject define it<\/a>, \u201cAugmented reality enriches our perception of the real world by overlaying spatially aligned media in real time.\u201d While the military applications of <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.dtic.mil\/dtic\/tr\/fulltext\/u2\/a638065.pdf\">augmented reality are known<\/a>, so are its commercial possibilities, as the makers of the 2016 mobile game Pok\u00e9mon Go, which utilized it, would attest.<\/p>\n<p>Tech guru Kevin Kelly sees in augmented reality the exhilarating possibility of a \u201cmirror world.\u201d As he wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/mirrorworld-ar-next-big-tech-platform\/\">an influential essay<\/a> in Wired last February, \u201cSomeday soon, every place and thing in the real world \u2013 every street, lamppost, building, and room \u2013 will have its full-size digital twin in the mirrorworld.\u201d If such a scenario was to eventuate, the security challenges should be obvious, given the tenacity and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/china-hacking-windows-zero-day-ios-watering-hole-security-news\/\">opportunism<\/a> of state-sponsored hackers in the Indo-Pacific. Kelly went on to add: \u201cEverything connected to the internet will be connected to the mirrorworld.\u201d And, if current IoT predictions along with Kelly\u2019s confident prognostication hold \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/802690\/worldwide-connected-devices-by-access-technology\/\">one forecast suggests<\/a> that 50 billion devices will be connected through a massive web in 2030 \u2013 augmented reality would very well be what presents completely new possibilities as well as threats.<\/p>\n<p>AI and spatial computing have an integral relationship. As the number of sensors and effectors increase in a geography, the data they collect about their spatial environment will be fed to develop smarter machine-learning models which, deployed on IoT devices, will create a virtuous loop in terms of the adoption of AI.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resilient Infrastructure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"td-ad-inline td-ad-inline-txt ng-hide\" ng-show=\"dplpw.ad\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/subscriptions\/\"><b>Enjoying this article?<\/b> Click here to subscribe for full access. Just $5 a month.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even before the pandemic hit, resilience \u2013 the ability of man-made socio-technical and physical systems to absorb and survive sudden natural or artificial shocks \u2013 was on the minds of many in the Indo-Pacific. When the MIT Technology Review asked experts on their predictions for 2030 in the sidelines of Davos this year, director of the 3A Institute and senior fellow, Intel (Australia), Genevieve Bell included future recognition of how 20th-century infrastructure has failed to deliver. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2020\/02\/26\/905686\/predictions-2030-people-shaping-the-world-davos\/\">As Bell put it<\/a>, \u201cwe\u2019ll have to contend with the fact that all the infrastructures of the 20th century \u2013 electricity, water, communications, civil society itself \u2013 are brittle, and this brittleness will make the 21st century harder to deliver.\u201d The pandemic has only underscored her point, with how the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2020\/3\/16\/21173766\/coronavirus-covid-19-us-cases-health-care-system\">health infrastructure dealt<\/a> with the novel coronavirus being just one (disturbing) data point. &nbsp;To take another example: Southeast Asia is routinely hit with cyclones, and yet responses of regional governments remain subpar.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to physical infrastructure, experts routinely speak of \u201csmart cities\u201d (ASEAN, for example, has a <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2019\/11\/asean-smart-city-network-thinking-beyond-ceremonial-paradiplomacy\/\">Smart City Network Action Plan<\/a>) as the panacea for all that ails urban living environments. Setting aside the fact that there is no universally accepted definition of what constitutes \u201csmart\u201d when it comes to cities, and that the <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/smart-cities\">notion itself is contested<\/a>, at the bare minimum, a smart city necessarily is one that is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thalesgroup.com\/en\/markets\/digital-identity-and-security\/iot\/inspired\/smart-cities\">networked<\/a>, with information and communication technologies helping address challenges from urbanization, ranging from traffic management to garbage disposal.<\/p>\n<p>A focus on smart cities makes a lot of sense looking at projections around the region\u2019s future \u2013 in 2018, the United Nations <a href=\"https:\/\/population.un.org\/wup\/Publications\/Files\/WUP2018-Report.pdf\">projected that<\/a> by 2050 half of all Asian countries will have more than 74 percent of their population living in cities. Layer on top of this the explosive expected growth in the number of IoT devices, as well as possibilities emerging from spatial computing, and a new notion of resilient infrastructure for the Indo-Pacific emerges, in which AI and other automated systems contribute to resilience by leveraging seamless integration of geospatial data from \u201ceveryday\u201d smart devices \u2013 such as internet-enabled cellphones \u2013 with early warning surveillance systems. If this sounds abstract, think of a possibility where governments are able to automatically identify geographically, at a granular level, individuals and populations vulnerable to an incoming shock (such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7484813\/\">an infectious-disease outbreak<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/07\/190702160115.htm\">inclement weather<\/a>) and guide them to appropriate relief facilities (such as hospitals and shelters).<\/p>\n<aside class=\"td-box td-ad td-right\">\n<header>Advertisement<\/header>\n<div class=\"td-ad-body\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1572275980546-0\" class=\"td-ad td-ad--gpt\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Counter-adversarial Tech<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A key issue that has, time and again, come up on the strategic agenda for the Indo-Pacific is the need to fight disinformation. At many levels, after the rampant adversarial use of social media to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential elections by entities connected to Russian intelligence, this challenge is commonly known. Social media giants such as Facebook have also found themselves under increased scrutiny as their websites and applications have been deftly manipulated by certain actors to spread disinformation in order to attain specific political goals.<\/p>\n<p>But one of the ways through which technology can help combat the spread of disinformation and speech designed to incite violence is through machine-learning tools. Facebook and Google have both developed AI-based tools \u2013 Deeptext and Perspective, respectively \u2013 that combat online trolling and hate speech. While these tools still require <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2020\/01\/08\/130983\/were-fighting-fake-news-ai-bots-by-using-more-ai-thats-a-mistake\/\">considerable participation from human moderators<\/a> to be truly effective, progress continues to be made. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/a-machine-learning-approach-could-help-counter-disinformation.html\">June 2020 RAND Europe study<\/a>, commissioned by the U.K.\u2019s Defense Science and Technology Laboratory, shows that machine learning algorithms were able to detect malicious actors, including Russian trolls, in social media. Facebook has also <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/view-from-the-valley\/artificial-intelligence\/machine-learning\/how-facebook-is-using-ai-to-fight-covid19-misinformation\">relied on AI<\/a> to detect COVID-19-related disinformation on its platform, and have used a machine learning-based solution to block advertising around masks, testing kits, and other pandemic-related items. The United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is also <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/interactive\/2019\/01\/business\/pentagons-race-against-deepfakes\/\">heavily invested<\/a> in research into the detection of \u201cdeepfakes\u201d \u2013 AI-generated videos and images that are virtually indistinguishable from real ones.<\/p>\n<p>But disinformation, including through deepfakes, is only half of the challenge when it comes to malign actors seeking to contaminate and exploit the collective information pool. Increasingly, researchers are becoming cautious about the possibility of \u201cadversarial machine learning,\u201d a set of techniques hackers and other malicious players may utilize to exploit inherent vulnerabilities in how a machine learning model comes to be and is deployed. As one collective research effort of industry majors and academic institutions put it in a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mitre\/advmlthreatmatrix\/blob\/master\/pages\/adversarial-ml-101.md#adversarial-machine-learning-101\">tutorial on the subject<\/a>, the \u201cmethods underpinning the production machine learning systems are systematically vulnerable to a new class of vulnerabilities across the machine learning supply chain,\u201d which adversaries will seek to tap into.<\/p>\n<p>These include specific targeting of either the training or the inference parts of the supply chain \u2013 or both. One adversarial machine learning attack is \u201cmodel poisoning\u201d where an attacker \u201ccontaminates the training data of an ML system in order to get a desired outcome at inference time.\u201d One industry report notes that <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mitre\/advmlthreatmatrix\">30 percent of all cyberattacks<\/a> in 2022 will be instances of adversarial machine learning. Increasingly, as the IoT leads to even greater proliferation of AI-enabled systems, research into adversarial machine learning will require further sustained efforts and international collaboration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Why Question, Revisited<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As has often been said before, between techno-optimism and techno-pessimism lies techno-realism. In this sketch, I have attempted to be both prospective as well as prescriptive. This article is prospective in the sense that what has preceded is based on the extrapolation of current trends around both where the Indo-Pacific stands in terms of its needs as well as extant technology; the preceding has been a description of things very likely to materialize, irrespective of one\u2019s normative position around it. But this article is also an exercise in prescription: of areas around which regional powers can profitably, and even informally, collaborate, assuming that they continue to expect a free, open, inclusive, and resilient Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>But an international collaborative approach to technology, involving both states and non-state actors such as commercial entities, also has a powerful institutional externality, in that the norms around its use can be more easily socialized. This, in turn, has a geopolitical function. Concretely: take the preceding discussion around smart surveillance and resilient infrastructure. As is painfully obvious, China\u2019s pursuit of AI-driven surveillance has not only impacted its own ethnic minorities, but it has also \u201csocialized\u201d the use of such tech to countries across the world, including known authoritarian states. But if an Indo-Pacific technology coalition was to emerge that, instead of calling for nations to eschew all use of smart surveillance, jointly devised ways to develop and ethically deploy it, it automatically becomes a powerful counterweight to China.<\/p>\n<p>As a concluding thought: no technology, not even AI, is a silver bullet when it comes to maintaining a relative advantage over geopolitical contenders; international politics is too complicated than that. But something as alluring as AI can gather states together as they confront a range of challenges, given that many them can be \u2013 directly or indirectly \u2013 addressed by it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Published at Thu, 26 Nov 2020 23:20:41 +0000<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?rct=j&#038;sa=t&#038;url=https:\/\/www.eveningexpress.co.uk\/news\/uk\/dyson-plans-3-billion-investment-in-robotics-and-ai-to-create-new-products\/&#038;ct=ga&#038;cd=CAIyHDkyYmU1MGQ5NjY1NjYxZTA6Y28udWs6ZW46R0I&#038;usg=AFQjCNGm2unA-fRPLzjfS8hCIx6NGh0kcw\">Dyson plans \u00a33 billion investment in robotics and AI to create new products<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"thumbnail\">\n<div class=\"thumbnail__holder\">\n\t\t\t\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"496\" height=\"372\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image syndicate-image lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techclot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/XOsagY.jpg?resize=496%2C372&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Syndicate Post image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 496px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 496\/372;\">\t\t\t<\/div><figcaption class=\"thumbnail__caption wp-caption-text\">A Dyson store on Oxford Street, central London.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"cms clearfix\">\n<div class=\"p402_premium\">\n<div class=\"lightbox-content\">\n<p>Dyson plans to spend nearly \u00a33 billion to double its range of products by 2025, with robotics among the new areas to be researched.<\/p>\n<p>The firm is best known for its range of vacuum cleaners, hair styling products, home fans and air purifying devices.<\/p>\n<p>But as part of plans to expand that portfolio, a \u00a32.75 billion investment will be used to hire new engineers and scientists as well as fund research into areas including robotics, new motor technology, machine learning and software.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time the company has tried to venture into new product areas \u2013 last year the Wiltshire-based firm scrapped its development of an electric car after deciding it was not \u201ccommercially viable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Dyson said this latest investment will span the UK, the Philippines and Singapore \u2013 the latter of which being where the technology firm is currently planning to open a new global head office.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, at the firm\u2019s Innovation Campus sites in Malmesbury and Hullavington, the new areas of study will focus on developing advanced robotics and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Dyson chief executive Roland Krueger said it was the beginning of a \u201cnew chapter\u201d in the company\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue the expansion of our operations in Singapore, UK and South East Asia, as a vital step of our future development,\u201d he said,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow is the time to invest in new technologies such as energy storage, robotics and software which will drive performance and sustainability in our products for the benefit of Dyson\u2019s customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will expand our existing product categories, as well as enter entirely new fields for Dyson over the next five years. 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