로봇산업 진흥을 위한 법제연구 - 협동로봇을 중심으로 -

Looking at the domestic and international market status of the cooperative robot industry, the global cooperative robot market is expected to grow 33% annually from $480 million in 2020 to reach $8 billion by 2030, and the domestic market is also showing a gradual growth as the demand for various forms of use for domestic cooperative robots increases. These cooperative robots are used in various areas, and unlike existing industrial manufacturing robots, they are largely divided into fixed and mobile cooperative robots as robots that cooperate and use in the same workspace as humans. However, cooperative robots require the same safety certification and inspection as industrial manufacturing robots, which has a problem that hinders industrial promotion for cooperative robots. Among them, mobile cooperative robots, in particular, do not have a separate regulation on safety, so they have limitations in the use of cooperative robots. As such, cooperative robots have the same regulatory method as existing industrial robots, so it is necessary to seek a paradigm for a new regulatory method to improve the problem that hinders the promotion of the cooperative robot industry. Therefore, this study examines the problems of the current regulatory method for the promotion of the cooperative robot industry and proposes ways to improve the regulatory legislation and legislative improvement plans for the promotion of the cooperative robot industry in Korea through the analysis of governance and regulatory laws related to cooperative robots in major countries.