Hanoi (VNA) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a listof priority technologies for research and development in a bid to facilitateparticipation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
These technologies belong to four areas namely digital technologies, physics,biotechnology, and energy and environment.
Specifically, digital technologies include artificial intelligence, internet ofthings, big data analytics, blockchain, cloud computing, quantum computing,virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality,intelligence-remediation-adaptation cyber security, and precision agriculture.
Physics includes robots, unmanned aerial vehicles, 3D printing, nanotechnology,technology for designing and manufacturing micro and small satellites, and photonictechnology.
Biotechnology includes synthetic biology, neurotechnology, stem cells, Enzymetechnology, bioinformatics, biochip and biosensor, regenerative medicine andtissue engineering, next-generation sequencing.
Priority technologies in energy and environment include fuel cells, hydrogenenergy, photovoltaics, advanced energy storage, carbon capture and storage,geothermal energy, smart grids./.