Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 11 -- Vietnam and Malaysia have strong potential to expand cooperation in the robotics industry, combining their complementary manufacturing capabilities to develop higher-value products and strengthen their positions in global value chains, according to a Malaysian expert.

Samirul Ariff Othman, a policy, economic and business analyst at Global Asia Consulting and visiting lecturer at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, said ASEAN's biggest short-term commercial opportunities in industrial robotics lay in specialised manufacturing, system integration and practical applications.

Speaking to Vietnam News Agency correspondents in Malaysia, he noted that the region's deep integration into global production networks had given i...