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Inside the robotics industry today, artificial intelligence and automation are shifting from experimental to essential, and the numbers show why. Grand View Research estimates that industrial automation services will reach about 192 billion dollars in 2025 and grow to more than 320 billion dollars by 2030, with a compound annual growth rate above 10 percent. Precedence Research puts industrial automation and control systems at roughly 229 billion dollars this year, heading toward nearly 577 billion dollars by 2034. Thunderbit reports that around 60 percent of companies had implemented some form of automation by 2024, and adoption is still climbing.
On the technology front, the Robot Report highlights a wave of smarter industrial and collaborative robots, with embedded artificial intelligence for adaptive path planning, inline quality inspection, and predictive maintenance. Automate dot org reports that in the first three quarters of 2025, collaborative robot orders in North America reached more than four thousand units and about 156 million dollars in value, accounting for over 16 percent of robot units sold. This confirms that cobots are becoming a mainstream tool on factory floors rather than a niche experiment.
A timely news item comes from Universal Robots and its parent Teradyne. According to Universal Robots, the company is launching a new United States operations hub in metro Detroit, aimed at scaling artificial intelligence enabled collaborative robots for automotive and general industry. The company cites a survey of North American manufacturers showing that 73 percent invest in automation mainly for productivity, with 87 percent of existing cobot users seeing double digit productivity gains and more than 80 percent reporting positive employee sentiment toward robots. Another current story, reported by Behavioral Health Business, describes outpatient behavioral health providers turning to artificial intelligence powered robots and automation to cut costs in repetitive administrative work, freeing clinicians for higher value patient care.
Strategic analysis from Roland Berger notes that after a cooling investment climate in 2024 and limited growth in 2025, industrial automation is expected to reaccelerate through 2030, driven by digital transformation and sector specific tailwinds. Insight Ace Analytic projects that artificial intelligence in industrial automation alone could grow from about 20 billion dollars in 2024 to roughly 112 billion dollars by 2034, at close to 19 percent compound annual growth, underscoring how quickly intelligent control, computer vision, and reinforcement learning are being embedded into robots and control systems.
For practitioners inside factories, laboratories, and warehouses, three practical takeaways stand out. First, treat automation as a strategic program, not a collection of pilots: align robot deployments with clear productivity, safety, or quality metrics and insist on measurable return on investment. Second, design for human plus machine workflows. As Design News recently emphasized in its coverage of manufacturing and aerospace, the human advantage in the age of automation comes from letting robots handle hazardous, dull, or ultra precise tasks while people focus on creative problem solving, process improvement, and complex supervision. Third, build data infrastructure now. The predictive maintenance and adaptive control that vendors promise depend on clean, labeled machine and process data that many plants still lack.
Looking ahead, listeners should expect industrial robots and collaborative robots to become more modular, software defined, and increasingly managed through cloud based artificial intelligence systems. Vision guided manipulation, foundation models specialized for industrial tasks, and tighter integration with digital twins will move from cutting edge research into everyday production. Regions such as Asia Pacific, which Precedence Research values at more than 90 billion dollars for automation and control in 2025 with double digit growth, will continue to lead in deployment scale, while North America and Europe push standards around safety, sustainability, and interoperability.
For those inside the industry, the action items this week are clear. Revisit your automation roadmap against current market data, engage suppliers about artificial intelligence enabled upgrades to existing robot fleets, and invest in reskilling programs so operators can become automation supervisors and data literate problem solvers rather than manual machine tenders. The companies that win the next decade in robotics will be those that combine breakthrough technology with disciplined execution on the factory floor.
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