Recent strains on supply systems and product gaps have highlighted the need for better supply chain efficiency. An AGV transporting goods in a warehouseĪs a result, the intralogistics market for mobile robots in manufacturing is expected to grow from $9bn in 2022 to top $36bn by 2030 according to ABI Research. This has industry-wide usage ranging from automotive, chemicals, electrical and electronics to food and beverages and is “currently booming”, according to analysts. ![]() Industrial roboticsīoth AGVs and AMRs are deployed in warehouses for intralogistics, an application that includes various sub-applications such as material handling, machine tending, as well as bin-picking. According to ABI Research, this autonomy is enabled through ML models such as object detection, localisation and collision avoidance, motion planning for navigation and manipulation, pose estimation, and sensor integration. It is why the industrial robotics market is projected to grow from $15.7 billion in 2022 to $30.8bn by 2027 and the global robotics market to reach $74.1 billion by 2026, growing at 17.45%, a year.Īpart from industrial robotics arms, more form factors have emerged in recent years, such as Collaborative Robots (cobots), Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs) and Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS), and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).Ī common denominator across all these types is their ability to perceive and make sense of their surrounding environment. Robots are also key to the future of work outside the factory floor, spanning industries from travel and hospitality, healthcare and assisted living, education, and even traditional offices. Yet robotics usage today is neither of these things, according to the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which predicts that “today’s robots are designed to work alongside, move amongst, and be worn by human workers”. Yet for years workers remained assured that the reality of robotics was far more mundane, taking the form of heavy automated and caged industrial equipment used to assemble cars or manufacture packaged goods in a factory. ![]() Robots in the workplace, and workers’ suspicions of them is nothing new, Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent film Metropolis documented the rise of the machines (and their ultimate demise) way before the Terminator franchise and I, Robot became box office smashes.
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