Automation Market Research Reports

Manufacturers are confronting a skilled labor shortage. As they try to find a solution, augmented connected worker (ACW) platforms can become a key ally in training the new workforce and strengthening employee retention through comprehensive upskilling capabilities, skills management tools, and assistance throughout their shifts. ACW platforms have...

The Advanced Manufacturing Technology Opportunity Engine provides profiles of innovations related to cobot-enabled vacuum gripping technology supporting flexible pick-and-place automation across dynamic manufacturing environments; automated build-job depowdering systems improving metal additive manufacturing powder handling and post-processing effi...

This study focuses on heterogeneous computing architectures for automotive and robotics applications, examining how centralized and zonal compute architectures, heterogeneous SoCs integrating CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, DSPs, FPGAs, and dedicated safety islands, as well as robotics edge-AI controllers and mixed-criticality computing platforms, are enabling t...

This study examines the technology landscape, commercialization progress, and future growth opportunities of wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor materials, with a primary focus on silicon carbide (SiC), gallium nitride (GaN), and gallium oxide (Ga₂O₃) for power and RF electronics. It evaluates how these materials enable higher efficiency, greater ...

As manufacturers and industrial operators try to make operational data more accessible, interoperable, secure, and usable across enterprise environments, organizations are investing in industrial connectivity software that can connect heterogeneous OT assets, bridge legacy protocols, support edge-to-cloud data flows, and enable scalable industrial ...

Hybrid vision systems (HVS) are positioned to substantially impact perception-driven applications across a diverse array of sectors, including robotics, manufacturing, logistics, mobility, surveillance, and agriculture. By intricately combining the geographical precision of LiDAR with the semantic intelligence of advanced imaging systems, these inn...

The increasing volatility of global supply chains is driving interest in microfactories and distributed manufacturing. Manufacturers aim to improve production flexibility, reduce reliance on lengthy logistics routes, and enhance resilience in times of disruption. Traditionally, manufacturing networks have been optimized for centralized production, ...

The Advanced Manufacturing Technology Opportunity Engine highlights a broad spectrum of innovations across Concrete 3D Printing, Metal Depowdering, Tote-to-Person Warehouse AMR, Physical AI Robot, Collaborative Robot, Ultra-Bionic Humanoid Robot, AI-Powered Mobile Manipulator, Physical AI Workplace Humanoid and Others.

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The Economic Trend Opportunity Profiles (TOPs) series captures a structural shift in the global economy where national competitiveness is increasingly defined by control over AI capabilities, digital infrastructure, industrial capacity, and secure data ecosystems. Across AI-led productivity, smart manufacturing, digital risk, sovereign compute infr...