Automation

The industrial networking and connectivity market is becoming increasingly critical as manufacturers and industrial operators seek to modernize operations, improve resilience, and unlock greater value from operational data. As digital transformation initiatives expand, organizations are investing in networking infrastructure and connectivity soluti...

This study on industrial pump services provides an in-depth analysis of the key trends impacting OEM revenues and forecasts industry growth until 2030. It discusses market revenue by end user and the various services offered by leading pump vendors. It also provides a region-wise analysis of various services and related forecasts. Industrial pump s...

The Advanced Manufacturing Technology Opportunity Engine provides profiles of innovations related to autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) enabling pallet and trolley transportation across dynamic intralogistics environments; compact 6-axis robotic systems supporting modular and flexible laboratory automation; autonomous agricultural unmanned ground vehi...

The study evaluates photonic and optical computing technologies as critical enablers of next-generation AI infrastructure, addressing growing bandwidth, latency, power consumption, and scalability constraints associated with copper-based interconnects. The analysis covers photonic integrated circuits (PICs), optical I/O chiplets, co-packaged optics...

The escalating compute and power demands of edge AI are exposing the limits of conventional von Neumann architectures. Manufacturers deploying always-on sensing, real-time inference, and autonomous decision-making at the edge are constrained by the energy, latency, and memory-bandwidth ceilings of standard NPUs and MCUs. Traditionally, edge AI work...

Multimodal sensor fusion is an advanced perception technology that combines data from multiple sensors, including cameras, LiDAR, radar, ultrasonic sensors, thermal cameras, and inertial measurement units (IMUs), to give robots and autonomous systems a more accurate, reliable, and comprehensive understanding of their environment. It overcomes the l...

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...