The Next Robotics Market, A Massive Robotics Opportunity

You have seen the news, read the announcements and analyzed the reports. The robotics sector continues to expand rapidly, with new products, services and companies continually emerging, and supporting an ever-increasing range of applications across the consumer, commercial, and civil markets. Ongoing technological advances, along with dramatically increasing levels of investment, ensures that the proliferation of robotics systems into all aspects of society will continue, and at an ever-accelerating rate.

The Next Robotics Opportunity
To date, robotics opportunities for robotics solution provider value chain has been largely, and almost exclusively, limited to industrial, commercial and consumer systems used in indoor environments. Recently, however, news eminating from the business, investment and technical press, along with announcements of new research, new funding rounds, new company launches and acquisitions, give evidence to the emergence of a unique (and massive) commercial robotics sector – Field Robotics. In contrast to traditional industrial and consumer robots, field robotics systems are designed for operation in wide-ranging, outdoor, unstructured and dynamic environments, such as construction worksites, open mines, and farm fields, as well as busy urban centers. Field robots, robotics systems designed for operation in outdoor environments, are linked to some of the world’s largest industries such as energy, mining, agriculture, construction and more.