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October 1, 2025 3 mins
This is you Robotics Industry Insider: AI & Automation News podcast.

Welcome to Robotics Industry Insider: AI and Automation News. As we move into the first week of October 2025, the robotics industry stands at an inflection point, powered by groundbreaking technologies and bold industrial partnerships. This year alone, more than half a million new robots were installed globally, with Asia accounting for almost three-quarters of the expansion; China now claims more than half the worldwide market. The global industrial automation and control systems sector is expected to hit two hundred twenty-six billion dollars in 2025, on track to reach nearly four hundred billion by the end of the decade, fueled by double-digit annual growth. The push for smarter, safer, and more flexible automation is relentless, and despite economic headwinds and short-term slowdowns, the sector’s long-term trajectory remains upward.

In recent news, NVIDIA has unveiled its Isaac GR00T foundation model, delivering robots with remarkably humanlike reasoning, while ABB rolled out a generative artificial intelligence assistant for RobotStudio, making robot programming more accessible and boosting productivity on the manufacturing floor. In retail, Brain Corp and Driveline have piloted ShelfOptix, pairing robot shelf scanning with human teams to bridge a one point seven trillion dollar inventory distortion gap—proving robots are now essential not just for manufacturing but for everyday business challenges.

From an insider’s perspective, the biggest breakthrough lies in the fusion of artificial intelligence with robotics. Robots are no longer just repetitive machines. With sophisticated sensors, computer vision, large language models, and spatial reasoning, robots can now interact and collaborate with human workers, adapt to changing environments, and learn from real-world feedback. The shift to collaborative robotics, or cobots, is especially pronounced as industries grapple with skilled labor shortages and rising operational costs. These intelligent cobots are quickly being adopted in manufacturing and logistics settings, seamlessly integrating into workflows and even learning from human demonstrations.

To stay competitive, practical takeaways for industry leaders include investing in digital transformation, using artificial intelligence-driven maintenance and predictive analytics to reduce downtime, and exploring government incentives that promote sustainable automation. Partnerships between regions like Silicon Valley and Switzerland are sparking innovative solutions, blending software, simulation, and precision engineering. Looking forward, the automation landscape promises even greater connectivity through the Industrial Internet of Things, bringing real-time data and synchronized production at scale.

Thank you for tuning in to Robotics Industry Insider. Join us next week for more insights on the technologies, breakthroughs, and business impacts shaping automation’s future. This has been a Quiet Please production. For more, check out Quiet Please Dot A I.


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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to robotics industry insider, AI and automation news. As
we move into the first week of October twenty twenty five,
the robotics industry stands at an inflection point, powered by
groundbreaking technologies and bold industrial partnerships. This year alone, more
than half a million new robots were installed globally, with
Asia accounting for almost three quarters of the expansion. China

(00:23):
now claims more than half the worldwide market. The global
industrial automation and control system sector is expected to hit
two hundred and twenty six billion dollars in twenty twenty five,
on track to reach nearly four hundred billion by the
end of the decade, fueled by double digit annual growth.
The push for smarter, safer, and more flexible automation is relentless,

(00:44):
and despite economic headwinds and short term slowdowns, the sector's
long term trajectory remains upward. In recent news, Nvidia has
unveiled its ISAAC groot foundation model, delivering robots with remarkably
human like reasoning, while abbas be rolled out a generative
Artificial Intelligence Assistant for Robots studio, making robot programming more

(01:06):
accessible and boosting productivity on the manufacturing floor. In retail,
Braincorp and drive Line have piloted shelf optics carrying robot
shelf scanning with human teams to bridge a one point
seven trillion dollar inventory distortion gap. Proving robots are now
essential not just for manufacturing, but for everyday business challenges.

(01:27):
From an insider's perspective, the biggest breakthrough lies in the
fusion of artificial intelligence with robotics. Robots are no longer
just repetitive machines. With sophisticated sensors, computer vision, large language models,
and spatial reasoning, robots can now interact and collaborate with
human workers, adapt to changing environments, and learn from real
world feedback. The shift to collaborative robotics or cobots is

(01:51):
especially pronounced as industries grapple with skilled labor shortages and
rising operational costs. These intelligent cobots are quickly being adopted
in manufacturing and logistics settings, seamlessly integrating into workflows and
even learning from human demonstrations to stay competitive. Practical takeaways
for industry leaders include investing in digital transformation, using artificial

(02:13):
intelligence driven maintenance and predictive analytics to reduce downtime and
exploring government incentives that promote sustainable automation. Partnerships between regions
like Silicon Valley in Switzerland are sparking innovative solutions blending software,
simulation and precision engineering. Looking forward, the automation randscape promises

(02:34):
even greater connectivity through the industrial Internet of Things, bringing
real time data and synchronized production at scale. Thank you
for tuning in to Robotics Industry Insider. Join us next
week for more insights on the technologies, breakthroughs, and business
impacts shaping automation's future. This has been a quiet please production.

(02:55):
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