Experts look ahead at the next 20 years of robotics at RoboBusiness
THE SO WHAT
A 20-year robotics horizon forces a harder question than 'what can we automate'—it's 'which workflows do we want to design around robots as first-class participants.' If you're in logistics, manufacturing, or field services, you should be mapping which parts of your stack you expect to be robot-native versus human-native by the mid-2030s.
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