Recap of talk at Roboty 2020 in Brno, focusing on the strategic outlook for the industrial robotics sector in the next two decades.

1. Old markets, New markets
The changing face of
robotics?
A complex adaptive thinking guide

2. The robotics industry still has
bad rapport outside its filter
bubble

3. Pew 2018
(https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2018/09/13/in-advanced-and-emerging-economies-alike-wo
rries-about-job-automation/)
Is it fear or courage ?

4. But the biggest sources of
uncertainty are also the solution
ASIAN GROWTH
AGING POPULATION
BREXIT
CHINA + OBORhttp://uasr.xjtu.edu.cn/About_UASR/Introduction.ht
m
https://www.topchinatravel.com/silk-road/one-belt-o
ne-road.htm
https://www.ft.com/content/1dbd8c60-0cc6-11e6-ad80-67655613c
2d6
Chinese direct
investment lower
than media let on
Asia leads in robot
deployments due
to general growth
Made-in-China
2025

5. Past face
Automation made labour
more productive

6. Past to present
Automation directly making
processes more productive
-> true replacement

7. Past to present
1980s: Robots are taking human jobs!
2010s: Robots are taking more human jobs!
Fact check:
1983: First roboticized production line at VW
2017: 300% workforce growth in Production

8. Present to future
Robotics-first thinking?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/201
9/may/26/world-first-fruit-picking-robot-set-to-
work-artificial-intelligence-farming

9. Fear and loathing of
robotization are a
communication and
training problem.

10. But change is
afoot!

11. Robotics pivot?
Robotics focus is changing in highly
roboticized economies.
https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/118693/1/
Robotics.pdf
https://www.eu-robotics.net/cms/upload/topic_group
s/H2020_Robotics_Multi-Annual_Roadmap_ICT-20
17B.pdf

12. Robotics pivot?
Robotics focus is changing in highly
roboticized economies.
https://www.eu-robotics.net/cms/upload/topic_groups/H2020_Robotics_Multi-Annual_Road
map_ICT-2017B.pdf

13. The face of robotics is changing, particularly
in the robotic 1st world.
Retool everything?
Retrain everyone?
Not so fast.

14. Advanced industrialized countries
undergo change. But so will a new
set of nations:
OBOR
COUNTRIES
ARE THE NEXT
FRONTIER

15. https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/fileadmin/files/BSt/Publikationen/GrauePublikationen/Seidenstr_en_2019_final.pdf
https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/chieco/v47y2018icp189-205.html
Chinese direct
investment lower
than media let on

16. The Development gradient
ROBOTICIZED
ECONOMIES
OBOR+
Robotics as service layer
IoT, Cloud, ubiquitous
Computing -> flexible
manufacturing 4.0
Ind. Robotics as a
growth engine
Automation Tech
arbitrage in OBOR
countries?
No winner in the
automation game
in this region

17. How to adapt adequately
to a new environment?

18. Communication
Networks

19. Communication,
Networks
science.dodlive.mil

20. Face strategic challenges
as a network

21. New markets, known
opportunities.
Old markets, new
opportunities.
Dawid Golebiewski