Industry reports
One report per industry, published annually. Each covers what has been deployed, what is only claimed or demonstrated, who is buying, and what would need to be true before the work moves from pilot to production.
7 of 17 published
Core sectors
Sectors already buying humanoid and mobile robot work.
- Automotive Production2026 report →
Assembly plants, body shops, paint shops, line-side supply, quality inspection, and EV/battery adjacency.
- Manufacturing Material Flow2026 report →
Line-side supply, internal transport, kitting, replenishment, pallet movement, and cross-factory logistics.
- Maritime, Offshore & SubseaNot published
Vessels, hulls, offshore platforms and subsea infrastructure served by submersibles, hull-crawling climbing robots and deck-based mobile units performing inspection, cleaning and integrity survey.
- Oil, Gas & Chemicals2026 report →
Refineries, terminals, tank farms, chemical plants, hazardous inspection, and dangerous rounds.
- Warehouse, Fulfilment & 3PL2026 report →
Distribution centres, e-commerce fulfilment, 3PL operations, picking, putaway, and inventory scanning.
Second wave
Deployments exist; the evidence base is thinner.
- Agriculture & Protected CroppingNot published
Open fields, orchards and greenhouses where autonomous field robots and mobile crop-care platforms handle scouting, selective harvesting, weeding and produce transport.
- Construction & Built InfrastructureNot published
Active building sites, bridges, tunnels and civil assets where legged and tracked robots carry out progress scanning, as-built capture and structural inspection in environments that were never designed for wheeled automation.
- Food & Beverage2026 report →
Food and beverage plants, pallet movement, hygienic environments, packaging adjacency, and plant logistics.
- Mining & QuarryingNot published
Underground and open-pit extraction sites where quadrupeds and rugged mobile platforms handle ventilation checks, geotechnical survey and post-blast inspection in areas kept off-limits to people.
- Ports, Terminals & Yard LogisticsNot published
Container terminals, intermodal yards and outdoor logistics estates where autonomous outdoor mobile robots handle trailer moves, yard survey and gate-to-stack material flow.
- Power & Utilities2026 report →
Substations, generation sites, grid operations, transmission and distribution assets, and utility inspection.
- Security & Critical Infrastructure2026 report →
Perimeter patrol, data centres, energy sites, airports, ports, transport hubs, and large protected estates.
Watch list
Early or constrained work we track but do not rank.
- Healthcare & EldercareNot published
Hospitals, clinics and residential care settings where service humanoids and autonomous mobile robots move supplies, linens and specimens, and assist with routine patient-adjacent logistics.
- Nuclear & DecommissioningNot published
Reactor halls, hot cells and legacy waste facilities where remote-handling legged and tracked robots perform survey, characterisation and dismantling in environments with no safe human dwell time.
- Rail & Transit InfrastructureNot published
Track, tunnels, depots and rolling stock where autonomous inspection robots handle undercarriage survey, tunnel lining assessment and night-window track condition monitoring.
- Retail & HospitalityNot published
Stores, hotels and food service venues where wheeled-with-arm and humanoid service robots handle shelf audit, guest delivery, back-of-house restocking and front-of-house interaction.
- Telecom & Power Line InspectionNot published
Transmission corridors, distribution networks and telecom towers served by climbing robots and line-traversing platforms that inspect conductors, insulators and structures without de-energising the asset.