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The Rise of the Robots

They're everywhere! Little robots scurrying about, doing the jobs that humans don't want to do!

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Publish Date	2023-01-06
Updated Date	2026-09-18
Horizon	now
Confidence	medium

Originally published as 23 Trends for 2023: #20 The Rise of the Robots on January 06, 2023.

This record preserves item #20 in Jim Carroll’s 23 Trends For 2023 series as a structured historical trend in the futurist.info knowledge graph.

They’re everywhere! Little robots scurrying about, doing the jobs that humans don’t want to do!

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Industries Manufacturing & Industrial
Industries Automotive & Transportation
Industries Technology & Telecom

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Domains Connectivity & Digital Experience
Domains Robotics & Manufacturing
Domains AI & Machine Intelligence

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IndustriesManufacturing & IndustrialManufacturing is becoming an intelligent, adaptive system in which software, robotics, materials science and data increasingly define physical production.IndustriesAutomotive & TransportationThe vehicle is becoming a computer, a battery, a data platform and an increasingly autonomous node inside a larger mobility system.IndustriesTechnology & TelecomConnectivity is becoming ubiquitous while intelligence moves everywhere: cloud, edge, devices, networks and autonomous systems increasingly operate as one fabric.DomainsConnectivity & Digital ExperiencePervasive connectivity, immersive interfaces and the blending of physical and digital experiences.DomainsRobotics & ManufacturingRobotics, automation, digital manufacturing and new production systems that connect software intelligence to the physical world.DomainsAI & Machine IntelligenceArtificial intelligence, machine learning, generative systems and autonomous agents that increasingly perform cognitive work.

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