Signal Report forecasts 80 percent of warehouses using robotics or automation by 2028

Summary

Gartner forecasts that by 2028, four in five warehouses will employ robotics or automation. The prediction is the headline figure for its trend on physical AI, which spans robots, drones, vehicles and smart devices able to perceive, choose and act. According to Gartner, such systems link sensors and actuators with AI models so that physical work gets done. The motivation is that organisations want the productivity they gained from digital AI carried over into physical settings. The warehouse figure is the only adoption forecast in the chapter, and no method or baseline is provided for it.