U.S. Transportation Industry to Increasingly Adopt Robotics
Primary barriers to adoption include data security and privacy concerns, alignment with existing legacy framework, and associated costs of technology adoption.
In a recent B2B technology survey of 455 U.S.-based companies across nine verticals, ABI Research found that 30% of transportation industry respondents plan to introduce robotics into their business operations within the next year, with another 22% actively assessing the technology. Despite notable near-term progress in robotics deployments among the respondents to support e-commerce and delivery growth, their lack of familiarity with nascent technologies such as AR, Blockchain, 5G, autonomous vehicles, AI, and the related ecosystem for transportation technologies is impacting potential adoption.
“Transportation providers may view intelligent transportation technologies as solutions to evolve their existing transportation operations vs. opportunities for developing new revenue streams and business models,” said Susan Beardslee, senior analyst. “These players also show concern for legacy systems integration and comprehension of the complexity/fragmentation of their supply chain.”