Belonging to the robotics and industrials sectors means this company will be affected directly and indirectly by a number of disruptive opportunities and challenges over the coming decades. While described in detail within Quantumrun’s special reports, these disruptive trends can be summarized along the following broad points:

*First off, the shrinking cost and increasing computational capacity of artificial intelligence (AI) systems will lead to its greater use across a number of applications within the robotics and automation sector.

*Likewise, Moore’s law will continue to advance the computational capacity and data storage of electronic hardware, enabling future robots to become more adaptable and competent across a range of applications.

*The shrinking cost and increasing functionality of advanced manufacturing robotics and 3D printing (additive manufacturing) will lead to further automation of factory assembly lines, thereby improving manufacturing quality and costs.

*Advances in nanotech and material sciences will result in a range of materials that are stronger, lighter, heat and impact resistant, shapeshifting, among other exotic properties. These new materials will enable significantly novel design and engineering possibilities that will impact the manufacture of a vast swath of current and future robotics products.

*Among millennials and Gen Zs, the growing cultural trend towards less consumerism, towards investing money into experiences over physical goods, will also lead to a minor reduction in general consumption levels and revenue, per consumer. This will indirectly impact manufacturing robotics sales. However, a growing global population and the increasingly wealthy African and Asian nations will make up for this revenue shortfall.