How software defined-automation is shaping manufacturing for the AI …
Feb 10, 2026 · SDA is fast becoming 'the force' in the next era of industrial automation, enabling truly smart manufacturing operations, resilient supply chains and sustainability.
Physical AI in Industrial Operations | World Economic Forum
Sep 4, 2025 · Industrial operations are at a pivotal moment, shaped by rising complexity and workforce shortages, and further amplified by global uncertainties. This white paper explores how advances in …
Sustainability: Electrification and automation of energy
Jan 14, 2026 · And electrification and automation offer huge, untapped potential for energy savings in industry, buildings, transport and infrastructure. Electricity can be consumed more efficiently than …
The rise in automation and what it means for the future
Apr 7, 2021 · Automation drives down costs, improves agility and makes new business models practical, with a potential upside of more than tenfold improvement in efficiency. The elephant in the room, …
How AI is transforming the factory floor | World Economic Forum
Oct 22, 2024 · A global automation programme guides factory-scale adoption and use-case sharing, governed by central and local digital transformation offices, with plans to establish a lighthouse …
Four ways AI and talent trends could reshape jobs by 2030
Jan 7, 2026 · A new World Economic Forum report explores how AI advances and talent trends could shape the future of jobs, in four plausible scenarios for the coming years.
How robotics and AI solutions could reshape heavy industry
May 20, 2025 · Heavy industry remains one of the last frontiers of automation, yet a new center demonstrates how AI and robotics can transform how we build physical infrastructure.
The Future of Jobs Report 2025 | World Economic Forum
Jan 7, 2025 · Technological change, geoeconomic fragmentation, economic uncertainty, demographic shifts and the green transition – individually and in combination are among the major drivers …
Future of Jobs Report 2025: These are the fastest growing and …
Jan 9, 2025 · The Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025 examines how broadening digital access is affecting the world of work – and looks at the fastest growing and declining job roles.
Chief economists have clear ideas about AI productivity gains
Jan 16, 2026 · The latest Chief Economists' Outlook includes a upbeat outlook on AI-related productivity gains. We asked three experts to expand on where and when those will emerge.