Robotics & Autonomy Reports and Subscriptions

This report characterizes the humanoid robotics markets, technologies, and players. Coverage across humanoids in automotive, home-use and logistics industries, technical analysis of critical humanoid robot components, historic market data from 2023-2025 and market forecasts from 2026 to 2036. The humanoid robot market across automotive, logistics, and home-use applications is forecast to increase rapidly over the next five years, reaching around US$25 billion by the early 2030s, before growth moderates and the market gradually moves towards saturation by 2036 (US$29.5 billion).

IDTechEx forecasts significant growth in the global drone market through 2036, driven by rising commercial adoption across agriculture, logistics, inspection, military, and emergency response. The Drone Market 2026-2036 report provides a comprehensive analysis of the global drone market, covering both commercial drones and consumer UAVs, and includes detailed segmentation across fixed-wing and rotary-wing platforms. This report offers a fully rebuilt drone market forecast, incorporating updated historical data, 10-year volume and revenue projections, and scenario-based outlooks across eight major application areas. In addition to market sizing, the report examines key enabling technologies, including autonomy, navigation systems, SLAM, flight-control architectures, and drone sensors such as cameras, LiDAR, radar, IMUs, and pressure and ultrasonic sensors. IDTechEx also presents an updated sensor-per-drone forecast and a long-term drone sensor market outlook, providing insights into payload trends and hardware requirements. Supported by a fully updated global regulatory analysis and over 100 pages of application-level research, this report helps stakeholders -- drone manufacturers, operators, investors, and regulators -- better understand where market opportunities lie, how regulatory frameworks shape deployment, and which technologies are most likely to define the next decade of UAV innovation.

Service robots are becoming increasingly popular. This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the major application areas of service robots, including delivery and logistics robots, cleaning and disinfection robots, social robots, agricultural robots, kitchen and restaurant robots, underwater robots, construction robots, and search and rescue robots. It covers key technologies, market analysis, and 10-year granular regional market forecasts. The report provides an understanding of the market dynamics, competitive landscape, market outlook, and promising applications.

IDTechEx's Autonomous Vehicle Software Market report provides a holistic overview of the current cutting edge of autonomous driving sensors, introducing hardware and regulations before moving on to different approaches to software for ADAS and autonomous driving. It analyses key developments from players such as Waymo and Tesla, and also enabling technologies such as HD maps, steer-by-wire, and the applications of AI for software and software development. The report includes a 20-year forecast of the automotive software industry, separated by region and SAE level, forecasted in US$ and annual unit sales.

IDTechEx's Passenger Car ADAS Market report provides a comprehensive analysis of the advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) market, covering L2, L2+, and L3 passenger vehicles from a technology and market perspective. The report offers deep insight into the technologies available from leading private vehicle OEMs, as well as the ADAS hardware and software suppliers that support these systems. Additionally, the report examines the ADAS functions included in these vehicles, analyzing their capabilities, market adoption trends, and regulatory landscape. Complete with a 20-year forecast, this report provides a regional breakdown of the passenger car ADAS market, with projections in US dollars and annual unit sales.

This report offers an in-depth analysis of the current technologies used for in-cabin sensors, including IR sensors, ToF sensors, radars, torque and capacitive steering sensors, and other emerging technologies, as well as the roadmap of technologies moving forward. It also provides an overview of regional regulations, along with their impacts on the adoption of technologies enabling driver monitoring and occupant monitoring. The report also covers emerging trends in automotive OEMs, such as integrating AI features and software-defined vehicle features (e.g., vital signal monitoring, smart interiors, infotainment, etc.), reducing the costs of hardware, and leverage the existing in-cabin sensors to achieve more functions and monetize them.

Radar has grown its presence in the automotive market for two and a half decades. In 2024, more than 140 million automotive radars will be shipped, but there is still room for growth. This report covers all major trends and growth factors impacting radar in the automotive market, such as new safety standards, emerging ADAS features, and the drive for more autonomous vehicles. The report also covers evolving radar technologies, such as 4D imaging radars, movement to more advanced semiconductor technologies, distributed radar systems, and new antenna technologies. The growth in radar and technical evolution is captured in IDTechEx's 20-year market forecast covering unit sales, revenue, radar by virtual channel count, radar transceiver semiconductor technology, radar operating frequency, and low-loss material for automotive radar.

Thanks to the low capital barrier, easy programming, and increasing human-machine collaboration, collaborative robots are becoming increasingly popular. This report provides a comprehensive analysis of significant applications of collaborative robots by end industries, including automotive manufacturing, semiconductor, EV battery recycling, food and beverage, electronics, healthcare and hospitality, semiconductor and end tasks including picking and placing, machine tending, palletizing, packaging, inspection, and material handling. The report covers critical technologies, component-level analysis, recent market news and trends, pricing and pain points, market analysis, and 20-year granular market forecasts by regions, end industries, and tasks. In addition, the report provides an understanding of the market dynamics, competitive landscape, market outlook, and promising applications.

IDTechEx's Autonomous Vehicles Market report provides holistic coverage of the automotive industry and robotaxi sector from an autonomous driving technology perspective. The report gives deep insight into the technologies available from leading private vehicle OEMs and the state of commercial robotaxi development and deployment. The report is complete with a 20-year forecast of the automotive industry separated by region and SAE level, forecasted in US$ and annual unit sales.

This report characterizes the automotive infrared camera markets, technologies, and players. Coverage on NIR cameras, ToF cameras, SWIR cameras, and LWIR cameras. Using historic data from 2020-2023 to forecast from 2025 to 2035. This reveals the market opportunities and applications of IR camera technologies in in-cabin sensing and ADAS, forecast to grow to almost US$5 billion by 2035.

This report characterizes the Roboshuttles and Autonomous Buses markets, technologies, and players. Coverage across several players in 15 countries provides a detailed analysis of the players and activities. Contextualized through historical sales data dating back to 2019, with regional granularity across China, Europe, the USA, and the rest of the World (RoW), and coverage market forecasts from 2024 to 2044. It reveals significant opportunity, with the Roboshuttles and Autonomous Buses markets forecast to grow to over US$67bn by 2044.

This report characterizes the Autonomous Trucks markets, technologies, and players. Coverage across more than 10 players in different countries, provides a detailed analysis of the players and activities. Contextualized through historical sales data dating back to 2019, with regional granularity across China, Europe, the USA, and the rest of the World (RoW), and coverage market forecasts from 2024 to 2044, it is the most comprehensive study compiled for this product area. It reveals significant opportunity, with the Autonomous Trucks markets forecast to grow to over US$120bn by 2044.

The lidar market for automotive application will grow to $9.5 billion by 2034. The demand for lidars to be adopted in the automotive industry drives the huge investment and rapid progression of lidars, with the innovations in beam steering technologies and performance improvement & cost reduction in lidar transceiver components. These efforts can enable lidars to be implemented in a wider application scenario beyond conventional usage and automobiles. IDTechEx leverages its experiences such as in laser physics, semiconductor, optics, sensors, optoelectronics, and transportation, to provide a comprehensive analysis on technologies, products, current status and future trend. 10-year market forecasts on lidar units and market value with a focus on automotives have been provided. IDTechEx also provides a spread sheet of a selection of existing and near-future lidar adoptions in the automotive sector.

Autonomous driving and electrification are changing the automotive industry irrevocably. In addition to these megatrends, connected and software defined vehicles have recently shown opportunity for new and lucrative revenue streams, while in-cabin sensing is set to evolve automotive safety through new hardware based applications. This report provides a high level overview of all these new automotive technologies and forecasts a US$1.6 trillion opportunity in 2034. Learn which of these provides the greatest potential and whether services or hardware will dominate the market.

This report analyzes the mobile robotics market, technologies, funding, and players. Coverage across 15 robots across 4 major applications. Historic market data from 2019-2022 and 20 year market forecasts. It reveals significant opportunity, with the yearly mobile robotics market forecast to grow to around US$150 billion by 2044.

A robot, as a machine with autonomy, requires a suite of sensors. This report provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art sensing technologies for robots and emerging trends. The report provides granular annual volume and market size forecasts of different sensors by 29 different robots/applications and sensor types, giving a strong understanding of which sensors and robot applications are seeing the fastest increase in the next 20 years.