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CairoScene
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To the Ancestors, Human & Non-Human: Ayman Zedani on Holistic Kinship
"To the ancestors, human and non-human." That's the line Ayman Zedani signs off with in his emails. It's less poetic flourish than a philosophical stance. Something you may find inscribed in a manifesto. And in many ways, it frames everything that followed. Ayman Zedani is a Saudi artist whose work explores what he calls the "holistic kinship" between all forms of life on the Arabian Peninsula. The email signature is a statement of intent that becomes clearer as we settle into conversation. Zedani grew up near the Sarawat Mountains of Saudi Arabia's Aseer region, a long range of peaks that fundamentally shaped his vision. "I saw a lot of species there, and that was just the norm then," he explains, his voice carrying the measured cadence of someone who has spent considerable time thinking about our place in the natural world. "The importance of growing in these areas shaped my vision. It wasn't that I was surrounded by nature, it's that I was of it.' He moved to Riyadh when he was 15, a shift that proved revelatory. "It was a very different territory from what I was used to. There's something so mystical about the desert; it created a necessity, the importance of visiting these places again." And he did, conceptually. This move became the foundation for what he describes as "a personal project to establish my relationship with the Arabian Peninsula." But for Zedani, the personal and the ecological are inseparable. "Human and non-human, I don't really separate these things. Through time, this has become the basis of us as a species: we separate ourselves from anything non-human. But I went back to revisit them. Humans are the expression of nature itself. We are like passengers in a spaceship that contains us and everything around us." Zedani's philosophy seems to echo the 17th-century Dutch philosopher Spinoza, who argued against the Cartesian separation of mind and matter, proposing instead that everything in the universe is part of a single substance. "There's a holistic kinship about everything," he continues, and you sense this isn't theoretical for him; it's the animating principle of his practice. Zedani tells me about the agricultural terraces of his childhood, structures that reveal the sophisticated ecological thinking of earlier generations. "Growing up in Aseer, they used to refer to these terraces as 'sudud', dams. They were actually thinking of these works in relation to water, not food, the way water was distributed to the land and to humans." The 2020 fires in Aseer, which destroyed large patches of forest, revealed the deeper wisdom of these ancient systems. "These terraces reflect the narrative of the region. The clay-like soil there doesn't absorb water fast, so it turns into flash floods. You hear about people being washed away by these floods, but these terraces were designed to give water enough time to be absorbed by the soil." In Aseer, where water is not scarce, but sudden and overwhelming. The terraces were designed less for storing crops than for managing the volatile behaviour of rain. They slowed the descent of water across clay-heavy slopes, giving it time to seep into the soil rather than tear through the landscape in flash floods. This interpretation of terracing as hydrological infrastructure, an elegant choreography between land and water, stands in striking contrast to how terraces function elsewhere. In the arid zones of the Mediterranean, for instance, terraces cling to rocky hillsides not to delay abundance but to trap what little rain arrives. In the monsoon-soaked highlands of the Philippines, they become rice basins, synchronising with cycles of excess. And in the Andes, they serve as vertical ecosystems, responding to gradients of altitude and temperature as much as water. Across the world, terraces reflect not just agricultural necessity but cultural perception, what each society believes about water, time, and the land's temperament based on what they experience. This kind of traditional knowledge, what he calls "water harvesting from different perspectives," forms the backbone of his artistic practice. "I love to work with people in botany, archaeology and more, identifying our surroundings," he explains. "There's always a protagonist for each project, weaving factual information with fiction to reimagined the future. The practice looks into creating new stories, something really curious with a lot of contributors, weaving them into the project." One of his most compelling investigations centres on the Arabian Sea Humpback whales of the Arabian Sea, a project that began with disturbing Soviet-era research and is called Between Desert Seas. "These whales are unique," Zedani explains, his tone shifting. "There was a research paper from the Soviet Union documenting a mission where they came to the sea and killed as many whales as possible, they killed 60% of the population. As they were opening them up, some had food, some were pregnant." The tragedy led to an extraordinary discovery. When scientists took DNA tests from beached whales, they realised they were looking at a unique subspecies isolated in the Arabian Sea for an estimated 70,000 years. "They are not responding to other whales in other oceans when exposed to open seas, thousands of years in solitude. These whales developed their own language, their own song, their own culture," Zedani notes. Through the Environment Society of Oman, he encountered people who had lived alongside these creatures for generations. "I met people who had encountered these whales and called them by specific names, champ, Luban, and others." This layering of scientific and traditional knowledge becomes central to his approach. His installation work around the whales incorporates the story of Prophet Yunus, creating what he calls "spiritual ecology." The installation draws from both scientific research and spiritual narrative. At its core, it explores the ecological discoveries of the Arabian Sea, including the identification of a genetically unique whale population, and weaves them together with the story of the Prophet Yunus, who was swallowed by a whale and cast into darkness. 'It's a multilayered sonic installation that renegotiates our relationship with the seas surrounding the Arabian Peninsula,' Zedani explains. The piece gathers recordings made throughout the research process, whale songs, oceanic data, local oral histories, into an immersive sound environment. "The salt part references desalination and the hyper-salinity happening now with climate change, it took the place of fire. And there's darkness, like what Yunus experienced. "What you see in the artwork is just the tip of the iceberg," Zedani reflects. Hazek, a village in Oman situated just metres from where the whales come to feed. Until 2017, when a road finally connected it to the rest of the country, the village was completely isolated, accessible only by sea. "They developed their own cultures," he explains. "The women of the village are free divers, I found a woman in her 60s who could free dive for seven minutes." The villagers call the whales Sultan el Bahar – the King of the Sea. Language itself becomes a medium for exploration. His relationship with Arabic, "whether as a language, a script, or a sonic texture," influences his work in unexpected ways. "The works have both subtitles and titles, but the subtitles are not mirror translations," he explains. "I learned how to write Nabataean scripts, all mirrors of the Arabic language. The way Nabataeans used to speak was in Arabic, but they wrote in their own script. This linguistic archaeology connects to his current project in AlUla, where he's working to "recreate a certain narrative in relation to the burial tombs" using Nabataean script. He is crafting a new narrative about the tombs and burial sites that evoke the mythic and symbolic landscape of the Arabian past. The core sentence that Zedani wrote to anchor the project on reads: "إلى النسور مفاتيح الجسور لتسمح لنا العبور من خلال القبور إلى ما وراء النجوم" 'To the eagles, the keys of bridges, to grant us passage through the graves to what lies beyond the stars.' 'It seems like Saudi has opened a portal," Zedani says, reflecting on the cultural changes happening in the kingdom. "And it's important to tie it to our ancestral history." Zedani speaks of what he calls 'cultural pollination' taking place in AlUla, where craftspeople from regions with similar desert ecologies are invited to contribute their knowledge. One example is the team brought from Egypt's Siwa Oasis, renowned for its centuries-old mud-brick construction techniques, to help revive sustainable building practices in the area. 'AlUla brought people from Siwa to share their methods,' Zedani explains. 'It's a kind of cross-desert knowledge exchange—responding to similar climates with inherited techniques.' Zedani reflects positively on his experience with NEOM, the ambitious megacity project on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast. "They invited us to go there for three months, and we were fascinated that most of the work is ecological, discovery of new species, and the largest coral nursery in the region. All water is recycled." His perspective reflects a pragmatic approach to navigating Saudi Arabia's complex transformation. "The thing about artists is that we are border crossers," he says. "We dream about how these things connect. What really interests me is what allows me to look into ecology." This border-crossing extends to knowledge systems themselves. He references Indigenous Australian academic Tyson Yunkaporta's concept of 'TEK' – traditional ecological knowledge – as opposed to Western technology. "Indigenous TEK versus tech," he summarises, highlighting the difference between wisdom systems rooted in place and those that extract and commodify. Blue holes, earthquakes, coral nurseries, his practice encompasses the full spectrum of Arabian Peninsula ecology. "The mountains, the desert, and the sea," he says, as if describing the three acts of an epic story. Which, in a sense, he is. His work becomes a form of cultural archaeology, excavating ways of being that might offer alternatives to the extractive logic of contemporary development. So much of Zedani's work rests not in what it declares, but in what it chooses to attend to, a practice built on listening rather than speaking, observing rather than capturing. The desert, the mountains, the sea, in his cosmology, these are not symbolic backdrops but living archives, sites of memory and intelligence. To read them requires patience. To misread them risks erasure, not just of ecological history, but of ourselves. Ayman Zedani resists the usual binaries, insider or outsider, artist or activist. What matters more to him is presence. Not presence in the art world, but in the landscape itself, walking it, listening to it, allowing it to reframe what art can be.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
What a Spiral in the Oort Cloud Could Mean for Life on Earth
A routine planetarium show at New York's Hayden Planetarium just triggered a potentially historic discovery in astrophysics. While curating scenes for 'Encounters in the Milky Way,' a team of scientists and animators stumbled across something surprising: a spiral structure hidden within the data modeling the Oort Cloud, which is one of the most mysterious regions in our solar system. The Oort Cloud, theorized to be a spherical shell of icy objects orbiting far beyond Neptune, has long remained unseen. Yet when astrophysicist Jackie Faherty noticed the unexpected shape during a simulation, she called in Oort Cloud expert David Nesvorny to investigate, according to a CNN report. It wasn't an animation glitch. It was real data. Nesvorny, who had generated the simulation, admitted he'd never viewed his data in three-dimensional Cartesian coordinates. When he did, the spiral structure emerged clearly. 'Weird way to discover things,' he said. 'I should know my data better.' This accidental find prompted Nesvorny to run weeks of simulations on NASA's Pleiades Supercomputer. Every model confirmed it: a spiral, caused not by the sun's gravity alone, but by the galactic tide—the pull of the Milky Way's own gravitational field acting on the outermost parts of our solar system. Ultimately, he published the findings in The Astrophysics Journal. The discovery reshapes long-held assumptions. While the outer Oort Cloud might still be spherical, the inner part appears to twist in a spiral pattern, suggesting our solar system is more dynamically connected to the galaxy than once thought. Still, verifying the spiral won't be easy. The icy bodies in the Oort Cloud are too small and distant to observe directly. Even with the powerful new Vera C. Rubin Observatory, scientists expect to find only a handful—far short of the numbers needed to fully confirm the structure. But as Faherty put it, the dome of a planetarium can now double as a tool of discovery. 'This is science that hasn't had time to reach your textbook yet,' she said. What a Spiral in the Oort Cloud Could Mean for Life on Earth first appeared on Men's Journal on Jun 11, 2025
Time of India
06-06-2025
- Science
- Time of India
Mind meets Mantra: Dance of matter and self
By Vijay Hashia Mind and matter have always been a conundrum of human curiosity. Is mind matter or vice versa? How can a non-physical mind be linked to matter? Philosophers have explored various perspectives. While dualism closely associated with Réne Descartes, holds that the mind is a non-physical substance, distinct from physical body, associated with consciousness and self-awareness; others such as, William Hasker's emergent dualism states that the mind emerges from and is dependent on the physical body but remains distinct; JP Moreland and Johan Foster's Thomistic dualism emphasises mind-body almost similar to Cartesian dualism. These views contrast with physicalism and enactivism, which argue that all mental phenomena can be explained in terms of physical processes and the role of embodied interaction, respectively. Since dualism asserts that the human mind is immaterial and disembodied, the mind could continue to exist even after the body dies. Still, it fails to explain how the non-physical mind can interact with the physical body. How can something which isn't made of matter influence others? This mind-matter interaction, therefore, remains a significant challenge for dualists due to limited interpretations. In Hindu thought, the mind is generally viewed as a subtle form of matter, a derivative of Prakriti, nature or matter, rather than a separate entity. While there is a distinction between consciousness and the mind, it is not a complete separation, as propagated in Western dualistic thought. Advaita Vedanta states that manas, the lower mind, receives sense impressions; buddhi, intellect, is for decisionmaking; chitta is for memory storage; and ahamkara is the sense of ego. It is seen as interacting with the Atman, the true Self or ultimate reality. The mind is whimsical, capricious, restless, inconsistent, erratic, volatile, sense slave, trickster, unruly, yet a source of creativity and boundless potential. It is often castigated as 'monkey mind', a restless ocean, a childish, insane and akaleidoscope, et al. Senses, in experiencing the outer world, communicate with manifest objects; a wobbling, capricious mind gets carried away by senses, as it cannot directly communicate with manifest objects, so the senses provide resource input. In meditation, as we close our eyes, we cannot see the outer world. Complete communication with the outer world breaks down as we focus on the object of meditation. With this, the deluge of thoughts subsides as we concentrate on the object or breath. Sensual consciousness transcends into a new experience of aesthetic consciousness, and this is the stage where knower, knowing, and knowledge merge with superconsciousness. True meditation lies in knowing and enlightening the mind, and the stimulation comes through chanting of a mantra, for example, the Gayatri mantra 'Om bhur bhuvasvah tat saviturvarenyam bhargodevasya dihimahi dhiy hona pracodayat.' The mantra rejuvenates one's intellect and enlightens the mind. Sahir Ludhianvi's lyrics in Hindi song 'Tora mann darpan kehlaaye…,' depicts the heart as a mirror reflecting one's actions and karm, suggesting that good and bad deeds are seen and reflected in the heart. True liberation lies in understanding the mind's nature and freeing it from conditioning. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Disclaimer Views expressed above are the author's own.
Yahoo
30-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Cartesian Therapeutics Announces First Participant Enrolled in the Phase 3 AURORA Trial of Descartes-08 in Patients with Myasthenia Gravis
FREDERICK, Md., May 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cartesian Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: RNAC) ('Cartesian' or the 'Company'), a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering cell therapy for autoimmune diseases, today announced that the first participant has been enrolled in its Phase 3 AURORA trial of Descartes-08 in patients with myasthenia gravis (MG). Descartes-08, Cartesian's lead cell therapy candidate, is an autologous engineered chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy (CAR-T) product candidate targeting B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA). Descartes-08 is designed to be administered without preconditioning chemotherapy in an outpatient setting and does not use integrating vectors. 'With the first participant now successfully enrolled, commencement of our Phase 3 AURORA trial represents a significant milestone in our mission to deliver a differentiated, durable treatment option to patients with MG,' said Carsten Brunn, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Cartesian. 'With sustained benefits observed through 12 months in our Phase 2b trial, we believe Descartes-08 has the potential to transform the current MG treatment paradigm with just a single course of therapy.' 'Marked by chronic use of steroids and other immunosuppressants while often delivering only limited efficacy, the current standard of care for patients with MG is inadequate,' said James (Chip) F. Howard, Jr., M.D., Cartesian Clinical Advisor and Professor of Neurology, Medicine, and Allied Health at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. 'Supported by compelling results from the Phase 2b trial, I firmly believe that Descartes-08 has the potential to serve as a safe, flexible, and durable treatment option for patients with MG. I look forward to helping advance this important study.' The Phase 3 AURORA trial is designed to assess Descartes-08 versus placebo (1:1 randomization) administered as six once-weekly outpatient infusions without preconditioning chemotherapy in approximately 100 participants with acetylcholine receptor autoantibody positive (AChR Ab+) MG. The primary endpoint will assess the proportion of Descartes-08 participants with an improvement in MG Activities of Daily Living (MG-ADL) score of three points or more at Month 4 compared to placebo. In April 2025, the Company announced updated efficacy and safety data from the Phase 2b trial of Descartes-08 in participants with MG. After a single course of therapy, Descartes-08-treated participants were observed to sustain deep responses through long-term follow-up, with an average 4.8-point reduction in the MG-ADL score at Month 12. The deepest and most compelling sustained responses were observed in Descartes-08-treated participants who did not have prior exposure to biologic therapies, with an average 7.1-point reduction in MG-ADL and 57% of patients in this subgroup maintaining minimum symptom expression at Month 12. The safety profile of Descartes-08 was consistent with previously reported data and continues to support outpatient administration. About Cartesian Therapeutics Cartesian Therapeutics is a clinical-stage company pioneering cell therapy for the treatment of autoimmune diseases. The Company's lead asset, Descartes-08, is a CAR-T in Phase 3 clinical development for patients with generalized myasthenia gravis and Phase 2 development for systemic lupus erythematosus, with a Phase 2 basket trial planned in additional autoimmune indications. The Company's clinical-stage pipeline also includes Descartes-15, a next-generation, autologous anti-BCMA CAR-T currently being evaluated in a Phase 1 trial in patients with multiple myeloma. For more information, please visit or follow the Company on LinkedIn or X, formerly known as Twitter. 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Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Industrial Robotics Market is Set to Surpass Valuation of US$ 235.38 Billion By 2033
Industrial robots are rapidly transitioning from motion-centric devices to data-rich cyber-physical assets. The most meaningful catalyst behind the growth of industrial robotics market is the commoditization of high-resolution 3-D cameras and time-of-flight lidar modules, whose average selling prices fell 27% between 2021 and 2023. When combined with on-arm AI inference chips such as NVIDIA's Jetson Orin Nano or Intel's Movidius Myriad X, robots can now perform simultaneous localization, part identification, and collision avoidance with millisecond latency. IFR surveys indicate that 41% of factories deploying robots in 2024 rely on embedded AI vision for at least one production step, up from just 12% four years earlier. Simultaneously, articulated platforms are evolving into multi-purpose workhorses rather than single-task machines. End-users now expect fast tool-change couplers, built-in vision cabling, and native OPC UA connectors out of the box. Over 45% of new articulated shipments in 2024 ship with integrated force-torque sensors versus just 18% in 2020, according to Omdia. That sensory leap enables fine assembly, customized palletizing, and surface finishing—applications that were once ceded to SCARA or Cartesian models. Moreover, shrinking controller footprints mean an articulated cell occupies 30% less floor space than 2018 equivalents, freeing valuable square meters for ancillary machines. These continuous product-level improvements, layered on deep supply-chain maturity, keep articulated robots at the strategic core of the industrial robotics market. The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) reports that articulated robots captured approximately 64% of the 590 000 new industrial robots installed worldwide in 2023, extending a six-year streak as the preferred mechanical architecture. Their six-axis flexibility enables a wide reach envelope, high payload capacity (up to 800 kg in the latest automotive units), and repeatability below 0.02 mm, making them the default choice for complex, high-throughput tasks. Tier-one automakers in Japan, Germany, and the United States each surpassed 10 000 annual articulated-robot deployments, while China alone integrated nearly 180 000 such units—equal to the next three countries combined. This scale advantage creates a virtuous cycle of component volume discounts, further solidifying articulated systems' cost leadership. Chicago, May 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global Industrial robotics market was valued at US$ 26.99 billion in 2024 and is expected to reach US$ 235.28 billion by 2033, growing at a CAGR of 27.2% over the course of forecast period, 2025–2033. Industrial robotics surges on articulated dominance, AI-driven adaptability, and relentless APAC demand, transforming automotive stability and electronics agility while spawning new revenue in pharma, food, and recycling, energizing competitive giants and nimble innovators alike. Story Continues Edge connectivity further amplifies this capability stack. 5G SA private networks, increasingly rolled out in brownfield plants, give robots deterministic 1-ms round-trip times, enabling real-time cloud model updates without sacrificing safety. Meanwhile, next-generation servo drives embed functional-safety over Ethernet (FSoE), allowing dynamic speed limiting and safe human-robot collaboration within open cells. Collectively, these technological building blocks broaden the industrial robotics market from repetitive motion automation to adaptive manufacturing platforms. Integrators can thus offer 'capability as a service,' whereby firmware updates unlock new skills post-installation, preserving CapEx while boosting return on invested capital. As enterprises prioritize resiliency and mass customization, the convergence of sensors, AI, and edge control will remain the foremost innovation lever through 2028. Automotive Body Shops Remain Largest Application For Industrial Robotics Deployment Despite headline-grabbing deployments in electronics and logistics, welding and sealing inside automotive body-in-white (BIW) shops continue to anchor global industrial robotics market growth. Automakers accounted for roughly 25.40% of total industrial robot installations in 2024, IFR data show, with over 70% of those units slotted into BIW framing, spot-welding, and paint lines. High-duty-cycle articulated or gantry robots achieve utilization rates above 92%, justifying investment even under cyclical vehicle demand. Notably, battery-electric-vehicle (BEV) production intensifies automation needs; aluminum and gigacasting components require longer, more precise welding seams, which robots consistently deliver at ±0.1 mm path accuracy. Automakers are also raising the bar on digital traceability. Each weld now carries a unique identifier logged through real-time IO-Link and Manufacturing Execution System (MES) handshakes, helping OEMs in the industrial robotics market meet stringent crash-test and regulatory documentation. With average trim-and-final lines now integrating 600+ robots—up 17% from 2019—ecosystem complexity explodes. Consequently, major integrators such as Comau, Dürr, and ATS deploy digital twins during design, saving up to eight weeks of commissioning time while trimming rework by 15%. As BEV investment cycles extend into North America, Europe, and Asia, BIW lines will preserve their status as the industrial robotics market's single largest application cluster, creating stable demand streams for high-payload arms, vision-guided sealing heads, and Industry 4.0 management software. Electronics Manufacturing Emerges As Most Prominent End-Use Growth Frontier Today in Industrial Robotics Market Whereas automotive provides volume stability, electronics manufacturing fuels the market's fastest unit expansion. Global smartphone and server facilities added an all-time-high 125,000 robots in 2024, a 24% year-on-year jump, according to Counterpoint Technology Market Research. Miniaturization trends—think 0201 surface-mount components and 0.35-mm-pitch connectors—necessitate placement repeatability below 10 µm, pushing adoption of compact SCARA, Delta, and collaborative robot (cobot) models. In Foxconn's flagship Zhengzhou plant, cobots now perform delicate camera module insertions side-by-side with technicians, trimming defect rates from 2.1% to 0.6%. Equally significant is the rising demand for advanced-packaging back-end processes such as wafer bumping, testing, and micro-LED transfer. Here, robots equipped with vacuum-based micro-grippers and dual-arm architectures cut cycle times by 30% over conventional pick-and-place machinery in the industrial robotics market. Coupled with intense reshoring incentives in the United States (CHIPS Act) and Europe (IPCEI projects), electronics manufacturers are accelerating lights-out factory roadmaps to hedge geopolitical risk. The resulting multiplier effect extends beyond hardware; software vendors providing inline defect AI analytics and ECAD-to-robot path converters enjoy rising attach rates. Taken together, these dynamics underscore why electronics manufacturing has become the most prominent end-use frontier, reshaping payload, precision, and clean-room specifications across the broader industrial robotics landscape. Competitive Landscape Led By Fanuc, ABB, Yaskawa, KUKA, Mitsubishi Electric Market concentration remains relatively high in the industrial robotics market: the top five suppliers collectively shipped over 55% of global units in 2024, based on IFR shipment audits. Fanuc leads with a differentiated dual offering—a proven R-30iB Plus controller line for high-speed articulation and a versatile CRX cobot series for greenfield SMEs. ABB follows closely, leveraging its OmniCore controller and RobotStudio digital-twin software, which cuts average programming hours by 25%. Yaskawa, meanwhile, capitalizes on its Sigma-7 servo Technology to deliver class-leading energy savings, reducing power draw up to 30% during idle states. European industrial robotics market leader KUKA intensified its focus on pre-configured cells such as the KUKA Cell4 family, compressing delivery times to eight weeks. Mitsubishi Electric differentiates through deep integration with its iQ-platform PLCs and servo drives, creating a seamless motion ecosystem favored by Japanese Tier-2 automotive suppliers. Competitive intensity is rising from emerging Chinese vendors—Inovance, Estun, and Efort—whose price-performance ratios resonate with cost-sensitive buyers. To defend share, incumbents double-down on software ecosystems, preventive maintenance algorithms, and global service networks. Partnerships with cloud hyperscalers (e.g., ABB-Microsoft Azure) broaden analytics revenue while open-architecture moves, such as KUKA's aim to lock in developers. This dynamic yet concentrated landscape ensures that innovation cycles accelerate, pricing remains disciplined, and end-users benefit from a robust selection of mature, future-proof solutions. Emerging Opportunities In Service Integration, Retrofits, And Collaborative Workcells Worldwide As hardware margins compress, service integration has become a key profit lever in the industrial robotics market. Astute Analytica estimates that lifecycle services—spanning remote monitoring, digital twin optimization, and AI-based predictive maintenance—can generate 30% of total project value by year three. Vendors now bundle warranty extensions with condition-based service contracts priced on uptime rather than parts, aligning supplier incentives with plant KPIs. Simultaneously, retrofit kits breathe new life into installed bases: smart end-effectors, vision upgrades, and open controller retrofits allow customers to repurpose decade-old arms for modern tasks at one-third the cost of new equipment. Collaborative workcells represent another high-growth pocket for industrial robotics market, with cobot unit shipments climbing 18% CAGR between 2022 and 2024, per Interact Analysis. ISO / TS 15066 safety guidelines and category-3 PLe redundancy enable mixed-mode operation, allowing operators to enter cells without lengthy lockout procedures. Such flexibility reduces takt time variance and unlocks high-mix, low-volume production economics. Forward-looking integrators offer 'cobot-in-a-box' solutions that include vision, grippers, and pre-validated safety configurations, cutting deployment from months to days. Together, integrated services, retrofit pathways, and collaborative platforms create enticing opportunities for robot OEMs, system integrators, and value-added resellers to diversify revenue while helping manufacturers extract maximum ROI from automation assets. View the Table of Contents to select and purchase individual chapters: Asia-Pacific Offers Lucrative Revenue Streams With Policy-Backed Automation Surge Today Asia-Pacific (APAC) industrial robotics market commands nearly 71% of global robot installations, with China contributing two-thirds of that volume. Beijing's 'New Productive Forces' blueprint enables accelerated tax deductions for automation, effectively shortening payback periods to below two years for mid-sized factories. Simultaneously, Japan's Robot Revolution Initiative and Korea's K-Robot Strategy earmark billions in low-interest loans, spurring small-to-medium enterprises to automate. India, chasing its 'Make in India 2.0' goals, recorded a 54% spike in robot imports in 2024, predominantly in automotive, electronics, and pharmaceutical segments. Beyond policy, APAC also benefits from dense supplier networks and rapid equipment-maker iteration cycles, which shorten lead times in the industrial robotics market. For example, Shenzhen-based component suppliers can turn around custom harmonic reducers in four weeks, enabling quicker prototype phases than Western counterparts. Meanwhile, ASEAN countries like Vietnam and Thailand offer favorable labor-cost arbitrage, prompting multinational electronics firms to establish parallel manufacturing lines equipped with lightweight SCARAs and cobots. These intertwined factors—policy incentives, local supply chains, and shifting global value networks—position APAC as the most lucrative geography for revenue generation within the industrial robotics market through 2030, particularly for vendors adept at aligning with local standards and service expectations. New Revenue Pockets Emerge In Pharma, Food, And Circular Economy Pharmaceutical manufacturing is rapidly embracing robotics to meet stringent Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and aseptic regulations. Research by ISPE shows 38% of sterile drug-fill lines installed since 2022 employ robotic isolators, eliminating manual interventions that can introduce contaminants. Robots with ISO Class-5 clean-room ratings handle vial loading, capping, and lyophilization tray transfers, boosting batch yield consistency by 12%. Food and beverage in the industrial robotics market likewise accelerate adoption; wash-down-rated Delta robots equipped with hygienic stainless-steel frames now debone 140 chicken fillets per minute, outperforming human crews while ensuring traceable handling data for retailers. An emerging frontier lies in the circular economy, where robots disassemble smartphones, EV batteries, and e-waste to recover critical minerals. Apple's 'Daisy' system exemplifies this trend in the industrial robotics market, dismantling 1.2 million iPhones annually while capturing 80% of rare earth content. Start-ups like Li-Cycle deploy robotic gripper-cutting hybrids to strip battery packs before hydrometallurgical processing, achieving 95% material recovery rates. Government grants in the EU's Horizon Europe program explicitly fund robotic circularity projects, signaling long-term growth potential. Collectively, pharma sterility demands, hygienic food lines, and sustainability-driven disassembly create fresh, high-margin revenue pockets that reward solution providers capable of combining materials science expertise with robotics engineering, ultimately broadening the industrial robotics market's addressable scope and societal impact. Global Industrial Robotics Market Key Players: ABB Limited DAIHEN Corporation Denso Corporation Epson America Incorporated Fanuc Corporation Kawasaki Heavy Industries Limited Kobe Steel, Limited Kuka AG Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Yaskawa Electric Corporation Other Prominent Players Key Segmentation: By Type Articulated Cartesian SCARA Cylindrical Others By Industry Automotive Electrical & Electronics Chemical Rubber & Plastics Machinery Food & Beverages Others By Function Soldering & Welding Materials Handling Assembling & Disassembling Painting & Dispensing Milling, Cutting, & Processing Others By Region North America Europe Asia Pacific Middle East & Africa (MEA) South America Have Questions? Reach Out Before Buying: About Astute Analytica Astute Analytica is a global market research and advisory firm providing data-driven insights across industries such as technology, healthcare, chemicals, semiconductors, FMCG, and more. 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