Industry Findings: The Asia Pacific region’s rapid urbanisation and sustained investment in mega-infrastructure projects are accelerating the need for scalable service robotics across transport, healthcare, and retail ecosystems. Countries rolling out smart-city corridors are piloting autonomous delivery, navigation, and public-service units at unprecedented speed, reshaping regional buyer expectations. This shifts commercial advantage toward vendors that can handle extreme density, multilingual interface demands, large-fleet coordination, and region-specific regulations that vary widely across APAC markets.
Industry Progression: APAC’s expanding smart-city and mega-infrastructure programmes continue to accelerate robotics readiness across airports, malls, hospitals, and transport hubs. A strong indicator surfaced when Changi Airport in Singapore expanded autonomous cleaning and security-robot deployments throughout 2023–2024, demonstrating operational maturity in high-footfall environments. This catalyses adoption across APAC airports and commercial complexes, strengthening demand for multi-sensor fusion, multilingual interfaces, and large-fleet orchestration.
Industry Players: The region’s industry momentum is led by DJI, Mobile Industrial Robots, OTSAW, GreyOrange, Macnica Robotics, Pudu Robotics, and Keenon Robotics etc. Asia Pacific continues to favour high-density, high-traffic automation, pushing vendors to design more robust perception stacks and large-fleet orchestration tools. When GreyOrange announced new AI-driven fulfilment automation deployments across India, Singapore, and Australia in 2024, it reinforced the region’s shift toward software-led robotics. This drives stronger buyer expectations around latency-free fleet coordination and rapid cross-country deployment capability.