Industry Findings: The momentum increasingly reflects a national push to combine sovereign digital infrastructure with pragmatic automation adoption across logistics, healthcare, and energy services. Our assessment shows buyers now prioritise robots that tolerate harsh environments, simplify maintenance, and inject measurable uptime improvements into mission-critical operations. A clear structural inflection occurred when the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology published the National AI Policy in Apr-2025, establishing governance, testbed, and commercialisation pathways for embodied AI and robotics. That public-policy commitment reduces regulatory ambiguity, unlocks co-funded pilot opportunities, and signals capital availability for projects that pair robust hardware with edge-enabled inference. The practical impact will be shorter procurement cycles for integrated robot-plus-cloud solutions and a premium on vendors able to guarantee on-site support and parts availability for distributed Oman operations.
Industry Player Insights: Oman’s supplier landscape is maturing with domestic system integrators and regional robotics vendors such as Accesa IT Group, Adapta Robotics, Heap.services, and Rihal.om taking on larger installations. Accesa IT Group expanded its automation services in 2024 by bundling edge-compute orchestration with integrator-level support, shortening deployment timelines for logistics and light-manufacturing customers. Adapta Robotics piloted ruggedised AMR variants for port and on-site material movement in late-2024, showing improved duty cycles under hot, dusty conditions. These vendor moves accelerate market confidence by supplying localised service contracts and field-proven reference installations, prompting Omani buyers to prioritise suppliers that pair hardware ruggedness with sustained onshore support and training programmes.