Industry Findings: The UAE has positioned advanced robotics within national innovation and industrialisation roadmaps, redirecting procurement toward certified, scalable automation that supports energy, logistics, and smart-city ambitions. Our assessment shows buyers now prioritise interoperable systems with strong localisation and lifecycle support rather than point solutions. A decisive non-vendor milestone came when the UAE published its National Strategy for Advanced Innovation in Jul-2025, signalling coordinated public investment in testbeds, sovereign data infrastructure, and edge compute for applied robotics. That policy signal reduces perceived deployment risk for large-scale projects, accelerates capital allocation into robotics pilots with clear pathway-to-scale, and compels adopters to select platforms that demonstrate repeatable outcomes across hot, dusty, and energy-sector environments.
Industry Player Insights: UAE’s industry path is being shaped by G42, ADNOC, Gecko Robotics, and Bayanat etc. Vendor activity in 2024–2025 emphasised edge compute, industrial inspections, and local skills programmes. G42 launched its Analog edge-computing venture in Jan-2024, strengthening national capabilities for low-latency robotic workloads and on-site model inference. ADNOC expanded robotics and AI deployments through a strategic agreement with Gecko Robotics announced in Nov-2025 to pilot automated inspection and predictive-maintenance workflows across energy assets. Together these moves nudge UAE buyers to favour suppliers that can deliver integrated edge-cloud robotics stacks, certified safety cases, and regional training pathways that shorten operational onboarding.