Robotics in Consumer Goods, Packaging and Foodservice - Thematic Intelligence
Summary
This report investigates how robotics are improving the business operations of consumer goods, packaging, and foodservice companies.
There are well established use cases for robotics within the consumer goods and packaging industries. Both sectors have used caged industrial robots, industrial cobots, and logistics robots to automate production lines and logistics operations for some time now. Robotics do not fit as easily into the foodservice business model. Currently, simple food preparation tasks (such as burger flipping and wing frying) and meal delivery are the areas being explored by tech vendors.
Scope
- Current robotics can add greater value to the consumer goods and packaging industries than they can to the foodservice industry. Developments in AI and cloud computing will enable robots to perform more complicated tasks (or the same tasks with greater precision).
- Understand which types of robots can add value to which areas of the consumer goods, packaging, and foodservice value chains. Identify the key tech vendors and the leading adopters of robotics within these sectors.
- Executive Summary
- Players
- The Impact of Robotics on Consumer Goods, Foodservice, and Packaging
- Industry challenges
- Impact assessment
- How robotics helps resolve the challenge of high inflation
- How robotics helps resolve the challenge of digitalization
- How robotics helps resolve the challenge of ESG
- How robotics helps resolve the challenge of generational shifts
- How robotics helps resolve the challenge of the future of physical stores
- Case Studies
- Automated warehouses growing in strength and numbers
- Aramark automates its kitchen with robotics
- Brinker bins drones and robots in favor of ‘the kitchen of the future’
- Diageo optimizes agave plantation management using drones
- Industry Analysis
- Market size and growth forecasts
- Industrial robots will grow at a CAGR of 10% between 2022 and 2030
- Service robots will be the growth engine of robotics
- An increasingly varied landscape
- Timeline
- Signals
- M&A trends
- Patent trends
- Company filings trends
- Hiring trends
- Social media trends
- Value Chain
- Robot manufacturing
- Caged industrial robots
- Industrial co-bots
- Logistics robots (excluding drones)
- Medical robots
- Exoskeletons
- Consumer robots
- Drones
- Inspection, cleaning, and maintenance robots
- Field robots
- Defense and security robots (excluding drones)
- Hardware components
- Precision mechanical parts
- Semiconductors
- Software components
- Robotic intelligence
- Robotics as a service
- Cloud robotics
- Companies
- Leading robotics adopters in consumer goods
- Leading robotics adopters in packaging
- Leading robotics adopters in foodservice
- Leading robotics vendors
- Specialist robotics vendors in consumer goods, packaging, and foodservice
- Sector Scorecards
- Consumer goods sector scorecard
- Who’s who
- Thematic screen
- Valuation screen
- Risk screen
- Packaging sector scorecard
- Who’s who
- Thematic screen
- Valuation screen
- Risk screen
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- GlobalData reports
- Our Thematic Research Methodology
- About GlobalData
- Contact Us
- List of Tables
- Table 1: Key challenges facing the consumer goods, packaging, and foodservice sectors
- Table 2: Key M&A transactions associated with the robotics theme since January 2021
- Table 3: Leading robotics adopters in consumer goods
- Table 4: Leading robotics adopters in packaging
- Table 5: Leading robotics adopters in foodservice
- Table 6: Leading robotics vendors
- Table 7: Specialist robotics vendors in consumer goods, packaging, and foodservice
- Table 8: Glossary
- Table 9: GlobalData reports
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: Who are the leading players in the robotics theme, and where do they sit in the value chain?
- Figure 2: Hot topics in packaging company filings’ mentions of robotics
- Figure 3: Thematic impact assessment – robotics in consumer goods
- Figure 4: Thematic impact assessment – robotics in packaging
- Figure 5: Thematic impact assessment – robotics in foodservice
- Figure 6: Coca Cola’s improved distribution center in Mentone
- Figure 7: The robotics industry will grow at a CAGR of 17% between 2022 and 2030
- Figure 8: The industrial robotics market will be worth $45.1 billion by 2030
- Figure 9: The service robots market will be worth $172.4 billion in 2030
- Figure 10: Exoskeletons are the fastest-growing robotics category
- Figure 11: The robotics story
- Figure 12: The annual number of M&A deals in robotics peaked at 196 in 2021, falling to 184 in 2022
- Figure 13: Robotics-related patents assigned to consumer goods companies increased annually until 2021
- Figure 14: Consumer goods companies have mentioned robotics in their filings less and less since 2021
- Figure 15: Keywords in company filings shed light on how a theme is impacting a sector
- Figure 16: Robotics-related hiring in consumer goods in 2023 is on-schedule to exceed that of 2022
- Figure 17: Top occupations focus on the installation, operation, and maintenance of robots
- Figure 18: Since 2019, the interest social media has taken in robotics in consumer goods has grown significantly
- Figure 19: The robotics value chain
- Figure 20: Caged industrial robots
- Figure 21: Industrial co-bots
- Figure 22: Delivery robots & Warehouse robots
- Figure 23: Logistics robots
- Figure 24: Medical robots
- Figure 25: An example of a surgical robot
- Figure 26: An example of a care robot
- Figure 27: Medical exoskeleton & Walking assist devices
- Figure 28: Exoskeletons
- Figure 29: Consumer robots
- Figure 30: Drones
- Figure 31: Consumer drone & Military drone
- Figure 32: Inspection robot
- Figure 33: Inspection, cleaning, and maintenance robots
- Figure 34: An agribot: a field robot used in agriculture & Field robots in space exploration
- Figure 35: Field robots
- Figure 36: Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) robot & Unmanned surface vessel (USV)
- Figure 37: Defense and security robots (excluding drones)
- Figure 38: Precision mechanical parts
- Figure 39: Semiconductors
- Figure 40: Robotic intelligence
- Figure 41: Cloud robotics
- Figure 42: Who does what in the consumer goods space?
- Figure 43: Thematic screen - Consumer goods sector scorecard
- Figure 44: Valuation screen - Consumer goods sector scorecard
- Figure 45: Risk screen - Consumer goods sector scorecard
- Figure 46: Who does what in the packaging space?
- Figure 47: Thematic screen - Packaging sector scorecard
- Figure 48: Valuation screen - Packaging sector scorecard
- Figure 49: Risk screen - Packaging sector scorecard
- Figure 50: Our five-step approach for generating a sector scorecard
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