Robotics & Automation · Projected milestone
Robot-run industry
Estimated year~2050
25% by 2055 · including earlier years
The year is an editorial timing estimate. The percentage applies to occurrence by the stated deadline. These estimates are not calibrated odds.
Most physical work in factories, farms and mines is done by robots.
Explore this milestone on the interactive mapWhat the forecast means
Milestone stage: milestone (legacy definition)
Completion criteria: Legacy milestone: refine the observable threshold before resolving.
This page describes a forecast, rather than an achieved result. Read the methodology and assumptions.
Built on
Led to
- Chip fab in a shipping containerForecast · ~2052enables
- Work becomes optionalForecast · ~2054enables
- Largely automated economyForecast · ~2055enables
- Keynes's 15-hour weekForecast · ~2056enables
- Robots made by robots from oreForecast · ~2061enables
- Robot crews build megastructuresForecast · ~2065enables
- Cities that run themselvesForecast · ~2068enables
- A craft renaissanceForecast · ~2072enables
- Robot swarms that build aloneForecast · ~2072enables
- Robots that tend wild natureForecast · ~2072enables
- Status from community, not jobsForecast · ~2072enables
- Self-replicating factoriesForecast · ~2073enables
- Game characters step into the worldForecast · ~2075enables
- Homes that move themselvesForecast · ~2082enables
- Robots first into every disasterForecast · ~2092enables
Sources & evidence
No individual source links are recorded for this milestone. Source coverage and review status vary across the atlas.
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.