Forbes November 6, 2025
By Peter Bendor-Samuel, Founder and Executive Chairman, and Richard Sear, Managing Partner, Advanced SciTech
In this blog, Everest Group’s Peter Bendor-Samuel and Richard Sear combine their perspectives from years of advising enterprises and analyzing emerging technologies. Together, they explore how artificial intelligence is transforming industrial automation, not as a distant vision, but as a tangible shift already underway.
Throughout the history of industry, every great leap forward has been driven by a fundamental rethinking of how work gets done. In the 19th century, steam power freed factories from reliance on rivers. In the 20th century, electricity and assembly lines transformed productivity. In the late 20th century, digital computing layered intelligence onto machines.
We now stand at the beginning of another...
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