“…By studying and analysing the annual reports on the use of industrial robots [6], as well as all sources of scientific, credible, and recent information on industrial robots and artificial intelligence (AI) [1,2,3,4,7,8,9,10,12], the authors of this paper were able to prepare a well-documented work on the most important and relevant issues related to the recent developments and the evolution trend of the involvement of robots and artificial intelligence in the world of the future − a world full of ambitions and fulminant advances in terms of the engineering conception of products and services directed mainly at industry 4.0., but also embedded in new technologies deemed as ´revolutionary´ such as: IoT, Big Data, Cloud computing, Blockchain, Digital Twin, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Process Management/ Automation Systems, Cybersecurity, thus contributing to the acceleration of the adoption by the international market of these state-of-the-art intelligent solutions.…”