---
id: "lib-2026-10-00-digital-future-ai-as-a-driver-of-robotics-in"
type: "library"
title: "Digital future: AI as a driver of robotics in Russia"
title_original: "Цифровое будущее: ИИ как драйвер развития робототехники в России"
lang: "RU"
org: "Yakov & Partners; KUKA Russia"
source_type: "Report"
date: "2026-10-01"
week: "2026-W40"
url: "https://nosov.ai/library/lib-2026-10-00-digital-future-ai-as-a-driver-of-robotics-in/"
original_url: "https://yakovpartners.ru/publications/roboty-novogo-pokoleniya/"
tags: ["business transformation", "ai technology"]
---

# Digital future: AI as a driver of robotics in Russia

Original title: Цифровое будущее: ИИ как драйвер развития робототехники в России

## English summary

103 pp; own survey of about 200 companies in 15 industries: 28% testing AI-enabled industrial robotics, about 5% moved from pilot to full deployment; 72% started integrating non-AI industrial robots, 46% use them; 43.8% started service robots. Yakov & Partners is the former McKinsey Russia practice.

Original: https://yakovpartners.ru/publications/roboty-novogo-pokoleniya/