What will 2022 hold for automation, robots, and artificial intelligence? The Robot and Automation Almanac is a collection of essays from leading robot and automation experts, executives, and investors. Each of the essays focuses on the "one big thing" that each author sees in the year ahead: an opportunity, a risk, a challenge, investment themes, an overlooked trend, a perception shift, a step change, or a trend change.Aside from Jason Schenker, contributors to the 2021 almanac include Michael Walton, Bruce Welty, Shannon McGurk, Djamila Amimer, Jason Gouw, Bruce Bleikamp, Steven LaFevers, Louie Kangeter, Anton Larsson, Thomas Evans, Kaleb Steinhauer, Nawfal Patel, Shane Istre, Robert Handfield, Kevin Paramore, Martin Buehler, Lorenzo Carver, Jim Rice, Daniel Stanton, Patrick Davison, Crystal Parrott, and Mark Manning.The Robot and Automation Almanac is produced by The Futurist Institute - www.FuturistInstitute.org.