The Robot and Automation Almanac is a collection of essays from leading robotics, robot, AI, and automation experts, executives, and investors. Each of the essays focuses on the "one big thing" the authors expect in the year an opportunity, a risk, a challenge, investment themes, an overlooked trend, a perception shift, a step change, or a trend change. Contributors included Michael Walton, Brandon Coats, Carl Vause, Dr Djamila Amimer, Erik Nieves, Ragu Athinarayanan, Grant Richards, Balamurugan Balakreshnan, Matthew Wicks, PE, Jason Gouw, Pat Davison, Peter Bladh, Thomas C. O'Donnell, Jeff Burnstein, Robert Huschka, Mike Field, Kaleb Steinhauer, Fred van Beuningen, Rob Handfield, Maxim Khabur, Russell Nickerson, Maciej Lisiecki, Łukasz Lipski, Daniel Stanton, Nawfal Patel.