India, July 10 -- COVID-19 has made the human race acutely aware of our vulnerability to infectious diseases. We now know we must rely on robots and other automation technologies to handle many formerly manual tasks while we shelter in place.

Clearly, the post-pandemic outlook for robotics could not be rosier. Once we've handed off many functions to robots, such as routine office cleaning and expedited parcel delivery, the likelihood that those functions will be returned to human hands in the future will be slim to none.

However, robots won't completely take over the economy, and we expect some segments of the robotics market to perform better than others in the pandemic's aftermath. Predicting where the hottest post-pandemic opportunit...