2017 IoT Transformed

Intelligent Things

What Gartner Predicted

Physical things like robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles would use AI to deliver advanced behaviors and interact naturally with people and surroundings.

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Prediction Accuracy
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Predicted robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles using AI to interact naturally with people. Smart speakers were the only real success, and they plateaued. Autonomous vehicles and consumer robots remain limited. The 'intelligent things' that actually took off were software-based (LLM agents), not physical things.