Robotics, increasingly employed across all industrial sectors, enables small and medium-sized enterprises and industries to improve their performance via a flexible, connected production system. In April 2019, a report on French robotics by French MP Bruno Bonnell and robotics expert Catherine Simon drew an encouraging picture of the change taking place in industry. Without sweeping France's shortcomings under the rug, the two authors focused on the country's many assets in the drive to, as the report's title puts it, "make France into an international champion in robotics and intelligent systems". "Over 50% of routine business tasks will be performed by machines by 2025" "Although industrial robots are being introduced more slowly in France than in other countries for the time being, the move is growing at a rate ranging between 6 and 13% per year through 2021," says Thomas Hoffmann, Business Development Director for the Actemium brand, the VINCI Energies network of automated industrial solutions integrators. As part of the move to digitalise businesses, robotics is a promising market, and an increasing number of small and medium-sized businesses and microenterprises will be seeking to automate their processes.