Autonomy Initiative

Autonomy is an unprecedented and transformational opportunity

Pittsburgh is a region of makers and innovators. Our region has shown time and time again that we can come together and remake ourselves through innovation, determination and sheer grit. Today the Pittsburgh region is faced with a new transformational opportunity, the opportunity presented by the autonomous mobile systems sector, or autonomy.  As has long been predicted, Pittsburgh’s autonomy sector has reached a critical mass; it has grown organically from an emerging to an established cluster with the opportunity to dominate the global market in autonomous mobile systems.

The regional opportunity presented by autonomy:

An estimated 5,000 jobs and a $10 billion impact for a region that captures one percent of the global market in the next five years 

A strategy to grow a diversity of family-sustaining jobs for our region, both degree-requiring and not

A path to rebuilding the regional economy by spreading autonomy testing, deployment and manufacturing opportunities 

Total Direct

6,300

Total Economic Output

$2.9 Billion

companies

71+

7th

Nationally in Autonomous Business Establishment Volume

2nd

Nationally in Concentration of Autonomy Market Leaders
labor income impact

$651M

direct local, state and federal tax revenues

$161M

total jobs in the region

14,923

$490 Million

invested in the sector

Autonomy in the News
Autonomy Report
Pittsburgh's Autonomy Economy

Autonomy Partners

Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh Robotics Network