There is a tremendous technology push as well as business pull towards autonomous systems, somehow recasting the automation industry as we know it. While the usage of data-driven approaches in consumer products affecting our lives in all its aspects seems to be a non-reversible movement covering the big portion of the life on the globe, there still remain some technical, commercial, societal and ethical challenges to be solved in industrial application. In this talk we will share our (ABBs) experiences and learnings from this extremely exciting transformation..