Industrial and factory automation is revolutionizing the manufacturing landscape leading to smart industry and flexibility in production. Factory automation is mostly driven by cloud technology, leading to the introduction of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) that has made robotic automation more viable for manufacturers, leading to an increased speed of production and accuracy. Robotic automation will provide superior abilities that will offer the advantage of communicating with one another and with cloud computing systems for long-term optimization based on big data analysis.