Just as we need regular health exams to maintain wellness and stay free from disease, exams for industrial and infrastructure assets ensure their health and safe operations. Regular doctor’s visits and checkups can detect health problems before they begin or become severe, and the sooner and earlier a problem is detected, the better the chances for a cure or treatment. Similarly, industrial and infrastructure inspection in general, and corrosion monitoring specifically, protects and ensures the safety and integrity of bridges, dams, ships, oil and gas refineries, manufacturing plants, electrical transmission towers, wind turbines, and more. The use of robotic inspection systems for industrial assets in the field can assist NDE 4.0 with the task of saving lives by moving workers from harm’s way and gathering information to help prevent catastrophic accidents. NDE 4.0 enables the extrapolation of knowledge concerning an asset’s operational and functional viability, future operational requirements and needs, and estimated life cycle performance and efficacy. From remote underwater data collection and inspections of structures used for offshore oil exploration and drilling to ground-based robots crawling up the walls of aboveground storage tanks and boilers to drones making physical contact with ship’s hulls and flare stacks, there is no shortage of either different types of assets or modalities of robotic inspection systems in service, all of which can benefit from the knowledge NDE 4.0 helps create. NDE 4.0 is a force multiplier for inspecting, testing, and evaluating industrial assets for their safety, operational efficacy, and usefulness. NDE 4.0 generates knowledge, insights, and understandings that turn data gathered from industrial inspection robots into actionable information to enhance and extend knowledge-based, information-driven decision-making. As inspection robots are “data gathering machines,” they can gather more data and “see” more than inspections completed by people. This is precisely where NDE 4.0 brings value. While in situ inspections of industrial assets in the field are necessary and critical, they can be dangerous and expensive. Inspection utilizing robotics and automation helps organizations improve safety and reduce costs. The value creation NDE 4.0 enables it so compelling, and for it to be as effective as possible requires so much data that it is a foregone conclusion that the data gathering industrial inspection robotics market will grow exponentially to feed data to NDE 4.0.