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In the latest editon of the UiPath Reboot Work Festival this week, company founder Dines shared a key lesson on how to advance as a company or individual: capitalize on what’s gone before–and let code help as much as you can.

RSIP Vision has announced a new tool for prostate MRI analysis. The tool performs segmentation of the prostate, its sub-sections, and lesions. It analyzes the lesions’ intensity, restriction, size, and shape, and provides a baseline for Prostate Imaging–Reporting and Data System (PI-RADS) score.

The role of finance changes from compliance to driving environmental and socially responsible value. And the CFO is at the heart of these changes. One of the instruments to accommodate this change, is robotic process automation (RPA). Steve Faulkner, leading the CFO practice with UiPath, a global RPA technology leader. Rocking Robots discussed with him the challenges CFOs are currently facing.

Teledyne FLIR Defense, part of Teledyne Technologies, has teamed with MFE Inspection Solutions to integrate the FLIR MUVE C360 multi-gas detector on Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot and commercial unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The integrated solutions will enable remote monitoring of chemical threats in industrial and public safety applications.

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $4.4 trillion in 2022, an increase of 4% from 2021, according to the latest forecast by Gartner.  The rise of enterprise application software, infrastructure software and managed services demonstrates that the trend toward digital transformation is systemic and long-term.

Konoike Transport Co and OSARO worked on a new project at the Konoike Institute of Technology Innovation Center (known as KITIC). It will showcase Japan’s first prototype of automated warehouse operations where autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) will work together with picking robots optimized for warehouse and e-commerce applications that involve large SKU inventories.

This week the Council of Europe’s Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) will started its work on the AI Treaty. ALLAI co-founder Virginia Dignum was one of the speakers at the Inaugural Meeting of the CAI (High-Level Segment).

UNSW Engineering Professor Flora Salim has been honoured for her pioneering work in computing and machine learning by Women in AI, a global advocacy group for women in the artificial intelligence (AI) field.

Universal Robots’ UR5e cobot will power the RightPick 3 robot system, that offers system integrators and warehouse operators an item-handling solution for use with AutoStore, ASRS systems, and other standard material handling automation. Both the hardware platform and the RightPick AI software stack have been re-architected for performance exceeding 1,200 units per hour in controlled tests, process reliability better than 99.5%, safety and compliance.

Halodi Robotics has signed an agreement to provide 140 humanoid robots to ADT Commercial, a  U.S.-based provider of commercial security, fire, life safety and risk consulting services. This announcement is the result of the strategic partnership announced in April 2021 where Halodi Robotics secured an investment from ADT Commercial to develop a robot to complement their physical security solutions.