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Guidance Automation has partnered with Yantra to upgrade their vehicle navigation options to include ‘natural feature’ navigation. Mapping algorithms enable the robots to navigate by reference to existing features within the working environment. No navigation marks are needed.

Elbit Systems has demonstrated to the RAS Concept Development & Experimentation Program of the Royal Netherlands Army the Company’s Robotic Autonomous Systems (RAS) capabilities for Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions utilizing heterogeneous autonomous swarms.

From Salomon ski equipment to Wilson tennis rackets via Suunto watches, Amer Sports has a dozen or so brands in the sports business. As head of Amer Sports’ Finance Shared Services Centre in Krakow, Poland, Hervé Hachet caters to the operational needs of the group’s teams in Europe, North America and Australia.

Strong robot sales in the third quarter of 2021 bring the total number of orders so far this year to nearly 29,000 units valued at $1.48 billion, the best numbers ever recorded for the North American robotics market. According to the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), these numbers show increases of 37% in units sold (up from 21,072) and 35% in value (up from $1.09 billion) over the same period in 2020 and surpass the previous highest record from 2017 by 5.8% and 0.5%.

European robotics and autonomous systems provider Milrem Robotics opened its office in the Netherlands, making the first step towards creating a Central European Robotics Center. Simultaneously the company introduced its upgraded THeMIS unmanned ground vehicle (UGV).

We are clearly all living in a time of great change, perhaps mitigated by an uncertain future, which requires us to have a vision. Alea iacta est [the die is cast]: we have no choice but to ride this wave that has been generated,  with due awareness, knowing how to weigh up the risks and opportunities, trying to capitalise on the momentum without being overwhelmed.

According to new global research from Digital Intelligence company ABBYY, 6-in-10 (61%) employees say their job is made more difficult through trouble accessing data in documents and nearly a quarter (24%) lose a full day of productivity per week searching documents for information they need to serve customers.

Organisations must embrace business composability to thrive through disruption in 2022 and beyond, according to Gartner’s annual global survey of CIOs and technology executives. EMEA CIO respondents projected a 3.7% IT budget increase for 2022, on average, which is slightly higher than the average global IT budget growth (3.6%)

The market for professional service robots reached a turnover of 6.7 billion U.S. dollars worldwide – up 12% in 2020. At the same time, turnover of new consumer service robots grew 16% to 4.4 billion U.S. dollars. This is according to World Robotics 2021 – Service Robots report, presented by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).

UiPath announced the latest features in the 2021.10 Platform Release. The new release offers, among other things, cloud native architecture through the new UiPath Automation Suite, whether customers choose to take delivery of the UiPath Platform via on-premises, public cloud, or third-party hosted services.