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Artificial Intelligence Technology Solutions, provider of AI-driven security and analytics solutions for enterprise clients, announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Robotic Assistance Devices (RAD) has shipped its one-hundredth ROSA device.

Robot combat competition BattleBots presented the official BattleBots casino slot games. Developed by Konami Gaming at Caesars Entertainment Studios during the new season taping of the 2021 World Championship. This game includes some of BattleBots’ most well known robot competitors like Tombstone, Witch Doctor, HyperShock, and more. BattleBots slots take players on a combat to cash as robots strike, swing, shove, slice, and smash with each spin.

Researchers from Hiroshima University Hospital recently published a study about the efficacy of LightStrike pulsed xenon ultraviolet (UV) light disinfection technology on surfaces contaminated with the superbug vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE). This is the third published study about LightStrike’s efficacy against VRE, a deadly pathogen that can live on hospital surfaces for days to weeks.

Dutch insurance company a.s.r. deploys Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to perform the legally required Customer Due Diligence Check for insurance claims. This was a time-consuming administrative process for people, which is performed much faster and more accurately by the RPA robot. Rocking Robots spoke interviewed product owner Ruben Tondeur, and the makers Kelly Adams and Huub Ackermans of Ciphix.

When humans play in competition with a humanoid robot, they delay their decisions when the robot looks at them. This is the conclusion of Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), who investigated whether a humanoid robot’s gaze influences the way people reason in a social decision-making context. The study published in Science Robotics is supported by the European Research Council.

Worldwide government IT spending is forecast to total $557.3 billion in 2022, an increase of 6.5% from 2021, according to the latest forecast by Gartner.

Velodyne Lidar and MOV.AI  are collaborating to provide robot manufacturers with enterprise-grade automation solutions, including mapping, navigation, obstacle avoidance and risk avoidance. The MOV.AI Robotics Engine Platform, combined with Velodyne’s lidar sensors, addresses the growing demand for automation in dynamic collaborative environments such as e-commerce, logistics, manufacturing and hospitals.

The global Robot as a Service market was valued at US$ 12.6 Bn in 2020 and is expected to reach US$ 41.3 Bn by 2028 at a CAGR of 15.9% between 2021 and 2028. according to a report by Coherent Market Insights. The growing need to monitor, control, and manage several operations in the logistics, food and beverage defense, and household sectors along with the increasing labor cost is driving the market growth.  

Electric Sheep Robotics has developed a robot te operate lawnmowers autonomously. Over 50% of landscape maintenance involves lawn mowing, a tedious and repetitive process made physically grueling by exposure to harsh weather. This exacerbates the industry’s labor shortages, low growth and shrinking margins. To answer these problems, Electric Sheep has created the Dexter robot, clamp-on hardware and software that turns commercial lawn mowers into self driving machines.

Deere & Company has acquired Bear Flag Robotics for $250 million USD. Founded in 2017, the Silicon Valley-based startup develops autonomous driving technology compatible with existing machines. The deal accelerates the development and delivery of automation and autonomy on the farm and supports John Deere’s long-term strategy to create smarter machines with advanced technology to support individual customer needs.