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Finance proves to be is a fertile ground for successful RPA-projects, as is illustrated by South African insurance company Santam. In their RPA-journey they managed to save 20.000 dollar each quarter and improve productivity eight times, freeing employees time to improve customer experience.

As hospitals look for new ways to stop the spread of germs, Elbert Memorial Hospital has taken high-tech measures with the deployment of two LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robots that quickly destroy viruses and bacteria in hard-to-clean places. The robots deactivate SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, on surfaces in 2 minutes.

From 26 to 29 August 2021, the first International Data Science Film Festival (IDSFF) will take place. The IDSFF is the first film festival in the world to focus entirely on Data Science and AI. The IDSFF will take place in the Mariënburg monastery, home JADS, in the center of ‘s-Hertogenbosch.

During the Tesla AI Day, Elon Musk presented a humanoid robot that uses Tesla’s neural network. The robot, about five feet high with a weight of sixty kilograms, must, among other things, take over repetitive work from people.

Research and consulting firm Jon Peddie Research  published a whitepaper on the benefits of companion robots, including the Sony Aibo dog. AIBO—is an acronym for Artificial Intelligence roBOt—meaning in the Japanese language “companion,” “friend,” or “pal.” Companion robots have been with us for over two decades and yet, according to JPR, are still not that well known.

Monogram Orthopedics, a startup in joint replacement surgery, announced it has crossed a five thousand Series B investor milestone on crowdfunding platform StartEngine. Aiming to personalize the $19.6B joint replacement market through artificial intelligence, robotics, and 3D printing, More than 1 million knee replacement surgeries are done a year in the United States alone, a figure that is expected to grow to 3.5 million by 2030.

The City of Huntington Park will extend its existing contract with Knightscope for their robot cop to continue patrolling a popular park in Los Angeles County. By a unanimous 5 to 0 vote, the City Council of Huntington Park approved the renewal of the Knightscope Autonomous Security Robot contract for an additional two-year term. 

FedEx Ground has implemented Berkshire Grey’s Robotic Product Sortation and Identification (RPSi) systems at its station in Queens, NY. Berkshire Grey, a developer of Intelligent Enterprise Robotics solutions, executed the RPSi systems to robotically sort the thousands of small packages that arrive daily in bulk into containers bound for other specific hubs and stations across the FedEx Ground network.  

RE2 Robotics has received $1 million in funding from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC) to develop a robotic system that can autonomously refuel AH-64 Apache helicopters in the field.

Velodyne Lidar announced ANYbotics is equipping its autonomous mobile robots with Velodyne’s Puck lidar sensors. ANYbotics robots provide industrial operators with an automated robotic inspection solution to support efforts in monitoring and maintaining plants.