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Dutch agricultural robot AgXeed won first prize at the European event Pitch your Robot, which took place last week. The aim of the agROBOfood event was to allow SMEs to present solutions for the agri-food sector to investors so that they can obtain funding to continue their work. Wageningen University & Research was coordinator of this European program.

In the era of social distancing, using robots for some health care interactions is a promising way to reduce in-person contact between health care workers and sick patients. However, a key question that needs to be answered is how patients will react to a robot entering the exam room.

The agriculture analytics market is expected to reach $2.27 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 17.5% during the forecast period of 2020 to 2027. The growth of this market is mainly attributed to the rising adoption of advanced analytics, data-driven decision-making techniques, and growing digitalization in the agriculture industry.

RPA is booming. A growing number of organisations recognize the potential of robots to eliminate repetitive administrative tasks for their workforce. But as RPA is growing, it is also evolving into an even more intelligent digital workforce. The combination of AI and RPA already enhances many automation solutions. Rocking Robots talked tot wo experts on the subject: Boris Krumrey, Global VP Automation Innovations at UiPath and Mathijs Gast, CEO of Dutch AI/RPA provider Ciphix.

Psychologists have long found that people behave differently than when they learn of peers’ actions. A new study by computer scientists found that when individuals in an experiment about autonomous vehicles were informed that their peers were more likely to sacrifice their own safety to program their vehicle to hit a wall rather than hit pedestrians who were at risk, the percentage of individuals willing to sacrifice their own safety increased by approximately two-thirds.

Uit onderzoek in opdracht van reichelt elektronik blijkt dat steeds meer bedrijven gaan vertrouwen op AI voor voorspellend onderhoud. Naar verachting zal deze trend zich doorzetten, en is voorspellend onderhoud over tien jaar zelfs de norm.

Accenture has acquired Pollux, a provider of industrial robots, headquartered in Joinville, Brazil. The acquisition will expand Accenture’s capabilities for clients in consumer goods, pharmaceutical and automotive industries seeking to make their factories, plants and supply chains more productive, safe and sustainable.

Robots that could take on basic healthcare tasks to support the work of doctors and nurses may be the way of the future. Who knows, maybe a medical robot can prescribe your medicine someday? That’s the idea behind 3D structural-sensing robots being developed and tested at Simon Fraser University by Woo Soo Kim, associate professor in the School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering.

Aerospace and technology company Paramount Group and Sarcos Robotics, provider of mobile robotic defense systems announced that the companies have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to bring robotic systems to government and industrial customers in the Middle East and Africa.

Tech company Tookitaki uses HPE GreenLake to deliver AI and machine learning-based anti-money laundering solution to financial institutions. The new offering delivers Tookitaki’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered anti-money laundering (AML) solution in a flexible as-a-service consumption model.