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Yesterday, UiPath hosted the webinar RPA for Finance & Accounting: Improving Working Capital Metrics. Speakers included Mihai Faur, Chief Accounting Officer, who was responsible for introducing RPA to UiPath’s finance department: “Young people don’t want to do boring work anymore. Use robots for that “. In this video, Rocking Robots talks about this with him: “If you really want to get started with AI, you must first have your Robotic Process Automation in order”

This morning UiPath organized the webinar RPA for Finance & Accounting: Improving Working Capital Metrics. One of the speakers was Simona Balan, who herself was involved in the introduction of RPA in the finance department of UiPath: “We are our own customer zero”. In this video, Rocking Robots talks to her about this: “If we can do it in such a short time, anyone can do it.”

In a playful way, children learn to work better together by programming robots. Not only school children, but also employees of companies can almost literally brush up their skills in a fun way using robots. Rocking Robots spoke with the initiator of this concept, Tamar Neter from RobotWise.

An advanced robotic arm is more than just beautiful technology. Use of such a prosthesis is not just about confirming, as a conversation with Arie Rommers shows. He has been using a bionic arm, the Bebionic, for some time now. “You can get a really nice bionic arm, but your brain has to control it, so you have to feel good about yourself”

One of the worst affected sectors in the current corona crisis is aviation. KLM subsidiary Transavia has also been affected by the consequences of the corona outbreak. Numerous flights have been canceled or changed, which threatened to lead to a lot of work pressure and hassle on the administration. Together with Ciphix, Transavia has been able to overcome this by quickly deploying a virtual employee.

In two hours, robot Tally drives through the Decathlon branch in San Francisco to count the entire stock. According to Decathlon, this eliminates a lot of tedious and routine work that employees would otherwise have to do manually: it takes longer and is less accurate. This robot is part of a completely new infrastructure with software from MuleSoft / Salesforce.