United Kingdom

Locus Robotics announced that it has now passed the quarter-billion (250,000,000) units picked volume level heading into the 2020 holiday peak season. Locus robots now pick more than ten-thousand units every 15 minutes, a 263% increase in units picked vs. the same period last year.

New way of teaching, educational robots are experiencing strong growth every year. From kindergarten to high school, they support students in their learning and are a fun teaching method.

The Guardian XO industrial exoskeleton, a full-body, battery-powered wearable industrial robot designed to increase strength and endurance, has been chosen by TIME as one of the 100 Best Inventions of 2020. The Guardian XO exoskeleton was selected in the Productivity category. An earlier hydraulically-powered prototype version of the Guardian XO exoskeleton, the XOS 2, was also named to TIME’s Best Inventions of 2010 list.

C-level executives and senior managers at large organizations are increasingly requiring employees to have, and seeking new candidates who have, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) skills. When choosing between two similarly qualified job candidates, 73% of surveyed executives said they would pick the candidate with more experience with automation and AI tools, even if the role does not require those abilities.

A jointly developed new report by Europol, the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and Trend Micro looking into current and predicted criminal uses of artificial intelligence (AI) was released today. The report provides law enforcers, policy makers and other organizations with information on existing and potential attacks leveraging AI and recommendations on how to mitigate these risks.

Being on the journey of implementing process mining in Philips from the start as one of the project managers, driving the unlocking of value from our first mining cycles, I would like to share some of the lessons we have learnt so far.

This week the webinar “Transform your contact center operations” took place, organized by the Customer Contact Management Association (CCMA) and UiPath. Sandra van Maarseveen, Manager Customer Care & Operations at Eneco spoke openly during this digital meeting about the use of robots and the associated challenges at utility companies.

The global industrial robotics market is estimated to account for US$ 69.1 Mn in terms of value, growing at a CAGR of 6.4% during forecast 2020-2027, according to Coherent Market Insights (CMI).

The Ruidoso Municipal School District in the US is the first school system in the world to deploy Xenex LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robots, to deactivate SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in two minutes. The robots are disinfecting classrooms, libraries, offices, cafeterias, restrooms, locker rooms, gymnasiums, and more.

Badger Technologies is teaming up with STCR to increase the momentum of multipurpose robot rollouts by independent and regional grocers around the world. This collaboration will speed deployments of Badger Technologies autonomous robots to address critical out-of-stock, price integrity, planogram compliance and other operational inefficiencies.