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A recent survey by Gartner. found that 47% of digital workers struggle to find information or data needed to effectively perform their jobs. The Gartner survey was conducted from September through November 2022 among 4,861 full-time employees that use digital technology for work purposes, at organisations with 100 or more employees in the US, UK, India and China.

Gartner identified the top 10 data and analytics (D&A) trends for 2023 that can guide D&A leaders to create new sources of value by anticipating change and transforming extreme uncertainty into new business opportunities.

“As AI development affects nearly every aspect of our lives and its influence will further increase in the foreseeable future, member states must take concrete steps to ensure that people’s human rights are safeguarded in the design, development and deployment of AI systems” says Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović in a report released yesterday.

Scientists from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, in collaboration with researchers from Boston University, have developed a machine-learning tool that shows promise in predicting the onset of Parkinson’s disease before the appearance of symptoms. This breakthrough, described in a recent publication in the journal ACS Central Science, involves the analysis of biomarkers in patients’ bodily fluids using neural networks.

OSARO, provider of machine-learning-enabled robotics for e-commerce, has launched the OSARO Robotic Kitting System. This addition to its range of e-commerce robots is equipped with piece-picking skills and end effectors to handle the constantly changing array of product SKUs that must be organized, placed, and packaged into custom kits.

OrionStar USA has announced that Lucki, its AI Delivery robot, has been integrated with ChatGPT. This integration means Lucki can communicate with customers, leveraging ChatGPT’s advanced AI capabilities.

A team of physicists, engineers, and mathematicians at the Georgia Institute of Technology are using the movement of centipedes to develop a new theory of multilegged locomotion. They created many-legged robotic models, discovering the robot with redundant legs could move across uneven surfaces without any additional sensing or control technology as the theory predicted.

Pudu Robotics provider of commercial service robots, has secured hundreds of millions of yuan in its C4 financing round, marking the second time the Company has raised funds in 2023, following its previous US$15 million C3 round announced in February. The latest financing round seems to reflect that the capital market is regaining confidence in the service robotics industry as a whole.

Novva Data Centers has announced the opening of a new data center in Storey County, Nevada in late 2024. The 20-acre campus will be located in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, one of the largest industrial parks in the world, near major tech firms such as Apple, Google, and Tesla. The facility will feature several robots for monitoring, including autonomous aerial drone security and robotic dogs.

Medical Robotics Market will reach US$ 72.22 Billion in 2030, according to a report ResearchAndMarkets.com. The medical robotics market has been growing steadily in recent years and is expected to continue in the coming years. As a result, Medical Robotics Market was valued at US$ 11.66 Billion in 2022.