Marco van der Hoeven

Knightscope, developer of security robots, today announced the commencement of its offering of up to $40 million of Class A common stock, with shares to be listed immediately following closing on the Nasdaq Global Market (“NASDAQ”) under the ticker symbol “KSCP.” The offering is for up to 4 million shares priced at $10 per share.

Recently, machine learning company Hyperscience began working with partners in the Netherlands. The Hyperscience Platform helps enterprise and public sector organizations automate their data- and document-heavy processes, resulting in greater efficiencies, lower costs , fewer errors and better customer and employee experiences. Rocking Robots talked about this strategy with the EMEA General Manager at Hyperscience, Nay Odutola.

Preceding discussions at the United Nations in Geneva on autonomous weapons The Future of Life Institute has published a sequel to the grim warning video Slaughterbots, that in 2017 warned the world of the dangers of autonomous weapons. In the new video those lethal autonomous weapons have arrived.

A growing number of CFOs have automation as a topic on their agenda. On the one hand the Covid-crisis forced transformation, on the other hand there is a more deep-rooted wish to perfect processes to serve the business better. But there is more to automation than just RPA as a tool; people are a key element in this, says Christopher Argent from Generation CFO in this interview with Rocking Robots.

ABB is entering into a strategic partnership with Swiss-based start-up Sevensense, founded in 2018 as a spin-off from ETH Zurich, to enhance ABB’s new autonomous mobile robotics (AMR) offering with artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D vision mapping technology. The technology will offer customers unprecedented levels of flexibility as mobile robots will be able to navigate autonomously in complex, dynamic indoor and outdoor environments close to people.

The finance function has evolved towards being the front runner of automation in insurance organizations. Several factors contribute to this evolution, among others strict regulation. This has implications for the role of the CFO. Rocking Robots talked to Frederic Moinier about his views on the insurance business and the value of automation.

Worldwide artificial intelligence (AI) software revenue is forecast to total $62.5 billion in 2022, an increase of 21.3% from 2021, according to a new forecast from Gartner. “The AI software market is picking up speed, but its long-term trajectory will depend on enterprises advancing their AI maturity,” said Alys Woodward, senior research director at Gartner.

How do CIOs feel about deploying RPA and AI in their organization? What barriers are still there and what are the opportunities? Roger Camrass (CIONET UK) collaborated with UiPath to explore the role of the CIO in automation and RPA. To do this, they surveyed CIOs from fifteen major organizations. In this interview, Camrass talks about the most important results of the research and his vision on the future of RPA and automation.

IT spending in EMEA is forecast to total $1.3 trillion in 2022, an increase of 4.7% from 2021, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. The 2022 growth rate will be slower than in 2021 when EMEA IT spending is expected to grow 6.3%.

Elbit Systems has demonstrated to the RAS Concept Development & Experimentation Program of the Royal Netherlands Army the Company’s Robotic Autonomous Systems (RAS) capabilities for Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions utilizing heterogeneous autonomous swarms.