Marco van der Hoeven

SK Telecom held a press conference in Barcelona, Spain, to unveil its plans to achieve ‘AI to Everywhere’ in five different areas, namely Customer & Technology, Time & Space, AI Transformation(AIX) for Industries, Core Business Model, and ESG.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AI startup Hugging Face will be partnering to bring the language generation tool to customers of the AWS cloud. This announcement illustrates the heated arms race in AI, which saw both Microsoft and Google investing heavily in AI.

Microsoft has been forced to make radical changes in the testing of ChatGPT 3.5 in their Bing search engine, after a string of testers published strange and sometimes disconcerting results in their conversation with the chatbot. Conversations with this version of AI will be limited to five chat turns.

Walking robots, flying drones, protective exoskeletons and more were developed at UMass Lowell, which recently celebrated 10 years of robotics at the university’s New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation (NERVE) Center.

The stock of operational robots around the globe hit a new record of about 3.5 million units – the value of installations reached an estimated 15.7 billion USD. The International Federation of Robotics analyzes the top 5 trends shaping robotics and automation in 2023.

The rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica appears to be driven by different processes under its floating ice shelf than researchers previously understood. Novel observations from where the ice enters the ocean show that while melting beneath much of the ice shelf is weaker than expected, melting in cracks and crevasses is much faster.

Just one year after returning from its unscheduled break, automatica, the exhibition for smart automation and robotics, will be held again from June 27 to 30, 2023. This is due to a change in its rhythm. From now on, the international automation industry will meet at the Munich exhibition center in odd years, side by side with LASER World of PHOTONICS—World’s Leading Trade Fair with Congress for Photonics Components, Systems and Applications.

Driven by the resurgence in robot orders from automotive companies, the North American robotics market set all-time records in both robots sold and value in 2022. According to a report from the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), North American companies ordered 44,196 robots valued at $2.38 billion last year, representing increases of 11% and 18%, respectively, over 2021, the previous record.

Next month the 2023 edition of the European Robotics Forum will be hosted in the ‘Robot Capital of the World’, Odense in Denmark. Rocking Robots talked to the chairman of this major robotics event, Christian Schlette of the University of Southern Denmark. ‘Robotics has become a major factor in engineering, where so many different technologies and methods come together.’

Security Robots Market size was valued at USD 32.23 billion in 2021 and is predicted to reach USD 119.29 billion by 2030 at a CAGR of 13.4% during the forecast period 2022-2030, according to a new report by Researchandmarkets.