Pieter Werner

NICE and Nichols College collaborate to provide hands-on education designed to meet the rapid growth in demand for automation experts. They will form a Centre for Intelligent Process Automation (CIPA) to jointly expand the next generation of robotic process automation (RPA) developers.

By 2025, 30% of critical infrastructure organisations will experience a security breach that will result in the halting of an operations- or mission-critical cyber-physical system, according to Gartner. . “Invest in threat intelligence and join industry groups to stay apprised of security best practices, upcoming mandates and requests for inputs from government entities.”

A new strategy to reduce the spread of COVID-19 employs a mobile robot that detects people in crowds who are not observing social-distancing rules, navigates to them, and encourages them to move apart. Adarsh Jagan Sathyamoorthy of the University of Maryland, College Park, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on December 1, 2021.

Universal Logic, developer of the Neocortex AI robot control software, announced a deal for their fully integrated Neocortex Pallet Sorter in several distribution centers of Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG).

AWS has announced its IoT RoboRunner is now available in preview in parts of the US and Europe. AWS IoT RoboRunner is a robotics service for enterprises to build and deploy applications that help fleets of robots work together seamlessly. With AWS IoT RoboRunnerthey can build applications that make it possible to interoperate and orchestrate robots from a single view by reducing the complex development work required to connect robots to each other and the rest of your industrial software systems.

DHL and AMR provider Geek+ are working together on integrated robotics solutions for full-scale automation DHL’s Asia Pacific Innovation Center in Singapore. They will use the RoboShuttle RS2 single tote-picking robot and collaborative robot arm technology. The project is a collaboration between Geek+ and AI developer OSARO. The collaborative robot arm, Motoman HC10DT, is provided by the robot manufacturer Yaskawa.

The Estonian-based technology company Cleveron’s unmanned autonomous vehicle took on the city of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, to be part of a 5-day pilot project carried out by DPD Netherlands and Cleveron. This marks the start of bringing autonomous delivery services to the public streets of the Netherlands.

MvR Digital Workforce and Pleunz Digital Workforce Solutions announced today they decided to join forces. This leads to a new full-scale RPA provider for government, healthcare and business which is eager to offer a broader range of RPA-solutions and ready to use digital employees. “As of today we are even better prepared for a future with AI”

A grant by the National Science Foundation to researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Syracuse University aims to open new avenues of robotic study of coral reefs by developing autonomous underwater vehicles capable of navigating complex environments and of collecting data over long periods of time.

McLaren Racing today announced a new partnership with AI Cloud platform DataRobot, as an Official Partner of the McLaren Formula 1 team. DataRobot delivers a unified platform for organisations across industries to unlock the full potential of AI and deliver clear impact for their business goals, powering over a trillion predictions for leading companies around the world.