Bots & Business

The global smart robots market size is expected to reach $25 billion by 2026, rising at a market growth of 27.2% CAGR during the forecast period, according to Researchandmarkets in their report “Global Smart Robots Market By Component, By Mobility, By Operating Environment, By End User, By Region, Industry Analysis and Forecast, 2020 – 2026”.

The two-day Machine Tending Expo, February 23-24, focuses on deploying cobots to tend machines such as CNC, press brakes, injection molding machines or 3D printers. In live demos, keynotes and interactive booth sessions with exhibiting partners, Universal Robots shows its solutions on how to implement cobots, tackling the labor shortage, while improving crucial machine uptime.

Les nouvelles technologies d’automatisation et de robotisation sont un des leviers de la transformation digitale des fonctions financières. Initialement réservée aux grands groupes, propulsée par un effet de hype, supposée complexe, onéreuse et aux impacts humains dévastateurs, cette petite révolution numérique s’adapte aux entreprises de taille moindre, générant de la productivité, de la flexibilité, et créant de nouvelles opportunités pour le plus grand nombre.

Customer contact must deal with a fairly complex ecosystem of fragmented data across different sources. To manage this mission critical ecosystem, a robot can play an essential role and eliminate challenges like fragmented data and delivering personalization. And above all, to eliminate the frustration a lot of customers experience (CX) in their dealings with companies: ‘30% of a total call duration is silent time.’

An independently managed company of Siemens AG, Siemens Mobility has been a leading provider of transport solutions for over 160 years while developing its portfolio constantly through innovation. We wanted to know more precisely how Siemens Mobility is also digitizing its internal processes, so we asked Benjamin Bock specifically about the business benefits of Robot Process Automation (RPA) at Siemens Mobility.

Siemens Mobility ist ein eigenständig geführtes Unternehmen der Siemens AG. Siemens Mobility ist seit über 160 Jahren ein führender Anbieter im Bereich Transportlösungen und entwickelt sein Portfolio durch Innovationen ständig weiter. Wir wollten genauer wissen, wie Siemens Mobility auch seine internen Prozesse digitalisiert und haben Benjamin Bock speziell nach den Business Benefits der Robot Process Automation alias RPA bei Siemens Mobility befragt.

Self-driving car company Aurora has announced a global and strategic collaboration with Toyota and Denso to build and globally deploy self-driving cars at scale. It engineering teams will develop and test driverless-capable vehicles equipped with the Aurora Driver. And it is to lay the groundwork for the mass-production, launch, and support of these vehicles with Toyota on ride-hailing networks, including Uber’s, over the next few years.

What if tedious and time-consuming tasks done by inhouse counselors could be automated? That is the promise of legal tech. Even though legal tech takes over some work, it doesn’t mean lawyers should fear for their jobs. On the contrary, says Marcus Schmitt, General Manager of ECLA. ‘It frees up time for more complex and detailed cases, for which they otherwise would have too little time.’

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Si plusieurs études soulignent les bonnes perspectives de croissance de la Robotic Process Automation, les déploiements se font en douceur et uniquement dans quelques secteurs. La France se place dans la moyenne des pays convertis à la RPA.