Bots & Business

Digitization and AI have become a matter of intense public discourse. However, this leads to more questions than answers. This is where automatica, held from June 27 to 30, 2023, comes in with its digital solutions and components from the fields of robotics, machine vision, and assembly technology: It’s a place where visitors gain first-hand knowledge of how these technologies can increase the efficiency, safety, and sustainability of industrial production.

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.

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.

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.

As technology continues to advance, robotic process automation (RPA) has become a critical enterprise automation fabric technology. RPA products and ecosystems have evolved significantly over the years, with enterprises trying to build stable, scaled RPA programs that can help deliver the autonomous enterprises of the future. However, to achieve the desired success from RPA initiatives, automation leaders must take into account Forrester’s 10 golden rules of RPA success, which are presented in this report.

The global construction robots market is expected to reach $3,542.8 million by 2030, according to a report by Grand View Research. The market is projected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 17.5% from 2023 to 2030, driven by the increasing need for environmentally friendly and affordable construction, reduced environmental impact and labor costs.

In a recent Gartner poll of more than 2,500 executive leaders, 45% reported that the publicity of ChatGPT has prompted them to increase artificial intelligence (AI) investments. Seventy percent of executives said that their organisation is in investigation and exploration mode with generative AI, while 19% are in pilot or production mode.

UiPath announced it has expanded its partnership with SAP to offer the UiPath Automation Platform to customers, which builds upon the SAP Build Process Automation. The expanded partnership enables customers to execute business transformations, migrate critical business systems to the cloud, and augment existing business systems with the UiPath Automation Platform.