Bots & Business

Artificial Intelligence Technology Solutions announced that its subsidiary Robotic Assistance Devices (RAD) is anticipating a multi-unit Proof of Concept order from a major US airport authority that owns and operates several airports.

Walmart announced it will be supporting the development of autonomous vehicles by making an investment in Cruise, a San Francisco-based company producing an all-electric fleet of self-driving cars. The investment aims to develop a last mile delivery ecosystem that’s fast, low-cost and scalable.

Carbon Robotics unveiled its third-generation autonomous weed elimination robots. The Autonomous Weeder combines robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and laser technology to drive through crop fields to identify, target and eliminate weeds.

Pegasystems announced Pega Process AI – a set of Pega Platform capabilities that help organizations optimize their business and customer operations in real time. By infusing self-optimizing AI and decision management into its low-code process automation software, Pega offers a solution that should intelligently triage millions of incoming customer requests, transactions, and other events at enterprise scale.

Logitech announced a partnership with Baidu Brain, beginning with the launch of its new Logitech Voice M380 Wireless Mouse with Speech Input in China. The Logitech Voice M380 Wireless Mouse is powered by intelligent Speech & Machine Translation technologies from Baidu Brain.

Domino’s , the largest pizza company in the world based on global retail sales, and Nuro, a self-driving delivery company, are launching autonomous pizza delivery in Houston. Beginning this week, select customers who place a prepaid order on certain days and times can choose to have their pizza delivered by Nuro’s R2 robot. Nuro’s R2 is the first completely autonomous, occupantless on-road delivery vehicle with a regulatory approval by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Hitachi announced that it had acquired approximately 96% of all issued shares of Kyoto Robotics Corporation, a start-up developing intelligent robotic systems. The need for automation is rapidly increasing due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Against this backdrop, Hitachi acquires Kyoto Robotics and its unique, advanced technologies, including three-dimensional vision and a control system of robots using AI.

The speed with which Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is developing is astonishing. When I look back on projects I did just a few year ago it seems like a different world. But part of the lessons we learnt in implementing RPA then, still hold true today. What remains unchanged as well is the enthusiasm of people when they realize how these software robots can help them in their day-to-day tasks.

Xenex Disinfection Services, provider of UV technology-based disinfection solutions, announced that it has been named an approved supplier in the Countess of Chester Commercial Procurement Services (CPS) National Framework Agreement for Decontamination Solutions.