Banks and other financial institutions typically have hundreds or thousands of their headcount involved in manual IT application testing. This means testing is a big burden on their resources, especially since this industry is highly regulated. Therefore, effectively automating application testing presents a huge opportunity.
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The global ‘smart harvest market’ was valued at $8,380.0 million in 2021 and is projected to reach $16,850.0 million by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 12.50% during the forecast period 2022-2027, according to ResearchAndMarkets.com.
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UK industrial workplaces have automated far fewer processes than most other countries and are significantly below the global average for robot adoption. Every day, UK workers spend a lot of time and effort on internal logistics. Now, a number of robotics experts in the UK have come together to show how UK manufacturing can become more competitive through the automation of manual tasks. Learn more in the upcoming online event for interested parties across the UK.
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Recently the CFO Automation Experience (CFOAX) organized the webinar State of Finance Transformation. At this event, research by the Business School of the University of Amsterdam was presented on the state of the digital transformation in finance according to executives from all over Europe.
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With a new software update in Huddly’s intelligent L1 camera for large rooms, users can take advantage of an AI-powered Speaker Framing feature that enables natural communication and makes for more dynamic meeting experiences.
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FastPath Automation (FPA), the Intelligent Automation and RPA division of CoSo Netherlands, today announced a partnership with work graph company Soroco. Through this partnership, FPA will integrate Soroco’s Scout, a work graph platform, into its business solutions.
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Mobility supplier DENSO has deployed six MiR250 autonomous mobile robots to transport materials in its 800,000 square foot powertrain component production facility in Athens, Tennessee. According to a case study from Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR), DENSO has successfully executed more than 500,000 missions since deploying its first MiR robot in 2020, recognizing a return on investment (ROI) in less than a year along with an ongoing need for more AMRs for additional logistics applications.
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Despite some minor setbacks, the number of cities where robot taxi ‘s are deployed keeps growing. Recently both Cruise, Waymo, Motional and Lyft announced expansion of their activities in autonomous transport of people.
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Softbot Awards 2022 celebrate automation
Last week the City of Amsterdam received the 2022 Softbot Award for their innovative use of RPA. This award celebrates innovation in automation, with a broad spectrum of use cases from both public and private sector. “A few years ago, RPA was mainly seen as a technology with which organizations started experimenting on a small scale. Now we see that we are in discussion at board level about organizing organizations differently with intelligent process automation.”
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Last week, the fifth edition of the National Cobot Day took place at Olmia in Tiel. Visitors could network and exchange knowledge about the rapidly growing cobot market in a relaxed atmosphere. ‘We see that robots are not used to replace people, but to enable them to do other, more challenging work.’