Bots in Society

At the New York Climate Week and the UN General Assembly Energi.AI is launched, an initiative to generate intelligent software solutions for businesses that want to reduce their carbon footprint.  The goal of Energi.AI is to ensure 10 million companies are carbon negative by 2030.

The fast spread of the highly infectious Delta variant underscores the need for faster identification of COVID-19 mutations. Uniting governments and medical communities in this challenge, the University of Oxford and Oracle’s Global Pathogen Analysis System (GPAS) is now being used by organizations on nearly every continent.

Purely looking at ESG and sustainability from a regulatory point of view would be a serious mistake and an underestimation of the importance of both topics. In a world that pivots increasingly more to stakeholdership, banks hear equally important messages from customers, investors and society, in general, to dedicate more resources and attention to topics like ESG and sustainability.

Loop Robots, a European mobile robot company headquartered in Delft, the Netherlands, announced the close of $2M seed investment by a group of private entrepreneurial investors led by Nanotech Ventures and Locapes Investment Fund.

The Moerdijk industrial site, Port of Moerdijk and security company Securitas use drones to continuously monitor all kinds of safety aspects. This marks the start of the next phase of their drone pilot project. The pilot is a showcase for the use of drones in improvement and professionalization of the security of the Moerdijk port and industrial estate.

Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology combined label-free microscopic imaging with artificial intelligence to quickly detect and classify SARS-CoV-2.

Flow Robotics, a Denmark-based producer of robots for automated liquid handling and the creator of the flowbot ONE, announced that it has established its North American Subsidiary, Flow Robotics, Inc., with operations in Princeton, NJ. The company’s first product, the flowbot ONE, is designed to transform how liquid handling responsibilities are performed in the laboratory by automating manual pipetting tasks.

Researchers from Hiroshima University Hospital recently published a study about the efficacy of LightStrike pulsed xenon ultraviolet (UV) light disinfection technology on surfaces contaminated with the superbug vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE). This is the third published study about LightStrike’s efficacy against VRE, a deadly pathogen that can live on hospital surfaces for days to weeks.

Pepper ist ein humanoider Roboter, der darauf programmiert ist, Menschen und deren Mimik und Gestik zu analysieren und auf diese Emotionszustände entsprechend zu reagieren. Der Marktstart war 2015, nun hat der Hersteller Softbank die Produktion aber eingestellt. Rockingrobots diskutiert mit Thomas Oehring, CEO von Novabotics und Mathias Hofmann (CTO) über die Hintergründe – und welche Einsatzgebiete sie heute und in der Zukunft von Robotern im Alltag sehen.

As hospitals look for new ways to stop the spread of germs, Elbert Memorial Hospital has taken high-tech measures with the deployment of two LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robots that quickly destroy viruses and bacteria in hard-to-clean places. The robots deactivate SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, on surfaces in 2 minutes.