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The German robotics and automation sector is on track for another record year: the industry is forecasting a 13 percent increase in sales to 16.2 billion euros in 2023. In 2022, companies already recorded a 5 percent sales increase to 14.3 billion euros, says VDMA Robotics.

Constellation Clearsight, provider of energy inspections, announced a long-term agreement with Voliro AG, a Swiss-based technology provider that specializes in developing advanced airborne robots for critical infrastructure inspection and maintenance.

Unter dem Slogan „Shaping the Future of Intralogistics“ zeigt Continental neue Lösungen aus den Bereichen Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) sowie Reifen, digitale Lösungen und Lösungen für die Materialflusstechnik. Dieser Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) automatisiert den Materialfluss in Produktionswerken, Lagerhallen oder Logistikzentren.

Greater efficiency, lower error rate when transferring data between different systems, and employees spared from completing tedious routine tasks. All examples of added value achieved since the end of 2019 by insurer HDI Austria with the help of robotic process automation (RPA) and the processes they automated. The company has achieved an automation rate of 92%, saving them around 600 person days over the last year and a half.

Tetraplegic patients are prisoners of their own bodies, unable to speak or perform the slightest movement. Researchers have been working for years to develop systems that can help these patients carry out some tasks on their own.

Anna Dimitrova is the CFO of telecommunications provider Vodafone Germany. In an interview with RockingRobots, she explains how her tasks have changed apace with digitalisation and why she now sees herself more as a Chief Value Officer (CVO) – also with the help of Robotic Process Automation (RPA).

A new generation of robotic tools are beginning to be realized thanks to a combination of strong ‘muscles’ and sensitive ‘nerves’ created from smart polymeric materials. A research team led by the smart materials experts Professor Stefan Seelecke and Junior Professor Gianluca Rizzello at Saarland University is exploring fundamental aspects of this exciting field of soft robotics.

Die vom Bundesumweltministerium (BMU) beauftragte Studie »Potenziale der schwachen Künstlichen Intelligenz für die betriebliche Ressourceneffizienz« untersucht konkrete Einsatzmöglichkeiten von KI, um die Ressourceneffizienz vor allem in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) zu steigern.

A team of researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed a new early warning system for vehicles that uses artificial intelligence to learn from thousands of real traffic situations. A study of the system was carried out in cooperation with the BMW Group. The results show that, if used in today’s self-driving vehicles, it can warn seven seconds in advance against potentially critical situations that the cars cannot handle alone – with over 85% accuracy.

Leica Geosystems announced a reality capture solution for a variety of industries. By combining Boston Dynamics agile mobile robot Spot with the industry-proven Leica RTC360 3D laser scanner, scanning time spent by human operators is significantly reduced by programming the devices to repeat automated scanning paths through sites.