Agility Robotics, creator of the bipedal robot Digit, announced that the company is opening RoboFab, a robot manufacturing facility in Salem, Oregon with the capability to produce more than 10,000 robots per year.
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Badger Technologies, a division of Jabil and provider of retail automation, has teamed up with Stop & Shop, an Ahold Delhaize USA company, to expand its use of Marty the Robot at more than 300 Stop & Shop stores throughout the Northeast. The robot now conducts product checks to help ensure greater on-shelf availability for customers by alerting store associates when items need re-stocking.
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Thirty-four per cent of organisations are either already using or implementing artificial intelligence (AI) application security tools to mitigate the accompanying risks of generative AI (GenAI), according to a new survey from Gartner. Over half (56%) of respondents said they are also exploring such solutions.
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The rapidly evolving world of security and law enforcement robotics is anticipated to witness a staggering growth of USD 3.69 billion from 2022 to 2027, expanding at an impressive CAGR of 15.55% during this period.
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Knightscope to Introduce Smart Parking Enforcement on AWS
Knightscope, developer of autonomous security robots and emergency communication systems, announced its plans to enhance public safety using Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company intends to launch a Smart Parking Enforcement feature in 2024, leveraging AWS’s extensive technology infrastructure.
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Gartner announced the top strategic technology trends in software engineering for 2023 and beyond. Analysts presented these findings during the Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit, which is taking place here through today.
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‘What happens now is the democratization of AI’
It seems that new developments in generative AI happen on a daily basis, where especially ChatGPT from OpenAI is drawing the most attention. But the technology has existed longer than that, and various parties have already developed well-performing AI-applications. Rocking Robots spoke with Reiner Bruns, CTO of the Dutch company Scotty Technologies, about the impact the current hype has on the market for AI.
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‘Autonomic Drones and Robots Will Learn While They Automate Tasks’
Gartner has highlighted five technologies that will transform the digital future of organisations. They include digital humans, satellite communications, tiny ambient IoT, secure computation and autonomic robots. Autonomic Drones and Robots Will Learn While They Automate Tasks, and digital humans will redefine assistants, robots and services.
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The energy sector plays a key role in Norway’s robot and automation industry, with renewable investments expected to boost automation demand according to a new market report from HowToRobot in collaboration with NFEA.
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Pixelle Specialty Solutions has installed a smelt spout robot manufactured by Valmet. The smelt robot is used for keeping recovery boiler spouts open and improving efficiencies in the liquor recovery cycle. The first smelt robot installation of its kind in North America, the robot regularly cleans the recovery boiler smelt spouts ensuring stable smelt flow, optimum cleaning and safer boiler operation, without manual intervention.