People in Robotics

UiPath today announced that Renzo Taal has joined the Company as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of EMEA, effective October 1. Taal joins UiPath from Salesforce, where he held several international roles and most recently served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Asia.

An advanced robotic arm is more than just beautiful technology. Use of such a prosthesis is not just about confirming, as a conversation with Arie Rommers shows. He has been using a bionic arm, the Bebionic, for some time now. “You can get a really nice bionic arm, but your brain has to control it, so you have to feel good about yourself”

In a playful way, children learn to work better together by programming robots. Not only school children, but also employees of companies can almost literally brush up their skills in a fun way using robots. Rocking Robots spoke with the initiator of this concept, Tamar Neter from RobotWise.

This morning UiPath organized the webinar RPA for Finance & Accounting: Improving Working Capital Metrics. One of the speakers was Simona Balan, who herself was involved in the introduction of RPA in the finance department of UiPath: “We are our own customer zero”. In this video, Rocking Robots talks to her about this: “If we can do it in such a short time, anyone can do it.”

Yesterday, UiPath hosted the webinar RPA for Finance & Accounting: Improving Working Capital Metrics. Speakers included Mihai Faur, Chief Accounting Officer, who was responsible for introducing RPA to UiPath’s finance department: “Young people don’t want to do boring work anymore. Use robots for that “. In this video, Rocking Robots talks about this with him: “If you really want to get started with AI, you must first have your Robotic Process Automation in order”

According to popular speaker Gerd Leonhard, there are still many misunderstandings about Artificial Intelligence. In many cases, the current possibilities are greatly overestimated, sometimes in combination with black scenarios for the future of humanity. In practice, AI is certainly a very useful tool, but still no more than that. We spoke with him at the Axians IT’s Yours event about his vision on “Artificial Intelligence and the future of humanity”. Bottom line from Leonhard: at the moment Artificial Intelligence is actually mainly Intelligent Assistance.

Respect and responsibility, that’s what developing AI is all about, says Kathy Baxter, Architect, Ethical AI Practice at Salesforce.  “In fact, developing AI is like raising a child. As a developer of AI, you are actually a parent.” According to Baxter, we must therefore always show sufficient respect and responsibility.

The ZeroAbuse.AI AI tool is being developed to detect child abuse. Joelle Casteix, who works for the non-profit organization Zero Abuse Project, explains how it works.

How can criminals use AI? And how can the police use AI to track down criminals? The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) is conducting research into this under the direction of Irakli Beridze.