People in Robotics

The coronavirus crisis has given a major boost to the use of robot-assisted process automation (RPA) in Randstad France. CFO Odile Schmutz pointed out recently during a digital festival organized by specialist UiPath.

A team of New Jersey researchers has demonstrated that high-dose therapy gait training using robotic exoskeletons may aid early rehabilitation for acute stroke.

Businesses face several challenges regarding automation. A returning challenge is the question where to start. They want to realize ROI quickly, but they do not know how to do that. Executives, for example people in the finance function, are overwhelmed with all kinds of demands. Robots as a Service and Process Mining as Service, provided by Humans4Help, offer a smart solution to this demand for automation.

Roboyo, a provider of intelligent automation, has entered the UK as part of its global expansion to support clients worldwide. To spearhead this client-centric growth, it has added two high-calibre business service leaders to its senior team. Roboyo has appointed ex-North Highland UK CEO, Charles Vivian as UK Managing Director and ex-Mckinsey and former Russell Investments CEO, Andrew Doman as Chairman.

RockingRobots recently sat down with Karen Inbar, Director of Product Marketing at robotic process automation supplier NICE, to get her perspective on how the approach is being seen in the UK market.

Ultimately, it’s about people, not technology. It has become clear again in 2020 that technology and innovation are not an end goal, but tools that are used to achieve a business or social goal. That is one of the recurring themes in the conversations we have had for Rocking Robots this year.

By unanimous vote of the Heads of Delegations of the Member States, ALLAI was accepted as Observer to the CAHAI, the Council of Europe’s Ad-hoc Committee on AI.

UiPath today announced automation champions from organizations within the channel partner ecosystem across the EMEA region who stood out through their outstanding achievements in the past year. These automation ambassadors have shown leadership, limitless appetite for driving innovation and breaking new ground and a strong commitment to enabling joint customers to make the best of the opportunities offered by the latest functions of the UiPath Automation Platform.

Enterprise software industry veteran Gavin Mee–who’s held leadership roles at Adobe, Salesforce and Oracle–became Managing Director of UK & Ireland at RPA leader UiPath in December. We were lucky enough to be the first press to speak to him about his new role.

Pascal Bornet fait figure d’expert et de pionnier de l’automatisation intelligente (ou « IA » pour « intelligent automation »). C’est à lui que les entreprises Mckinsey & Company et Ernst & Young (EY) doivent leurs processus d’automatisation. Des entreprises où ses connaissances ont permis de mener des centaines d’entreprises à passer à l’IA, tous secteurs confondus. Il est également un membre éminent du Conseil technologique de Forbes et a été reconnu comme l’un des plus grands représentants du secteur technologique mondial en 2019.