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Luxembourg based company emma is making waves in the cloud computing industry with its solution for managing multiple cloud environments. The company provides a platform that allows customers to manage their various cloud deployments through a single tool, offering visibility and control over resources, team members, and spending.

Flying Iron Simulations and the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RAF Coningsby have collaborated in using Microsoft Flight Simulator and 3D printed controls to provide pilots with emergency procedure training.  In a video published by Authentikit, Squadron Leader Mark ‘Disco’ Discombe MBE shares his decision-making process during the simulated failure.

The robotics industry in the Netherlands has expanded fast and must become more commercially focused to bridge funding gap and realize growth prospects, says industry association.

Ford is testing AI technology for automated driving to make the production process even more efficient. For this project, the new cars not only drive themselves off the production line but also to the final checkpoint. Then, they charge themselves and park themselves for transport to the customer.

Stanford and Google researchers have made a new breakthrough n artificial intelligence (AI) by creating “generative agents” that behave in a remarkably human-like way. These agents were programmed to have the ability to communicate with others and their environment, remember and recall information, reflect on observations, and form plans for each day. In essence, they were given the capacity to think and act like humans.

“Our time is characterized by major global challenges such as climate protection, supply chain resilience, lack of specialists, and the establishment of digital production facilities Rocking Robots sat down with Anja Schneider, Exhibition Director of automatica, to discuss the growing significance of automatica as the world’s leading exhibition for intelligent automation and robotics, and the rapidly evolving role of robotics in organizations.

Two researchers from Georgia Tech are studying the trust-repair strategies that robots can use when they deceive humans. Kantwon Rogers, a Ph.D. student, and Reiden Webber, an undergraduate in computer science, are researching robot deception in a driving simulation to explore the effectiveness of apologies to repair trust after robots lie.

Labman Automation, a UK-based company creating laboratory automation solutions, has partnered with cobots manufacturer Universal Robots, to develop the MultiDose powder dosing system.  The MultiDose system will enable pharmaceutical companies to rollout products for testing, bringing them to market faster. It is meant to save technicians up to six hours per experiment, compared to manual processes. 

‘We want them to come back to the robot community in Odense’, say both Christian Schlette and Morten Nielsen in this Rocking robots videoreport from ERF 2023. This major European robotics event was hosted last week in Denmark, receiving over 1,200 participants from academia, government and business.

In recent years, the working world has undergone significant transformation due to digitalization, skills shortages, and sustainability, presenting companies with an increasing number of challenges. The work attitude of the upcoming generation of employees is also changing and influencing the labor market: young talents have a new understanding of work and associated demands for their workplace. To remain attractive to well-educated applicants in the long term, companies must continuously realign themselves.