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Accenture buys Canadian Eclipse Automation, provider of manufacturing automation and robotics solutions. With this acquisition Accenture will be able to offer automated production lines that combine cloud, data and artificial intelligence (AI).

Drastically reducing administrative tasks is only the first step on the automation journey for the finance division of Scania. RPA is helping it improve processes and the way it operates.

For a good 80 percent of industrial decision-makers in Germany, robots play an important role in saving resources and operating sustainably in production: robotics improves material and energy efficiency in manufacturing. In addition, green tech products can be manufactured competitively.

AMD has introduced the Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit, an addition to the Kria portfolio of adaptive system-on-modules (SOMs) and developer kits. A scalable and out-of-the-box development platform for robotics, the Kria KR260 offers a path to production deployment with the existing Kria K26 adaptive SOMs.

Robotics integrator Aerobotix has partnered with Minteq International to help speed up the production of hypersonic missiles and aircraft for U.S. Government projects. Under the agreement, Aerobotix will distribute Minteq’s FIREX RX-2390 Thermal Protection System (TPS) coating for hypersonic flight hardware.

From 28 to 30 June, the thirteenth edition of the European Robotics Forum (ERF) will take place in Rotterdam. With about a thousand visitors, this will be the largest robotics event in Europe, where a diverse group of participants, from industry and science to government and end users, will exchange views on a wide range of topics.

Blue Ocean Robotics has expanded its management by adding two expert profiles. The company’s new CEO, Janus Doré Pagh, has a solid background within industry and service. The former front person at the robotics company, Claus Risager, will fill a role as Chief Strategy Officer (CSO). As the new CFO, the company welcomes: Carsten Gram Andersen.

ABB will deliver a comprehensive range of robotic solutions for Scania’s new highly automated battery assembly plant in Sweden. The new facility is part of Scania’s strategy in the electrification of heavy vehicles. Scania will invest more than SEK 1 billion ($108 million) in the facility over several years and the new Södertälje plant is expected to be fully operational by 2023.

The use of industrial robots in factories around the world is accelerating at a high rate: 126 robots per 10,000 employees is the new average of global robot density in the manufacturing industries – nearly double the number five years ago (2015: 66 units). This is according to the 2021 World Robot Report.

AWS has announced its IoT RoboRunner is now available in preview in parts of the US and Europe. AWS IoT RoboRunner is a robotics service for enterprises to build and deploy applications that help fleets of robots work together seamlessly. With AWS IoT RoboRunnerthey can build applications that make it possible to interoperate and orchestrate robots from a single view by reducing the complex development work required to connect robots to each other and the rest of your industrial software systems.