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Relay Robotics, leading manufacturer of autonomous service robots to the hospitality industry, introduced its newest hotel robot, Relay2, at the NYU International Hospitality Industry Investment Conference. This announcement comes at a key economic time. More than 402,000 jobs remain unfilled in leisure and hospitality, leaving 87% of hotels short-staffed, according to the recent AHLA Survey on hotel staff shortages.

OrionStar USA has announced that Lucki, its AI Delivery robot, has been integrated with ChatGPT. This integration means Lucki can communicate with customers, leveraging ChatGPT’s advanced AI capabilities.

Pudu Robotics unveiled its newest offering, the PuduBot 2. Featuring a range of upgrades, this new generation of universal delivery robots offers better environment adaptability, stronger sensors, higher battery power capacity, and superior stability to the first-generation PuduBot launched in 2017.

Pepper ist ein humanoider Roboter, der darauf programmiert ist, Menschen und deren Mimik und Gestik zu analysieren und auf diese Emotionszustände entsprechend zu reagieren. Der Marktstart war 2015, nun hat der Hersteller Softbank die Produktion aber eingestellt. Rockingrobots diskutiert mit Thomas Oehring, CEO von Novabotics und Mathias Hofmann (CTO) über die Hintergründe – und welche Einsatzgebiete sie heute und in der Zukunft von Robotern im Alltag sehen.

The pandemic has been a catalyst for service robots. Now Ava Robotics joins the vendors making UV disinfection robots to manage COVID-19-related and other cleaning needs. This robot provides autonomous UV disinfection in workplace settings, including corporate offices, warehouses, and other work spaces.

Pudo Robotics announced today the release of Puductor2, an anti-pandemic robot. This intelligent robot has two disinfection modes of ultra-dry mist and UV-C ultraviolet ray, featuring large domain of walk, long detection distance, high positioning accuracy, and stronger environmental adaptability. Puductor2 further expands its scope of application to include such locations as government halls, schools, medical institutions, waiting rooms, airports, subways, banks and other public places.

Danish technology is going to fight bacteria and viruses in municipal buildings in the city of Odense. The Health Committee in the municipality has just decided to sign an agreement with UVD Robots, a subsidiary of Blue Ocean Robotics, regarding testing of autonomous UV disinfection robots at a school and a rehabilitation facility. The pilot project is a part of an effort towards making Odense the world’s best robot city, where close cooperation between the city’s technology and robot companies is an important component. 

To persuade his fellow citizens to enter, very reluctantly, their second national pandemic Lockdown, one of the main arguments being made UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is the protection of the NHS. But if ensuring the nation’s health service has capacity to cope with rising COVID hospitalisation, why are we still using humans to wipe down dirty corridors and not have these staff available for more frontline care?