Exposure to increased automation through robotics at work increases the risk of unemployment and decreases wealth accumulation, particularly for less educated households, finds new research from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. 

Professor Andrew Cooper from the University of Liverpool’s Department of Chemistry has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society Research Professorship to further develop the mobile robotic chemist to fast forward advances in materials science.

NICE  announced new RPA (Robotic Process Automation) capabilities in its latest release, using AI to identify focused opportunities for automation. With NEVA Discover’s new process analytics solution and semi-supervised machine learning, organisations can optimise their business process executed elements to achieve complete performance.

The vision of Rocking Robots is to report on the interaction between humans and robots. The interviews we published this year show that we as humans are increasingly successful in making robots work for us. However, it remains important to pay attention to pre-eminently human issues such as ethics, acceptance and safety. Where that happens, applications of technology arise that actually help us as humans.

UK industrial workplaces have automated far fewer processes than most other countries and are significantly below the global average for robot adoption. Every day, UK workers spend a lot of time and effort on internal logistics. Now, a number of robotics experts in the UK have come together to show how UK manufacturing can become more competitive through the automation of manual tasks. Learn more in the upcoming online event for interested parties across the UK.

UK RPA provider The Robot Exchange will enter the automation market in the Netherlands soon. It is a market that is rapidly growing, with already a broad range of providers. But CIO Phil Johnston sees room for Robot Exchange because of some features in the offering, like the Robot-as-a-Service concept and The DeVol Recorder, which substantially speeds up deployment.

Plans to create a new robotic system that could provide a sustainable, cost-effective solution to subsea maintenance and transform the offshore wind industry are taking off. Aberdeen-based offshore robotics company, HonuWorx, with support from the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and Innovate UK, announces it will deliver a robot for subsea maintenance.

Guidance Automation announces that it has become reseller of OTTO Motors’ autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) in the United Kingdom. OTTO Motors provides autonomous mobile robots for material handling inside manufacturing facilities and warehouses. With over three million hours of driving experience, OTTO operates in industrial environments.

Wrekin Council in the UK, deploying an AI Assistant, managed to cut extremely high waiting times by 50%, shifting many users to digital. A year into the AI assisted operations, new services are added to support residents and lessen strain on staff. The Council’s AI acceleration eliminated the need to employ additional headcount, which is important given the current struggle to recruit and retain staff in the sector.

“Automation is important for three very good reasons”, says Chris Argent, founder and MD of GENCFO.  After the deep insights on automation from the GENCFO live virtual summit, Chris has consolidated the importance of automation into three main reasons.