Since the UK announced that it will be leaving the EU in March 2019, there have been growing concerns of a shortage of labour as a result. With fears mounting, could robotics bridge this gap? In the time since the referendum results were announced, figures show that the UK unemployment rate is at its lowest;…
Take a look at the facts below for an overview of the dynamic growth in the global Automation and Robotics industry over the past few years. As of 2016, Germany’s manufacturing industry was the fifth largest market in the world with an average of 301 robots per 10,000 employees. The USA installed 80,000…
Today’s mobile, cloud, and hybrid IT architectures require a new kind of IT service. One that’s more automated, proactive, and treats a disparate, multi-vendor environment as an integrated whole. While businesses are focused on digital transformation to deliver greater efficiency and higher profits, IT teams themselves are falling behind the curve according to a new report.…
Using components readily available from the internet, more and more small-scale creators are producing sophisticated robotics equipment. This easier access to market enables start-ups to bring more niche and more creative functionalities to the public, in turn making the robotics field more diverse and competitive. This brings with it difficulties in regulation. Of course, internationally-agreed…
Work on Boeing’s largest wing, the wing for its new 777X Dreamliner aircraft, is well underway with some prototype parts already completed. Nearly 130 mechanics are working on these first prototype parts. A tool engineer for the 777x has said “it’s pretty incredible”, having seen that the tools and equipment that only existed on screens…
A New York start-up aims to remove the stress from arranging meetings, by creating a virtual assistant whose sole purpose is to organise meetings. x.ai created Amy Ingram and Andrew Ingram (initials of AI) to read and interpret emails between two people, then generate a response that books a meeting at a time and place to…
Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, has announced a Gigafactory 2 to be located in Europe. This announcement comes before the completion of the first Gigafactory and after last week’s news that Tesla are looking to acquire Grohmann Engineering in Germany. Inside Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada – image courtesy of insideevs.com Musk stated: “There’s no question that long-term Tesla will…
Tesla Motors expects to create over 1,000 advanced engineering and skilled technician jobs in Germany in the next two years. Tesla Motors has increased its output target to 500,000 cars per year by 2018. As a result, the automotive manufacturer is looking to expand its operation. The first step in this process is in acquiring…
A robotic strategic partnership between Tech-Link and Blue Ocean Robotics aims to further the war on Hospital-Acquired Infections. The aim of the partnership is to improve the quality of healthcare services, which will be partially achieved via a UV-disinfection robot solution. The director of Singapore company Tech-Link healthcare systems, Tan Hock Seng, says: “Tech-Link looks…
Industrial robot giant Fanuc announced a working partnership with Silicon Valley chipmaker Nvidia, who specialize in artificial intelligence, to enable Fanuc robots to learn as they work. The graphics processing units that Nvidia makes, which enable high-speed parallel computation, are especially well suited to deep learning. Fanuc will implement the Nvidia processors in a central…