Tag: Automation
Intelligent automation: AI, RPA will fail without strategic leadership – KPMG
Most intelligent automation projects that are underway or in the pipeline will fail, according to a new report published this morning by professional services...
Industry 4.0: Overcoming ‘pilot purgatory’ key to manufacturing success – McKinsey
Most manufacturers believe they are leading their markets in Industry 4.0 technologies – despite evidence to the contrary, according to a new report from...
PwC: AI will create more jobs than it destroys. But is...
PwC has produced an optimistic outlook for UK employment on the back of AI, robotics, and automation. Chris Middleton welcomes the report, but warns...
Fintech: Intelligent automation could add $512 billion to finance sector
A new report from Capgemini’s Digital Transformation Institute reveals that, by 2020, the financial services industry could reap up to $512 billion in new global revenues...
Asia robotics: Automation will trigger rise in slavery and abuse
Slavery and labour abuses will escalate in Southeast Asia as automation takes hold and the adoption of robot workers creates a race to the...
Investment in automated warehouses drives down Ocado profits – for now
Online retailer Ocado is facing higher than anticipated costs and further losses in the short term, as it grapples with a shifting business model...
Tesla signs agreement for China Gigafactory, doubling output
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has signed a preliminary agreement with the Shanghai government to build a Tesla factory in China. The new facility will...
Skills: AI, automation changing the core nature of work, warns McKinsey
The average worker of the future is a socially adept leader, entrepreneur, and life-long learner with transferrable technology skills, who is also happy to...
IBM partners with Box to enhance cloud storage with Watson AI
Enterprise services giant IBM and cloud collaboration and storage provider Box have announced a new partnership, in which IBM will build custom Box Skills using its...
RPA: Blue Prism announces new robotic automation skills, partnerships
• For our in-depth interview with Blue Prism co-founder and CTO, David Moss, please go here.
Blue Prism, a prime mover of the robotic process...
Robots & AI creating more jobs in Asia than they destroy
The belief that robots, automation, and AI simply displace jobs and make humans irrelevant is not borne out in Asia, reports Chris Middleton. However,...
Newsbyte: That flipping robot is back at CaliBurger!
Burger-bot Flippy is back at work, two months after its introduction brought in more customers than the robot's colleagues at CaliBurger could handle.
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