Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Automation company Beckhoff UK has announced its new concept for robotics applications with ATRO (Automation Technology for Robotics). With its multi-axis capabilities and modular design, ATRO’s kinematics can be assembled flexibly and offers an internal media feed for data, power and fluids, implemented in such a way that all axes can rotate endlessly.

Research Triangle Park, United States. 1 June 2022 – Jaggaer, the global provider in autonomous commerce, announced a strategic relationship with Billtrust, a B2B accounts receivable automation provider. Suppliers can now reduce manual work and lower administration cost by automating the process of sending out invoices within or outside of Jaggaer’s network of suppliers.

Zurich, Switzerland. 11 May, 2022 – ABB is adding two new robot families to its portfolio of large robots for complex manufacturing applications. Delivering enhanced speed, accuracy, flexibility, and a more robust design including integrated process cabling, ABB’s IRB 5710 and 5720 robots deliver increased productivity and enhanced performance with higher uptime for applications including electric vehicle (EV) manufacture, foundry, forging, rubber, plastics, and metal fabrication.   

Miami, Florida, USA. 1st February , 2022 – UltimateSuite, the task mining company, announced that it has added Robotic Process mining to its platform to enhance Task Discovery. The new addition helps its customers to automatically identify repetitive tasks which can be automated or streamlined to maximise efficiency and increase business return on investment.

Automation Anywhere, a global provider of robotic process automation (RPA), announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire cloud provider FortressIQ, a process discovery and mining company based in San Francisco.

London, UK. 26 October 2021 – Appian announced that Vontobel, a globally operating financial expert with Swiss roots, is deploying Appian Robotic Process Automation (RPA) across the company to accelerate its business transformation and automation initiatives. Vontobel began using the Appian Low-Code Platform in 2016 to streamline operational business processes from front-line customer service to back-office governance, risk, and compliance.

Reading, UK. 26^th October 2021 – Toca, provider of the no code apps and automation fabric, is announcing £2m (€2.38m) of funding from private investors an extension to the £1.4m (€1.66m) raised since 2018. The innovative Toca fabric disrupts the low code app development and traditional RPA markets, bringing these capabilities together into a single no code platform that works across any infrastructure and system.

Laserfiche announced the availability of Laserfiche Cloud in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. The SaaS provider of intelligent content management and business process automation’s cloud offering delivers an innovative and trusted system for securely managing content and automating business processes across the enterprise.

The Franco-American start-up Fuzzy Logic announces a €2.5 million seed round of financing from two European DeepTech funds: 42CAP, an industry-specialised German fund based in Munich, and Karista (via the Paris Region Venture Fund), an early-stage VC firm based in Paris.

The National Robotarium, hosted by Heriot-Watt University, is pioneering intelligent sensing and tele-presence robotic technology to allow health practitioners to remotely assess a person’s physical and cognitive health from anywhere in the world.

Appian announced the latest version of the Appian Low-Code Automation Platform. The new release makes it faster and more efficient to build enterprise applications through major enhancements in low-code data, complete automation functionality, user interface (UI) creation, and application deployment.

UK manufacturers are expressing growing interest in the potential of robotic automation to help address impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and protect against future workforce shortages.

The current pandemic presents a major challenge for many organisations, especially when it comes to remaining competitive in an uncertain economic situation. In order to overcome the difficulties, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is adopted by many businesses to boost their productivity, improve service and product quality and increase customer satisfaction.

Gavin Mee, managing director for Northern Europe at enterprise automation firm UiPath, reveals that software robots can support green solutions and, when implemented at scale, could help to significantly reduce a business’ carbon footprint while boosting its efficiency.

The year is 2021. There’s been an overnight shift to digital operations, but the pressure to stay competitive, eliminating bottlenecks, and ensuring stability still remain as business priorities.

Richard Farrell, Netcall’s chief innovation officer, recently hosted a webinar featuring guest speaker Dr Bernhard Schaffrik, principal analyst at Forrester, exploring ‘Transformative Trends for Automation Software’. following Forrester’s recently completed and published evaluation of top RPA vendors ‘The Forrester Wave: Robotic Process Automation, Q1 2021’ – which unearthed the challenges, and opportunities, that companies of all maturities are facing when looking to automate.

Guidance Automation, a provider of guidance, navigation and control technologies,  announces the findings of its latest research regarding the growth of the intralogistics automation sector.

Use of robotic process automation (RPA) is increasing within industries, with the technology now commonly taking advantage of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to learn lists of actions to ultimately automate tasks.

The use of RPA (Robotic Process Automation) is said to have many advantages over traditional workflows in the fintech industry. However, there are challenges in the implementation of truly integrated systems which could bring business to the next level.

Over the past few decades, we have already started to witness the automation evolution take place, with the global market size of industrial robotics forecast to increase to $18.62 billion (€15.28 billion) by 2025.

Appian unveiled the latest version of the Appian Low-code Automation Platform. The new release expands the boundaries of the low-code industry with the introduction of low-code data, a new code-free approach to unifying enterprise data.

Construction has started on a research facility for robotics and artificial intelligence, which will be the advanced of its type in the UK.

New research published by SnapLogic reveals that 78% of businesses plan to increase their spending on automation initiatives in the next 12 months.

The COVID-19 pandemic has driven more German enterprises to adopt intelligent automation technologies such as robotic process automation and artificial intelligence, according to a new report published by Information Services Group (ISG), a global technology research and advisory firm.

OpenBots, the open source RPA software company, has been introducing new tools, features, and capabilities to the RPA market regularly since their launch in November of 2020.

Software AG has entered into a collaboration agreement with Automation Anywhere, which will make scalable automation achievable for more businesses. Software AG’s ARIS platform will bookend Automation Anywhere RPA with process mining and process management. This will improve the discovery of automation opportunities and then management of automated processes.

The robotics and automation industry continues to accelerate, and has undertaken a number of changes over the past 12 months due to COVID-19 acting as a catalyst for business digital transformation, says Paul Rivers, CEO, Guidance Automation.