Automation

South Korea opens the door for robots to roam among pedestrians

They'll have a top speed of 15km/h and need insurance before they roll

Personal Tech17 Nov 2023 | 27

Woo-hoo, UK ahead of Europe in this at least – enterprise IT automation

But plenty of tech folk wish management would just leave them alone

CxO07 Nov 2023 | 12

Let's give these quadruped robot dogs next-gen XM7 rifles, says US Army

Black Mirror? Never heard of it

Bootnotes30 Aug 2023 | 34

LLMs appear to reason by analogy, a cornerstone of human thinking

How they do it remains a mystery, say boffins in research paper

AI + ML31 Jul 2023 | 27

Chipotle welcomes you to the age of robot guacamole

Avocado prep time could be cut in half, but it still won't change the price

Bootnotes13 Jul 2023 | 15

Watchdog calls for automatic braking to be standard in cars

When's the perfect time for a mandate? When everyone's already doing it

Personal Tech01 Jun 2023 | 100

OpenAI's Sam Altman rattles tin for crypto startup that will support bot-replaced workers

Idea is to scan irises to disburse universal basic income just for being human

Offbeat16 May 2023 | 20

Rise of the machines is slower than expected says World Economic Forum

Don't get too comfortable, machines are doing more thinking

AI + ML03 May 2023 | 27

Waymo robo taxis rack up a million miles without killing anyone

It works! Now let's cut staff by 8%

AI + ML02 Mar 2023 | 13

Surely you can't be serious: Airbus close to landing fully automated passenger jets

DragonFly designed to land and taxi when the pilot is incapacitated, or just busy

AI + ML13 Jan 2023 | 155

Aviation regulators push for more automation so flights can be run by a single pilot

This is despite a wealth of evidence showing the value of having two in the cockpit

Personal Tech21 Nov 2022 | 164

People still seem to think their fancy cars are fully self-driving

This is despite a history of assistive software being involved in crashes

AI + ML11 Oct 2022 | 123

Teams of aerial drones might one day help to build houses

Wasp-like technique could be used to 3D-print structures in that remote place you plan to retire in

Science23 Sep 2022 | 19

Software fees to make up 10% of John Deere's revenues by 2030

1.5 million machines and half a billion acres of land connected to the John Deere Operations Center within a matter of years

Software12 Sep 2022 | 88

Amazon to buy Roomba maker iRobot for $1.7b

Updated Bezos empire continues to clean up, but did it pick the proper postulates?

Personal Tech05 Aug 2022 | 65

Automation outfit ABB sees supply chain woes easing

How can you have these worries as a software business? Just ask Cisco

Software21 Jul 2022 |

IBM CEO explains why he offloaded Watson Health: Not enough domain expertise

And not enough customers, Shirley?

AI + ML08 Jun 2022 | 14

TomTom to chop 10% of workforce, blames automation tech

Improvements in mapmaking platform to cost 500 employees their future at geolocation tech provider

Applications01 Jun 2022 | 40

Fully automated AI networks less than 5 years away, reckons Juniper CEO

You robot kids, get off my LAN

AI + ML14 May 2022 | 20

Worried about being replaced by a robot? Become a physicist

Scientists develop algorithm that decides if your job can just be an algorithm

Science30 Apr 2022 | 56

Insteon's vanishing act explained: Smart home biz insolvent, sells off assets

Acknowledgement of shutdown almost a week after backend powered off

Edge + IoT22 Apr 2022 | 60

Qlik moves to boost position in crowded automation space during IPO year

Interview Initial boom in data vizualization, but CEO Mike Capone says it needs to 'play nice' to win in new segment

Software13 Apr 2022 | 3

California suggests taking aim at AI-powered hiring software

Automated HR in the cross-hairs over discrimination law

AI + ML07 Apr 2022 | 16

Boston Dynamics' latest robot is a warehouse workhorse

When does this thing get to unionize?

Science02 Apr 2022 | 37

Puppet publishes DevOps salaries report

Gender pay gap narrows, but the US remains top of pay-packet pops

Devops30 Mar 2022 |

Celonis buys German process miner with Power BI links in $100m deal

Move follows Microsoft's own tools to find out how things are really done

Applications29 Mar 2022 | 2

ServiceNow jumps into RPA with imminent 'San Diego' release

Will bring bots to workflow users, perhaps not with the same precision RPA specialists muster

Software24 Mar 2022 | 1

Oracle sees automation opportunity in healthcare following pandemic

Doctor Ellison says big wins in the sector influenced decision to buy health records outfit Cerner

Databases11 Mar 2022 | 5

Google's DeepMind says its AI coding bot is 'competitive' with humans

Gulp! Code that codes displays some critical thinking capabilities

AI + ML03 Feb 2022 | 82

Baidu's AI predictions for 2022: Autonomous driving! Quantum computing! Space! Human-machine symbiosis!

Did a computer program tell them to write this?

AI + ML25 Jan 2022 | 5

The robots are coming! 12 million jobs lost to automation in Europe by 2040 – analyst

Ageing populations, competition, cost-cutting and COVID-19 driving increased adoption

Software20 Jan 2022 | 81

What will the factory of the future look like? Let's start with Intel, Red Hat, and 5G

Analysis Machine-to-machine communications, AI, DevOps tech all coming together

AI + ML03 Nov 2021 | 16

When AI and automation come to work you stress less – but hate your job more

It's better to work for the Man than the Machine

AI + ML29 Oct 2021 | 5

Emerson merges software units with 'industrial AI' for oilfields firm AspenTech in $11bn deal

Yes the same mega-org at centre of Facebook data centre trade secrets spat

Software12 Oct 2021 |

Taxpayers foot the bill: HMRC signs up Cognizant for £150m low-code, automation project

Brit tax collection agency's IT estate contains 'significant risk'

Software13 Aug 2021 | 2

India’s IT lobby lashes forecast of automation-induced jobs bloodbath

NASSCOM says industry has already weathered the worst automation has to offer, but may use different definitions of where jobs are at risk

Software21 Jun 2021 | 3

There's nothing AI and automation can't solve – except bias and inequality in the workplace, says report

RoTM Nope, it just makes them worse

AI + ML15 Dec 2020 | 12

Automation software slinger SaltStack warns of stop-watching-the-election-and-patch-now bugs

Fixes look to have landed in GitHub well ahead of disclosure

Security04 Nov 2020 |

Amazon-like megacorps dominating various online sectors could become norm for pandemic-stricken planet

Certain business models work better than others when most people avoid human contact

SaaS12 Oct 2020 | 9

Bot herder of a different kind: Open sourcer Camunda buffs up RPA platform in an overcrowded market

Someone's got to wrangle all the automation now Microsoft and pals have joined the act

Science09 Oct 2020 | 4

With the robotic process automation market taking off, it wouldn't be like Microsoft to not grab a slice of the action

Ignite Redmond to take baby steps on desktop while established vendors turn gaze to enterprise deployments

Software23 Sep 2020 | 1

DevOps pilgrim Progress forks out $220m for automation crew Chef

It's our fourth chapter, says CEO Crist

Devops08 Sep 2020 | 4

AWS adds database on-ramp to its Arm-powered instances

Automation tool RDS can now push MySQL and PostgreSQL onto Arm, MariaDB coming soon

Databases03 Aug 2020 |

Pandemic has a silver lining for Brit automation merchant Blue Prism: Revenue up 70% for first half of fiscal 2020

Makes sense while enterprises wrestle with new ways of working

Science24 Jun 2020 |

More automation to suddenly look like a jolly good idea as businesses struggle through coronavirus crisis, say analysts

I, for one, welcome our robot replacements... Wait, no I don't

Science13 May 2020 | 28

Non-human Microsoft Office users get their own special licences

Automated operators can pay up like anyone – or anything – else

Software07 May 2020 | 23

Nutanix issues solid Q3 preview but also yanks mid-term targets

'A new company will emerge from this pandemic' says CEO

On-Prem06 May 2020 | 2

Process miner Celonis pushes out application tools to tighten up how they're used in anger

Better look into how users don't use software the way biz thinks they do

Software30 Apr 2020 | 4

Salt peppered with holes? Automation tool vulnerable to auth bypass: Patch now

'The impact is full remote command execution as root on both master and all minions'

Security30 Apr 2020 | 5

Masters of Puppet say: There's no magical one-size-fits-all answer to doing DevOpsery

Puppetize PDX 2019 Bigwigs on containers, consulting and the path ahead

Devops16 Oct 2019 | 14

If Syria pioneered grain processing by watermill in 350BC, the UK in 2019 can do better... right?

Wrong: Biz committee bemoans lack of automation strategy

Science18 Sep 2019 | 46

Complex automation won't make fleshbags obsolete, not when the end result is this dumb

Column We're messy, expensive, lazy, difficult – and entirely necessary

AI + ML25 Apr 2019 | 81

Software engineer fired, shut out of office for three weeks by machine

HAL 9000 is here – and it's plugged into your HR system

Software22 Jun 2018 | 58

Automation won’t take your job until the next recession threatens it

Economics boffin says we’re just playing with AI now and the payoff is years away

Science07 Jun 2018 | 26

Is automation going to put you out of a job? Probably not, but…

Research You've got to use your time much more wisely if you want to stay employed

Devops25 Apr 2018 |

Don’t fight automation software for control, just turn it off. FAST

Report into fatal air accident shows machines can't be trusted to negotiate a crisis

Science17 Apr 2018 | 118