MIT engineers have developed a telerobotic system to help surgeons quickly and remotely treat patients experiencing a stroke or aneurysm. With a modified joystick, surgeons in one hospital may control a robotic arm at another location to safely operate on a patient during a critical window of time t

Robotic vision has come a long way, reaching a level of sophistication with applications in complex and demanding tasks, such as autonomous driving and object manipulation. However, it still struggles to identify individual objects in cluttered scenes where some objects are partially or completely h

The ‘cult of overworking’ is well and truly upon us. Anyone in accounting or finance—whether it's in the hub of central London, the throws of Wall Street, or a back office elsewhere —knows that their work is never really finish

Collaboration is vital to a DevOps ethos that promotes agile deployment. The variety of people, tools and workloads often combine for a chaotic process with no running thread. Automation can be the common denominator that binds the release cycle. Automati

Trends such as the Internet of Things (IoT) are set to exponentially increase the volume of data that businesses have to manage. Certainly IT infrastructure will need to be updated to enable and secure the myriad of new devices wishing to connect. However

As organisations embrace data at a much larger scale than ever before, these new skills and roles will enable both flexibility and focus within companies – supporting a more data-driven approach and ultimately, greater business success Data warehouse autom

International comparisons released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that British workers produce on average 30% less per hour than workers in Germany, the US and France – and around 10% less than the average Italian. This productivit

Software development is a laborious, complicated process, requiring skill, experience, creativity, a knack for detail and most important of all, time. Any tool or methodology that can consistently decrease the amount of time spent on redundant processes,

Businesses cannot afford to ignore the riches represented in their human capital: those fallible creatures with their unique ability to dare and to dream, to intuit and take risks and, above all, to recognise when they are headed towards catastrophe There

A growing number of organisations are investing in virtualised, automated data centres and private clouds. This is perhaps little surprise when you consider the lower infrastructure cost, greater agility, and better security they offer when compared to tr

Boston Consulting Group recently estimated that, by 2025, up to a quarter of jobs will be replaced by either smart software or robots. Further to this, the Bank of England has estimated that up to 15 million jobs in Britain are at risk of being lost to ro

All business leaders have dreamed of changing the course of their enterprise: breaking the cycle of primitive landscape renewals, temporary fixes, budget constraints, and traditional acceptance of “more of the same”. Sadly, despite the recogni

Within the next few months, diners at a leading restaurant in Singapore will experience something novel in its service: dishes will no longer be delivered by human waiters, but instead be flown to their tables. The ‘flying waiters’ are actuall

Automation in business is now a fact of life. Almost all companies, across all industries at some stage have or will employ some form of automation to undertake a routine task. And so they should. Algorithms and machines can predict and execute against de

Automation is the linking of disparate systems and software in such a way that they become self-acting or self-regulating. IT automation processes can improve a business’s ability to meet service level agreements (SLAs), as automated workflows can b

You only have to look through the headlines of late to see that the rise of robotics and automation is provoking mainstream debate. Will automation really steal our jobs or spell the end of manual labour as we know it? Or, will it open up a new host of ex

You only have to look through the headlines of late to see that the rise of robotics and automation is provoking mainstream debate. Will automation really steal our jobs or spell the end of manual labour as we know it? Or, will it open up a new host of ex

Automation has been widely embraced in the private sector The intention to integrate robotic process automation (RPA) software into governmental organisations has risen. 53% of public sector senior managers say their organisations have explored the use of

The fact is that technology has been a lifeline of human progress. Adoption of new technology has quite literally marked key milestones on the timeline of development, and therefore the AI and autonomics revolution should be viewed with great optimism and confidence

On education, he was particularly passionate and said there simply was not enough being done to prepare the next generation of children for a technology-driven world Last month both the UK and US governments published reports on how artificial intelligence