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Harriet Green, general manager of Watson IoT, Customer Engagement and Education for IBM, and Guido Jouret, chief digital officer of ABB.

Digital Transformation

ABB & IBM join forces to drive industrial artificial intelligence

AI
IoT

AWAS leases a number of aircraft types, including the Boeing 747 (pictured). Image courtesy of Wikipedia.

Finance

Dubai Aerospace to acquire AWAS Aviation Capital

Robotics - The US automotive industry installed 17,500 robots in 2016, with the number of jobs in the sector rising by 260,600 during the same period – image courtesy of IFR.

Skills

Education key to reap benefits of robotics

Additive Manufacturing - Inspecting the form of a part during build

Innovation

Setting sail for a new era of additive manufacturing

Bionic Robot - The movements of the BionicCobot can be finely regulated to be either powerful and dynamic, or delicate and yielding - image courtesy of Festo.

Robotics & Automation

New bionic robot concepts inspired by nature

One of the areas AI-equipped automation controllers can help improve is predictive maintenance, vital in raising productivity – image courtesy of Omron Corporation.

Digital Transformation

Omron to release ground-breaking AI-equipped controller

IoT

Braille Printer - b.my.jet uses tactile printing technology, instead of traditional embossing, in a controlled and precise manner – image courtesy of KWSP.

Innovation

UK helps develop radically new digital Braille printer

The research from Canonical looked at the views, opinions and experiences of 361 IoT professionals regarding past, present and future IoT projects.

Digital Transformation

2017 to be year of IoT implementation

IoT

More than 75% say they plan on tying machine-to-people devices , - image courtesy of HSO.

Robotics & Automation

IIoT: get ready for ‘robolution’

The open ecosystem aims to make autonomous driving more accessible to the public, and accelerate the overall pace of innovation – image courtesy of Baidu.

Digital Transformation

Autonomous driving to go open source

Automation - Many tasks that used to cost workers time unnecessarily can now be handled quickly and simply, thanks to digital connectivity - image courtesy of Bosch.

Robotics & Automation

Automation to fast-track manufacturers’ response time