May 23, 2024

Concierge services built on artificial intelligence have the potential to improve how hotels and other service businesses interact with customers, a new paper suggests. In the first work to introduce the concept, researchers have outlined the role an AI concierge, a technologically advanced assistant, may play in various areas of the service sector as well as the different forms such a helper might embody. Their paper envisions a virtual caretaker that, by combining natural language

Listen to this article Universal Robots, along with other cobot manufacturers, cobots can now use SRCI, a standard interface between PLCs and robots. | Source: Universal Robots Just before Hanover Messe, Siemens announced its cooperation with two collaborative robot vendors, UR and JAKA. This will enable Siemens PLCs to control robots from UR and JAKA through the TIA Portal using the ‘Standard Robot Command Interface (SRCI)’ function. Prior to this, Siemens was already working in

Listen to this article The Volvo VNL truck includes features for safety, integration, and commercial scale. | Source: Volvo Autonomous Solutions Volvo Autonomous Solutions this week unveiled its first-ever production-ready autonomous truck. The company debuted the vehicle at the ACT Expo in Las Vegas. The VNS Autonomous truck brings together Volvo’s commercial vehicle expertise with autonomous driving technology from Aurora Innovation Inc., it said. “We are at the forefront of a new way to transport

Listen to this article The full Stereotaxis lab with the Genesis RMN system. Source: Stereotaxis Stereotaxis announced that a hospital in Italy established the first robotic cardiac heart program in the region. Hospital Santa Maria della Pietà, in Nola in the Metropolitan City of Naples, established the program. Now, doctors there can treat patients with heart rhythm disorders using robotic ablation procedures. The hospital becomes the first in Italy to adopt the Stereotaxis Genesis robotic