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A Brisbane-based team of robotics experts from the CSIRO will represent Australia and the Southern Hemisphere at the grand final of world’s leading robotics competition to be held in the United States this month.

The Australian Centre for Field Robotics has announced the appointment of Professor Ian Manchester as its new director.

If you want to terminate dust in your home, then a T-800 is definitely going overboard, but the robot Deebot T9+ is what Ecovacs says you need for an almost entirely hands-free deep cleaning experience.

Epson and its subsidiary Epson X Investment Corporation "will subscribe in the third-party allocation of sales for GITAI Inc., a startup company developing general-purpose space robots, and invest in the company through their EP-GB Investment Limited Partnership."

Billed as the largest warehouse in Australia, which you can see in the videos embedded below, spanning 200,000 square metres, over 1500 local jobs will be created while working alongside "advanced robotics".

Indian global mobility company Ola has selected robotics and automation solutions provider ABB for its mega-factory in India that will roll out the Ola electric scooter.

SoftBank is one of the world's most technologically connected companies, and for years has also had a robotics division which has now reached Australia, with its new robot being a true whiz at cleaning and arriving at just the right time to help deal with our new post-COVID reality.

Global cloud communications platform provider Twilio has appointed former Salesforce senior executive Jeremiah Brazeau as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

Optus and the Australian National University (ANU) are working together to develop a national system designed to detect bushfires early and put them out within minutes.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is set to launch new 2020 guidelines on Child Online Protection (COP), re-designed from the ground up to reflect what the ITU says are the significant shifts in the digital landscape in which children find themselves, such as the Internet of Things, connected toys, online gaming, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Three quarters of Australian executives acknowledge collaboration between humans and machines will be critical to innovation in the future – but only one-third are currently using human-centric design - according to a new technology report from management consulting and professional services firm Accenture.

UK-based robotic process automation specialist Blue Prism has completed a £100 million capital raising with the funds to be used to further strengthen and protect the company’s balance sheet in what it says is a period of uncertainty for the wider economy.

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The company behind Cozmo, Vector and the Overdrive car racing game, Anki, went bankrupt, but its assets have been purchased by Digital Dream Labs, which intends to restore the entire platform and continue development.

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With the first commercial launches of 5G networks occurring throughout this year, 2020 has been identified as the year in which 5G connectivity starts to replace costly rollouts of fibre networks in remote areas, according to Juniper Research.

The UK has been announced as the lead partner country at CEBIT 2019 which will take place from 29-31 October in Sydney.

Robotics and automation will have the biggest impact on the global mining industry in the next 15 years, according to mining executives.

Australia is lagging behind the rest of the world in robotic process and robotic desktop automation, with many organisations finding robotics hard to deploy and maintain.