AI-Powered Meeting Summaries & Action Items: Otter.ai, Zoom AI Companion, and Microsoft Teams Copilot transcribe meetings and generate summaries, with Microsoft data showing heavy users saving about 8 hours per month and typical users saving 3–5 hours per week. Automated Email Drafting & Responses: Gabrielle, a freelance branding consultant, uses ChatGPT in Gmail to draft…
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Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for RPA, released in late June 2025, again names Automation Anywhere, Microsoft, SS&C Blue Prism, and UiPath as Leaders for the seventh consecutive year. Gartner warned about ‘agent washing’ and projected that by 2027 more than 40% of agentic AI projects could be canceled due to unclear ROI. UiPath announced a…
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Hexagon unveiled its first industrial humanoid, AEON, a dual-locomotion robot, at the Hexagon LIVE Global event in 2025 to tackle labor shortages in manufacturing and logistics. Wandercraft introduced the Calvin humanoid robot as part of a Renault Group partnership, with Renault taking a minority stake and investing €50 million to co-develop Calvin for Renault factories.…
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In 2024 the value of new industrial robot installations reached $16.5 billion, with over 4.28 million robots operating in factories worldwide. Asia accounted for 70% of new robot installations in 2023, with China alone representing 51% of 2023 installations. In 2025 robotics is being transformed by AI, with analytical AI, Physical AI simulators like NVIDIA’s…
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Amazon Robotics (formerly Kiva Systems) operates over 500,000 mobile robots in its fulfillment centers to power rapid order fulfillment. DJI remains the world’s largest drone manufacturer, commanding over 70% of the global market with flagship Phantom and Mavic series. SoftBank Robotics’ Pepper humanoid, launched in 2014, was the world’s first full-scale consumer-facing humanoid robot and…
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