KEENON Robotics, ("KEENON"), a leading global AI company focusing on indoor intelligent service robots, showcased its service and sanitation robotic solutions at the 2022 Foodservice Australia Sydney held from October 23 to 25, debuting its latest floating tray developed for the DINERBOT T8. Foodservice Australia is a leading food industry trade show for cafes, restaurants, caterers and food retailers, and a unique platform to reach and connect with existing and potential partners. More than 450 exhibitors participated in this year's event to showcase their latest food, drink and equipment. "We are excited to join Foodservice Australia to present our robotic solutions, connect, and build strong relationships with customers from the food and hospitality industry," said Derren Wong, Head of Sales, Australia, KEENON Robotics. "KEENON offers a wide range of products and automation solutions to meet various business needs, and as the food and hospitality industry is recovering and thriving, we hope our robots can help local businesses in their daily customer-facing operations and improve the efficiency and productivity of their food services." KEENON's robots are equipped with a self-developed, fully autonomous positioning and navigation system, coupled with highly sensitive perception and obstacle avoidance technologies with auto-charging function that can readily adapt in complex real-world application scenarios to provide safe, reliable and efficient services.

The mind-blowing technology at the Olympics is always impressive, but it's proving to have more than just the cool factor in Beijing. These innovations are cutting down on human contact to help keep COVID-19 at bay. The 2022 Winter Games have brought new events like the monobob and big air, but other novel concepts are functioning in the Olympic bubble to combat the spread of the coronavirus. The Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games outlined many ways robots have taken over responsibilities normally performed by humans. An anti-epidemic robot stands at the entrance to each competition area.

The market for professional service robots reached a turnover of 6.7 billion U.S. dollars worldwide (sample method) – up 12% in 2020. At the same time, turnover of new consumer service robots grew 16% to 4.4 billion U.S. dollars. This is according to World Robotics 2021 – Service Robots report, presented by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). "Service robots continued on a successful path proving the tremendous market potential worldwide," says IFR President Milton Guerry. "Sales of professional service robots rose an impressive 41% to 131,800 units in 2020."

Not so long ago it may have seemed more like a futuristic vision of the workplace – or a hospital. But the hands-free door handles, self-cleaning surfaces, antimicrobial paint, air-monitoring display tools, UV light disinfection robots, and 135 other measures at an office block in Bucharest are here to stay, say the creators behind what they are touting as one of the world's most virus-resilient workplaces, which they hope will become the new normal in office design. Entering H3, a five-storey building in a western neighbourhood of the Romanian capital, is like learning the steps to a new dance. A flick of the wrist opens the door, and a red line marks the spot at which to stand from where a thermal body camera 2 metres away scans arrivals for signs of fever. Those who are "green-lighted" can follow the tracks to the self-clean lift, step on one of two foot pads and be transported through the building, safe in the knowledge that a UV lighting disinfection system installed in the ventilation shafts is keeping them infection-free between floors. Anyone whose head flashes red on the screen, however, is whisked away by a plastic-gloved "immune steward" into a nearby quarantine room: a glass box with a panic button and its own internal ventilation system shut off from the rest of the building.

Chief Marketing Officer at Interactions, a conversational AI company, where he oversees all aspects of communications, sales and marketing. They say necessity is the mother of invention -- and the last year is Exhibit A. Amid the turbulence of the pandemic, we've seen impressive innovation across the board -- from the rise of grocery store robots to artificial intelligence-powered contact centers. But perhaps nowhere has this innovation been more pronounced than in the healthcare industry. Faced with unparalleled strain, medical facilities forged a new way of operating -- and artificial intelligence (AI) was front and center. From AI-powered thermal scanners to disinfection robots and autonomous PPE deliveries, AI played a central role in supporting medical staff, maintaining a sanitary environment and supporting efforts to reduce the spread of Covid-19.

The Covid-19 pandemic has turned our world upside down. Since last year, the pandemic has induced changes that have both positively and negatively impacted the global economy. We are witnessing how healthcare providers and frontline workers are striving consistently to make the situation better for all of us. Disinfecting spaces are really important to stop the pandemic from spreading. Doing this manually might take a lot of time and it might be dangerous considering the highly infectious nature of this virus. The accelerated adoption of technology in recent years has made the development of robotics and artificial intelligence possible.

East Japan Railway Co. unveiled Monday autonomous disinfection and mobility robots at its recently opened high-tech station in Tokyo, as it aims to introduce them by March 2025. The cleaning robot, which was developed by Nippon Signal Co. and Cyberdyne Inc., sanitizes handrails, benches and other parts of Takanawa Gateway Station by spraying disinfectant. The artificial-intelligence equipped robot, Clinabo CL02, uses three-dimensional cameras and sensors to avoid obstacles. JR East said it is considering using the robot and other disinfection robots to be introduced later to sanitize the inside of train cars in the future. In another demonstration, a robot that looks like a Yamanote Line train car served coffee in a conference room at the station. Other robots that carry luggage, food and drinks, as well as personal mobility vehicles for transporting people inside and around the station are also being operated on a trial basis as part of a project showcasing the area around the new station.

The COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate new trends in Romanian business environment, including robotics. Whether we are talking about robotic process automation (RPA) or the automation of certain production processes, the post-COVID-19 reality in Romania will be based on new business models. As an example, the pandemic has generated a lot of demand for UiPath's software robots to assist hospitals with processing medical tests. Health care is predicted to have a 36 percent automation potential. This means more than a third of health care tasks--especially managerial and back-office functions--could be automated, allowing providers to offer more direct, value-based patient care at lower costs and higher efficiency rates.

A robot being developed by Blue Ocean Robotics uses ultraviolet light to disinfect rooms. The Danish company is targeting the product first at hospitals, where there's a high danger of patients contracting infections. In a 2011 study, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said patients acquired 722,000 infections during treatment at health-care facilities in the U.S. that year and 75,000 of those patients died in the hospital. It's a problem that Blue Ocean hopes to resolve with its UV disinfection robot. The robot uses large ultraviolet lamps to kill bacteria.