AMP installed its first AI-guided robotics systems in the UK and Ireland with Recyco in September 2021 and has since deployed more recycling solutions throughout Europe, including at FCC Medio Ambiente/Environment in Spain. "As we continue to scale our business and innovate new ways to improve the economics of recycling, we're committed to the European market and our growing customer base there. Our efforts to modernise Europe's recycling infrastructure are important to our global investors, and critical to realising our vision of a world without waste," said Matanya Horowitz, founder and CEO of AMP Robotics. AMP has grown its team to include sales support, training, service, and marketing, in addition to direct sales staff focused on serving Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, and Switzerland, along with the UK and Ireland. Our AI platform, AMP Neuron, continues to achieve breakthroughs in data accuracy and classification of different polymers, form factors, and other packaging types, which is helping our customers take a more data-driven approach to increasing recovery, lowering costs, and optimising operations," said Gary Ashburner, general manager, Europe, for AMP Robotics.

Founded in 2015, 6 River Systems is based in Massachusetts, USA, and is owned by Shopify. Simon Jones, Head of UK and Ireland at 6 River Systems, speaks to Warehouse & Logistics News. What are your best-known products/solutions/services? Our best-known product is our collaborative picking robot Chuck. Chuck uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to help warehouse associates work faster while making their jobs less physically demanding.

Although artificial intelligence (AI) has already made its way into our daily lives, one of the biggest problems with this emerging technology is that few people really understand how it works or how it could affect their future. To help businesses and consumers alike better understand AI, Samsung has launched a new initiative called FAIR Future with the aim of involving everyone in AI by making it easier to understand. TechRadar Pro spoke with Samsung's director of connected living (AI & IoT) for the UK and Ireland, Teg Dosanjh who provided further insight on the firm's new report and explained how businesses can take an ethical approach to implementing AI. First, we found people aren't quite as concerned about AI overlords as we expected. In fact, around half of people believe that AI will be a force for good in society, and just a fifth believe it is dangerous.

Microsoft believes that every business will be an AI business in the next five years but there are concerns that people don't fully understand the technology and will be left behind in the AI revolution. Ahead of Future Decoded, the tech giant's annual conference at the ExCel Centre in London, it released a new report, named Accelerating Competitive Advantage with AI, covering how businesses across the UK are using the technology. The report shows that there is more awareness and adoption of AI overall among businesses, with 56 per cent of businesses adopting AI. However, less than a quarter of these organisations (24 per cent) have an AI strategy and 96 per cent of employees surveyed reporting that their bosses are adding AI without consulting them on the technology. This is fuelling anxiety around the technology, as well as concerns over job security.

Playing music, listening to directions or ordering a takeaway while you commute home from work could soon be a reality thanks to a new'smart bike'. The Cybic Legend, being unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next week, comes equipped with Amazon's Alexa digital assistant. The bike, which will be launched alongside an electric version, features a control mounted on the handlebars that lets riders access its internet connected features. That includes performance data, personalised light settings, theft tracking, a security lock, an alarm and a music player. Playing music, listening to directions or ordering a takeaway while you commute home from work could soon be a reality thanks to a new'smart bike'.

Google is giving British journalists over €700,000 to help them incorporate artificial intelligence into their work. Google awarded the grant to The Press Association (PA), the national news agency for the UK and Ireland, and Urbs Media, a data driven news startup. It's one of the largest handed out by Google's €150 million Digital News Initiative (DNI) Innovation Fund. Peter Clifton, editor-in-chief of PA, explained that humans would still be involved in producing AI-assisted stories. "Skilled human journalists will still be vital in the process, but RADAR allows us to harness artificial intelligence to scale up to a volume of local stories that would be impossible to provide manually," Clifton said in a statement.

Robots will help a national news agency to create up to 30,000 local news stories a month, with the help of human journalists and funded by a Google grant. The Press Association has won a €706,000 (£621,000) grant to run a news service with computers writing localised news stories. The national news agency, which supplies copy to news outlets in the UK and Ireland, has teamed up with data-driven news start-up Urbs Media for the project, which aims to create "a stream of compelling local stories for hundreds of media outlets". It won one of the largest grants to date from Google's Digital News Initiative (DNI), which is aimed at supporting innovation in European digital journalism. PA and Urbs Media will set up Radar – Reporters And Data And Robots – to produce thousands of stories each month.