Browsing: Automation

The recent crash of a Tesla car in the United States, in which two people died, has reignited debate about…

IT giant IBM has acquired myInvenio, an Italian startup that builds and operates process mining software. myInvenio provides customers with…

Mercedes-Benz and Siemens plan to cooperate on advancing digitalization and automation in the automotive industry. The carmaker aims to digitize…

The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to a unique set of challenges within the mining industry and the rest of…

The ultimate aim of AI, even narrow AI which handles very specific tasks, is to outdo and perfect every human cognitive function.

We enter 2021 in a very different place from where we were at the start of 2020. For CIOs, the…

by Alex Mohubetswane Mashilo (PhD) Technology is a product of human labour. The working class and society can, therefore, shape…

In South Africa, manufacturers experience significant challenges. From the stuttering economy to the lack of skills development, there are obstacles…

Over the past forty years, the mobile industry has introduced a new generation of technology every decade. The enhanced capabilities…

Cisco was chosen as the preferred vendor by Liquid Telecom South Africa to replace its core network. The technological advancement…

Slowly robots, artificial intelligence, and automation have started to take over in some industries. They have begun to take over…

Despite the various economic and structural challenges that South Africa currently faces, there are many market opportunities and reasons to…

When Doc, Marty and Jennifer travelled to 2015 in 1989’s Back to the Future II, they saw lots of things…

by Richard Holden There has already been a fair number of jobs lost to automation over recent decades – from…

Consumers expect an array of beneficial services from connected technology interacting with our senses of sight, sound, taste, smell and…

The Vision EQS creates a connection between rationality and emotion. It presents the thrilling design of future EQ models from…

Digitisation and automation could result in a net gain of up to 1.2 million jobs in South Africa by 2030,…

by Wim Naudé Most discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) are characterised by hyperbole and hysteria. Though some of the world’s…

by Nicholas Diakopoulos Much as robots have transformed entire swaths of the manufacturing economy, artificial intelligence and automation are now…

South Africa’s Pick n Pay initiated a voluntary severance package (VSP) in April to remove 10% of roles and functions…

By Keith Fenner, vice-president, Sage Enterprise Africa & Middle East Machine learning, which used to be something only computer scientists…

By Staff Writer Increasingly empowered customers and business users, external services, new methodologies, automation, and cognitive technologies will result in…

When Chris Mulder, head of collections at The Unlimited, wanted to automate a simple process, he hit a wall. IT’s…

As artificial intelligence (AI) improves at an exponential rate, robots are performing a wide range of tasks once thought to…

German carmaker Audi aims to gain a lead over its rivals, BMW, Ford and Telsa in bringing self-driving cars to…