The Big Blue has acquired Bluetab to expand its hybrid cloud services

Just a week after acquiring BoxBat, tech giant IBM has made an announcement that it has acquired Bluetab to expand its portfolio in analytics, data, and cloud services. With Bluetab, the company is looking forward to advancing its AI and hybrid cloud strategy in Latin America, Europe, and North America. It is a well-known fact that organizations have now turned towards the cloud for better flexibility as they want to progress ahead of others in digital transformation. IDG, in its report, has stated that companies have expanded their average cloud budget from $1.62 million to $2.2 million today. Even though the global market is recovering slowly from the covid wave, the data services segment has continued to grow both in size and revenue.

Gartner has predicted that data services will reach a whopping $232 billion in value in the next five years. Bluetab is an enterprise software provider with offices in Spain, the U.K., and Mexico. The company specializes in offering products for hybrid multi-cloud platforms. José Luis López, Co-Founder of Bluetab, has stated that they managed to solve the data challenges of their clients with an extremely talented and experienced team.  He furthermore added that he is excited about the latest acquisition and is looking forward to work with IBM.

 

Walmart to Bring All-New Symbotic Robots to 25 Distribution Centers

The retail giant, Walmart has announced its latest robotics partnership. The c retail firm will be teaming with Massachusetts-based automation company Symbotic. Both the companies have stated thatthey will extend their relationship to bringrobots to around 25 regional Walmart distribution centers. This rollout will take several years to complete.

Both the companies have embracedautomation to reshape the retail industry. The robots will increase freight sorting, stocking, and unloading. Both Walmart and Symbotic aims to serve customers now, and in the future, by providing the right tools and training to its customers and associates so they can deliver the items customers want, when they want them, with unmatched convenience. Both firms are investingon supply chain at an unprecedented scale in to optimize that process end-to-end.

Walmart is focusing on piloting robots over the last several years, in hopes of expediting some of its processes. Besides, Walmart is also exploring ways for these machines to double up and perform in-store inventory checks and if successful it will be extended to various Walmart stores as well.Symbotic has a significantly stronger track record, in robotics sector. The company lists among its partners one of Walmart’s biggest competitors.

 

Advancement in AI Paves Way to All-New Pollination Robots

In recent times, the advancement in innovation and technology is transforming the way we live, work, and play. Especially the encroachment in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) sector is bringing in bounteous changes in the farming and agriculture sector. Farmers have relied on insects, wind, and even human workers to help pollinate their crops for a long time. AI is helping few startups develop another way to pollinate plants: robots.

Several startups are testing robots to pollinate everything from raspberries to cashews worldwide. And many robotic countries across the globe are confident in robots’ abilities and believe that they will soon deploy a fleet to pollinate several plants grown in the greenhouses. The pollination robots could give future farmers a significant advantage by increasing crop productivity compared with insects, such as bees, and the human workers who are sometimes needed to help with certain crops.

Besides, scientists are also worried that insect populations are gradually declining due to habitat loss, pesticide use, climate change, and other factors, making pollination robots even more important. The robotic revolution is being sped up deep learning, which trains artificial neural networks that mimic the human brain. This makes it easier for startups to develop robots that can quickly and accurately identify flowers for pollination.