Zebra Technologies to acquire Fetch Robotics
This is the latest acquisition in Zebra’s campaign to grow in what it calls "intelligent industrial automation"
Zebra Technologies is aiming to expand its presence in the industrial robot industry. This week they announced their plans to acquire startup called Fetch Robotics for $290 million.
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Blue Prism Version 7 simplifies automation
Blue Prism has unveiled Version 7 at its World conference. With new features, the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) vendor wants to simplify the deployment of bots.
Blue Prism says it has re-architected its platform. This is to realise intelligent automation, meaning a further development of RPA.... Read more
Gartner: RPA, low-code, and AI drive growth in hyper-automation
Gartner, the research firm, estimates that the market for technologies powering hyper-automation will reach $596 billion next year, up nearly 24% from $481.6 billion in 2020. The research firm expects that growth for tech that allows organizations to quickly identify, vet, and automate processes, w... Read more
RPA vendor UiPath files for IPO
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) provider UiPath has filed for IPO. The company experienced strong growth during the corona pandemic and is expected to make a lot of money when it goes public.
What kind of market value UiPath has in mind is not known. In the registration form, the company mentio... Read more
UiPath acquires Cloud Elements to speed up API-based automation
UiPath announced on Tuesday that it acquired Cloud Elements, a venture-backed startup with a software platform for companies looking to integrate their business apps. UiPath did not disclose the terms of the deal.
UiPath received a $35 billion valuation this year after its latest funding round, ... Read more
ServiceNow to Acquire Intellibot for workflow automation
The move is a bold step into the world of robotic process automation.
ServiceNow announced this week the acquisition of Indian RPA startup Intellibot. With this deal, the company is trying to cash in on a surge in RPA popularity. Enterprises today are increasingly looking for ways to automate w... Read more
Automation Anywhere chooses Google Cloud as its partner in RPA
Automation Anywhere, the robotic process automation company, said on Sunday that it is bringing its main RPA offering to Google’s public cloud platform. This is part of a wider collaboration that will have the two companies working together on new products for customers they share.
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Automation Anywhere rebrands its platform to “Automation 360”
They claim to have "the world's only unified cloud-dative platform for intelligent automation across the enterprise".
Automation Anywhere this week announced the introduction of Automation 360. This is a new brand for the company's unified, cloud-native, AI-powered enterprise automation platform... Read more
RPA company UiPath raises $750 million at $35 billion valuation
UiPath is one of the leaders in the rapidly growing robotic process automation (RPA) niche. On Monday, it announced that it had closed on $750 million in Series F funding, with a post-money valuation of $35 billion.
The round was led by existing backers Alkeon Capital and Coatue. Other ret... Read more
‘RPA startup UiPath valued at 10.2 billion dollars after new funding’
RPA-startup UiPath raised 225 million dollars (192 million euros) in a funding round led by Alkeon Capital. This valued the RPA specialist at 10.2 billion dollars (8.7 billion euros).
According to UiPath-CEO, Daniel Dines, the new funding will be used to scale UiPath's platform and expand the co... Read more