Automation

$14 billion worth Cognizant, which was hailed as India’s 3rd largest employer of IT professionals, the company which overtook the mighty TCS to become 2nd largest Indian IT company in 2012, has activated the layoff mode, rather sharply…

One of the first lessons which a business learns via hard way is that it exists for one sole purpose: making profits. A hardcore business is different from a social service, and providing employment is not it’s main objective of…

HDFC Bank has become India’s first bank to deploy a robot inside their branch for customer service purpose. This interactive humanoid, christened as IRA or Intelligent Robotic Assistant will be able to greet customers, and then offer a…

In another yet confession by a IT biggie, it has been revealed that automation is sucking away jobs at a rapid pace, and job insecurity is looming ahead for thousands of workers. During Bengaluru chapter of Global Shapers, a body…

Amazon is planning to bring about the biggest revolution that has happened to shopping by starting its own physical grocery stores called ‘Amazon Go’. These stores are the e-commerce giant’s answer to the slow checkout and cumbersome…

Imagine a future where almost every job is done by artificial intelligence. Cars don’t have drivers. Planes don’t have pilots. Hospitals don’t have doctors. Architects have been replaced by intelligent software. Police and the military…

Decades later, there would be a case study done by management graduates on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the basic business model of IT companies. And Holmes AI from Wipro would be the benchmark to study such business…

“I can have no consideration for machinery which is meant either to enrich the few at the expense of the many, of without cause to displace the useful labour of many” - Mahatma Gandhi World Bank has reconfirmed our fears and…

91 year old Raymond, the iconic branded fabric and fashion retailer has embraced automation in a massive way, sending shock-waves across the legendary textile industry in India. In a landmark decision which will have tsunami like effect…

For the first time in India, a bank is using software robotics to automate their banking transactions; and the scale of the operations is so massive, that other banks are bound to take notice and replicate it for better efficiency.…