Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind announced a new strategic AI partnership at CES 2026, aiming to bring foundational AI intelligence to Boston Dynamics’ next-generation Atlas humanoid robots. The collaboration will integrate Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics foundation models with Boston Dynamics’ advanced robotic hardware. The partnership focuses on enabling humanoid robots to perform complex industrial tasks, with early applications targeting manufacturing, starting with the automotive sector. Joint research will begin in 2026, leveraging a new fleet of Atlas robots and conducted across both companies. Boston Dynamics brings its expertise in robot mobility, balance, and physical intelligence, while Google DeepMind contributes visual-language-action AI models capable of perception, reasoning, tool use, and safe human interaction. The goal is to create scalable, reliable humanoid robots that can

Amdocs has launched aOS, an agentic operating system designed specifically for telecom operators to accelerate generative AI adoption. Built to sit on top of existing BSS/OSS systems, aOS embeds AI-driven intelligence directly into telecom operations, enabling complex, multi-agent workflows across business environments while supporting multiple large language models (LLMs). The platform consists of three core components: Cognitive Corewith pre-built, telco-specific AI agents CES26, an agent-driven BSS/OSS suite Agentic Operations & Servicesfor deploying and managing multi-agent use cases aOS is backed by strategic partnerships with NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, and AWS, ensuring performance, flexibility, and security across cloud environments. Company & Financial Context Amdocs serves 350+ telecom operators worldwide, processing billions of daily transactions FY2025 revenue reached $4.53B The company maintains strong

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has unveiled an ambitious $8.7 billion (€8B+) digital transformation plan for 2026–2030, aimed at expanding connectivity, modernizing public services, strengthening cybersecurity, and building a skilled digital workforce. The strategy positions the DRC as an emerging regional tech and digital infrastructure hub, leveraging both public funding and global private-sector partnerships. Core Pillars of the Plan Connectivity & Infrastructure Broadband expansion to 650 communities, connecting 30 million peopleand 1,000 public institutions Deployment of solar-powered mobile towersthrough partnerships with Vodacom and Orange Target of 7 million new mobile internet users by 2029 Digital Government & Platforms Rollout of digital ID (DRC Pass), e-government portals, online tax and customs systems Launch of a National Interbank Payments Platform by

Budget cuts, new digital technologies as well as an evolving security landscape are forcing the police to review how it delivers services and what services are appropriate for the future. While today’s police leaders understand there is no “silver-bullet” solution, some forward-thinking forces are eager to embrace operational, technological, organisational and cultural change to help overcome the challenges of today and prepare for the even greater challenges of tomorrow. Today digital technologies are compressing police reaction times and have set the stage for technologies such as social media, mobile and analytics to become game-changing forces for policing in the future. While technology alone is not the answer, there is now a growing industry consensus that technology transformation must be part

Over 2023, Artificial Intelligence has become the spearhead of a number of initiatives, industries and more. Recently, the President of Africa Cyril Ramaphosa opened up several Data Centers throughout the continent, celebrating the advancement of technological industry within Africa, in the process. Now, drones monitor the growth of crops on farmland, determining optimal times for farmland to be harvested. These agricultural drones are also used to detect the spread of disease within crops and land. Surveillance systems use artificial intelligence to monitor the paths of individuals, drawing information on them as required. Artificial Intelligence is also incorporated into traffic control, with lights changing to ensure an even flow of vehicles as they go throughout cities such as Johannesburg. Artificial Intelligence

Hanwha Techwin has published its predictions for how they see the future of video surveillance heading in 2023. 1: How AI tech is used effectively In the video surveillance industry, AI has evolved to the point of reducing the frequency of false alarms and enabling accurate forensic searches based on object attributes. However, AI based on basic metadata has become commonplace and does not attract the end users to make purchases anymore. Customers now prefer reprocessed information oriented from a user’s perspective such as vehicle type statistics by period or a customer’s gender and age, rather than just merely aggregated metadata such as vehicle, gender or age data. This enables clients to find insights and make business decisions by managing

South Africa Video Surveillance Market registered a decline of -29.98% in value shipments in 2022 as compared to 2021 and a decrease of -0.65% CAGR in 2022 over a period of 2017. In Video Surveillance Market South Africa is becoming less competitive as HHI index in 2022 was 7918 while in 2017 it was 6168. Herfindahl Index measures the competitiveness of exporting countries. The range lies from 0 to 10000, where a lower index number represents a larger number of players or exporting countries in the market while a large index number means less numbers of players or countries exporting in the market. South Africa has reportedly relied more on imports to meet its growing demand in Video Surveillance Market.