Sector report: AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly versatile. Last year was typified by progress towards a landscape in which enterprises can automate a wider variety of functions more easily, with the potential to lower costs.

The robotics sector is a good example of where versatile AI could pay dividends. In December 2020, a research paper in the academic journal Science Robotics demonstrated how a four-legged robot was able to exploit multiple precursor AI systems to effectively improvise,…