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Research toward integrating robots into daily life is being developed by Greek labs and startups. Instead of static industrial robots, which have been operating for years in major industrial countries, research has shifted to so-called collaborative robots, which are mostly employed in services and operate alongside and with people.

The Finance Ministry and tech unicorn UiPath announced the signing of their first cooperation agreement, a step forward for rendering operational the Ministry's Robotic Process Automation Center of Excellence.

Microsoft will create a robotic process automation (RPA) development center in Athens, spokesman Charles Lamanna said last week in a teleconference with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis following the information technology giant's recent acquisition of Greek-owned software company Softomotive.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the recently announced buyouts of the Greek companies Softomotive and Think Silicon, by two giant global technology companies, Microsoft and Applied Material, respectively, were landmark successes for the development of advanced technology in Greece.

Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday Kathimerini's exclusive report about the US-based software giant's acquisition of Greek-owned Softomotive, in what is the biggest acquisition of a Greek tech company to date.

"I've always hated counting while dancing," French choreographer Boris Charmatz has said. "I've always preferred letting my mind wander." That's exactly what Charmatz asks of his dancers as they perform his innovative piece "Infini" for the Athens Festival.

A large-scale operation to halt tax evasion on Myconos has uncovered foreign-based card terminals in use in some stores.

The ecological crisis has revealed that our world constitutes a seamless whole, that our problems are universally shared. This means that no initiative or institution, no nation or corporation, neither science nor technology, is in the position to respond to the ecological crisis alone, without working closely together.

There's an old Greek joke about a housewife who bought two washing machines just to have somewhere sturdy to place her washboard and basin. The whole issue with the point of sale (POS) terminals is sort of like that.

Matej Potokar, General Manager, Microsoft

Matej Potokar, General Manager, Microsoft