Automation & Robotics

With colleagues, partners and supporters, the WFP Innovation Accelerator achieved significant results in 2024 in deploying innovative solutions worldwide.

Explore how 40 UN Entities are leveraging innovative thinking, technologies and new way of working in their work.

The report presents the policy directions distilled from the UNU Macau AI Conference, a contribution of UNU to the UN Summit of the Future.

The WFP Innovation Accelerator Year in Review 2023 showcases the tangible impact of its efforts to source, support and scale innovations ending hunger and achieving the SDGs.

The report highlights the opportunities that green innovation – goods and services with smaller carbon footprints – offer developing countries to strengthen their economies and boost their technological capacities.

On the occasion of the International Day for Persons with Disabilities 2022, this webinar provided a platform to exchange good practices, discuss challenges, and identify solutions in innovation and technology that support disability-inclusive development.

The Book takes a look at the state of play of green technologies responding to some of the most critical challenges of climate change with special focus on agriculture and forestry, the water sector and cities.

The Report looks into the drivers of agricultural automation and analyses the business case for adoption of digital automation technologies in different agricultural production systems across the world.

This primer introduces the different types of UMS, describes their key components and functions, and outlines the main challenges that these systems can pose to international security.

This primer introduces the different types of UAS, describes their key components and functions, and outlines the main challenges that these systems can pose to international security.

This primer introduces the different types of UGS, describes their key components and functions, and outlines the main challenges that these systems can pose to international security.

This AI for Good webinar looks at the latest AI and robotic technologies for space science that are taking humanity into the future of interplanetary exploration missions, while promising to help improve life on Earth.

Frontier technologies to protect the environment and tackle climate change, the latest report – developed by ITU together with UNECE; UNESCO; UN Environment; UNFCCC; United Nations Global Compact; UNIDO; UN-Habitat; and UN-Women – begins by exploring what is changing on our planet, why these changes are taking place, and who is most at risk as a result.

Climate change is threatening to increase vulnerability, undermine economic gains, hinder social and economic development, and worsen access to basic services and the quality of life of citizens all over the world.

This report showcases the full range of measures that are being deployed to better understand the Earth’s system, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to the climate crisis.

The report explores the applicability and scope of digital technologies for enabling circularity in the lifecycle of electronic devices.