digEST #5: AI to rescue the manufacturing industry

Dear friends of e-Estonia,

Estonia is widely acclaimed for its digital innovations and flourishing startup ecosystem. Moreover, Estonia boasts the highest density of AI startups per million people and already has more than 100 AI use cases in the public sector. Despite of this, somewhat surprisingly, Estonia has witnessed limited AI adoption within its industrial sector, with just 4% of companies incorporating AI last year.?

Andrei Hirvi researched in his master's thesis what are the most significant barriers for Estonian companies in using AI, and many similarities can be drawn with obstacles in digital transformation. One of the most important is the lack of upper management support.

While the majority of enterprises in Estonia are SMEs, they often lack the expertise, resources and financial capacity to integrate complex AI solutions for their tailor-made solutions. But here's where AI & Robotics Estonia (AIRE) comes in to help with awareness raising, educating, auditing, and testing.?

In this newsletter, you will find:

• Challenges of AI usage in industry sector;
• Podcast on cybersecurity;
• Private-public collaboration in harnessing AI;
• Cloud-based?manufacturing platform.

Enjoy the read!

Podcast with Gert Auv??rt: There're no time zones in cyberspace

Our latest podcast episode, as well as October, is dedicated to cybersecurity and raising awareness of cybersecurity. And who would be a better expert to tackle this vast and complex topic than Gert Auv??rt, the head of the Cyber Security Centre at the Information System Authority.

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Unlocking AI's potential in Estonia's industrial landscape

What are the challenges of the Estonian industrial industry in implementing Artificial Intelligence? What are the main reasons that only 4% of Estonian companies used AI last year?

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Agile cooperation for harnessing AI - e-Estonia

The threshold for integrating AI into production is?too high for small and medium-sized enterprises (which make up the?majority in Estonia).?This is where AI & Robotics Estonia (AIRE) comes to help?with testing more or less crazy ideas where?scientific input is needed.

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Cut to order: How Estonian’s Fractory built a cloud-based manufacturing platform

Fractory, the Estonian cloud-based?platform that connects engineering companies with the manufacturing market, is revolutionising the?industry.?

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Twin transition in the timber industry

Estonian engineers are leading an initiative to harness the transition in digitalisation and sustainability in the timber sector by creating a digital twin of the production plant.

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Until next month!