Entries are now being accepted for the Automate UK Awards, the annual recognition event celebrating excellence in automation, robotics and industrial vision. The organisation also announced that comedian Frank Skinner and soul singer Heather Small will perform at the presentation. The deadline for entry submissions is 17:00 on 7 August. Winners will be announced at a gala dinner on the second evening of the UK’s biggest processing and packaging machinery, robotics and industrial vision exhibition, PPMA, which takes place at the NEC, Birmingham, from 22-24 September.

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