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How Smart Robots Work: AI Perception, Planning & Execution Explained

Imagine a future where machines not only perform physical tasks but also learn, adapt, and make intelligent decisions in dynamic environments. This future is rapidly becoming a reality with the advent of smart robots, poised to revolutionize industries from manufacturing to healthcare. In this article, we'll delve into smart robots: what makes these intelligent machines 'smart', how they perform tasks, and how they are reshaping the operational landscape.

Unify Observability, Surface Business Impact, and Solve Problems Using AI Agents with Latest Splunk Observability Innovations

In September at.conf25, we announced how Splunk is shaping the future of digital resilience in the age of AI. Agentic AI is rewriting what it takes to build a leading observability practice. As vibe coding gains steam, applications will be built with less human involvement. At the same time, the rise of AI agents demands specialized telemetry to ensure models are performing as intended—aligned to their business purpose and cost.

Splunk Advances the OpenTelemetry Project with Its Latest Donation, the OpenTelemetry Injector

Splunk is very excited to be sponsoring Kubecon North America once again, kicking off this week in Atlanta, GA. As many know, Splunk is one of the top contributors to the OpenTelemetry project. We’re happy to have sent many of the Splunkers who serve as project maintainers and contributors to lead SIG meetings and engage with the greater community in the OpenTelemetry Observatory, sponsored by Splunk.

Choosing the Right Load Balancing Approach for Your Network: Static, Dynamic, & Advanced Techniques

Load Balancing is the process of distributing network traffic among multiple server resources. The objective of load balancing is to optimize certain network operations. Ensuring that a workload is spread evenly among the computing resources, this “balanced load” improves application responsiveness and accommodates unexpected traffic spikes — all without compromising application performance. Let’s take a deeper look at this important networking function.

Why Simplicity Beats Sprawl in Modern IT

In enterprise boardrooms today, what was once an arms race to adopt more tools and chase every new capability has now crystallized into a single mandate, “Make the platform work harder without spending more.” The industry has reached a saturation point. The buyers who once greenlit expansions now demand efficiency. And the ones who built the stack? They’re rethinking it entirely. It’s no wonder platformization is taking off.

AWS & Splunk: Accelerating Innovation Through Partnership

Discover how AWS and Splunk are pushing the boundaries of innovation to empower your security, observability, and cloud transformation journey. This video highlights our joint commitment to driving digital resilience through unified visibility, faster threat detection, and seamless integration across AWS services.

Tech Talk - Leveraging Automated Threat Analysis Across the Splunk Ecosystem

Find out how Splunk Attack Analyzer can help you quickly and efficiently investigate potential malware and phishing incidents by automatically tracking each stage of complex attack chains and expediting your response efforts. Hear directly from Product Manager Aditya Raj as he demonstrates how to combine Splunk Attack Analyzer with Splunk Enterprise Security and Splunk SOAR for even greater threat detection and response power.

Introducing the Splunk Technology Add-on for Ollama: Illuminating Shadow AI Deployments

Without strong visibility and governance, local LLMs risk replicating the fragmented, unsupervised sprawl once seen in shadow IT, complicating security postures and making it difficult for organizations to ensure proper oversight and compliance as these powerful AI tools become embedded in daily workflows. To address this challenge, The Splunk Threat Research Team has released the Splunk Technology Add-on for Ollama that provides comprehensive monitoring and observability capabilities specifically designed for local LLM deployments.

Tech Talk - Observability Unlocked: Kubernetes Monitoring with Splunk Observability Cloud

In this Tech Talk, discover how they’re leveraging Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring (IM) to supercharge their Kubernetes operations, detect issues within minutes, and resolve them 90% faster — all while optimizing and scaling like pros.