Robotic Process Automation and the advent of robots
Automate office jobs through RPA systems.
A report by McKinsey Global Institute called “A Future That Works: Automation, Employment, and Productivity” predicts that nearly half of work tasks will be performed by some form of a robot by the year 2055. AI agents will automate any kind of job that is repetitive on various levels.
I genuinely believe that. Not only repetitive tasks will be automated but also creative ones, as we can judge by recent breakthroughs in text understanding.
What is RPA or Robotic Process Automation?
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software is a fundamental piece of automation. RPA, at its core, is just an approach to automating business processes through the deployment of bots or AI. It dates back to the 90s, and back then, it was a purely software engineering task of breaking down a process into smaller pieces and connecting various APIs to replace humans. For example, having to copy a particular text from one document to another and then sending it through email. Though useful, it was primarily concerned with boring, repetitive tasks that could be automated by writing ‘if-then’ instructions.
Everything changed with the advent of AI. Now software is able to deal with…
