Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) inaugurated Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Lab in NIELIT Gorakhpur on 16th October 2023 during 26th All India Director’s Meet of NIELIT.
- The state-of-art RPA lab has been built under the Future Skill PRIME Project funded by MeitY with an objective to upskill/reskill manpower in emerging technology of RPA.
- This is the First-of-its-kind lab in Uttar Pradesh under FutureSkill PRIME Project, which has been established to bridge the gap between Industry and Academia.
Robotic process automation
- Robotic process automation (RPA), also known as software robotics, uses intelligent automation technologies to perform repetitive office tasks of human workers.
- It combines Application Programming Interface (API) and user interface (UI) interactions to integrate and perform repetitive tasks between enterprise and productivity applications.
- By deploying scripts which emulate human processes, RPA tools complete autonomous execution of various activities and transactions across unrelated software systems.
Differences between Robotic process automation (RPA) and Artificial intelligence (AI)
- AI combines cognitive automation, machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP), reasoning, hypothesis generation and analysis.
- RPA is process-driven, whereas AI is data-driven.
- RPA bots can only follow the processes defined by an end user, while AI bots use machine learning to recognize patterns in data, in particular unstructured data, and learn over time.
- AI is intended to simulate human intelligence, while RPA is solely for replicating human-directed tasks.
- While the use of artificial intelligence and RPA tools minimize the need for human intervention, the way in which they automate processes is different.
