No, CLERICAL Robotic Automation is a generation on from old technologies like screen scraping or macros.

The major DIFFERENCES are:

• ROBOTS are universal application orchestrators – any application that can be used by a person can be used by a modern robot, whether mainframe, legacy, bespoke application, web service enabled or even a closed 3rd party API hosted service.
• Robots collect procedural knowledge which over time build into a shared library that can re-used by any other robot or device (in the same way objects are built in traditional SW engineering).
• Applications are “read” by the robot, either through dedicated APIs where they exist, through the OS prior to application display, or through the screen in the context of the native application. In this last CASE the modern robot “reads” an application screen in context and in the same way a user does. As PART of the robot training it is shown how to read the application’s display much like a user is shown.

No, clerical Robotic Automation is a generation on from old technologies like screen scraping or macros.

The major differences are: