Sat.Nov 02, 2019

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How RPA, NLP and ML will create the virtual workforce of tomorrow

Tom Spencer

RPA, which stands for ‘ robotic process automation ’, is a technology that consists of software robots ( bots ) that can mimic a human worker performing operations on their laptops. RPA bots can log into applications, enter data, calculate and complete tasks and then log out, send emails, extract data from websites and excel, and generate reports. RPA software is not part of an organization’s IT infrastructure.

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A year from now…

Seth Godin Blog

Will today’s emergency even be remembered? Will that thing you’re particularly anxious about have been hardly worth the time you put into it? Better question: What could you do today that would matter a year from now?

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The Fight of The Two R’s: Robots v Redundancy

Tom Spencer

“Robots could take over twenty-million jobs by 2030” (Taylor, 2019). Economists have analysed long-term trends around the level of automation in the workplace. Currently, we live along-side 2.25 million robots worldwide. This statistic has multiplied threefold in the last two decades (Taylor, 2019). Humans invent things that society needs. This reasoning forms the basis of the saying that “necessity is the mother of invention” (Woodford, 2019).

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