Traditionally, robots have been imagined as physical robots. However, there are software bots too which mimic the work life. They are used in Robotic Process Automation (RPA). If what is being done is a process with a structure, you can use tools such as bots. These can be created in a short time to do the routine work. They take pleasure in calling the bot their own — they in fact name it. There are software tools to discover the process. It helps an organisation to learn which processes can be automated. To begin with, they identify 5-10 processes, but soon the utility of the automation and use of bots dawns on them, and they are ready to have hundreds and thousands of bots.

Bots often imitate or replace a human user’s behaviour. They can be used to automate certain tasks (they run without specific instructions from humans).

Bots can help you comply with the regulations. They can make submissions to the authorities. They can do booking for a travel company. They can operate machines for recipes in a quick response restaurants which formerly used to rely on chefs.

Some examples of bots are chatbots, web crawlers, social bots and malicious bots.

Bots have taken over mundane tasks. They do them faster and more accurately.