The RPA Noise: The Long and Short of It - ReadWrite

The topic of robots and automation was initially met with hysteria not so long ago. We had reports of robots stealing human jobs and other misinformation that was making the rounds. Cut to the present day, some of the fear remains -- but the technology is here -- in different forms or avatars (spelled bots, RPA, chatbots). Here is the long and short of the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) noise. RPA has not created a meteoric crater yet, but what has it really been up to? Much is being said about bots and all the things it can impact. There is a fundamental difference between actual bots and robotic process automation.