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Muhammad Atif Iqbal
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What is Robocorp?

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🧠 1. What is Robocorp?

Robocorp is a platform for building, running, and managing software robots — digital workers that automate repetitive computer tasks.

Also Read Robocorp and RPA: The Complete Guide to Open-Source Robotic Process Automation Using Python

It provides:

  • Developer tools (like Robocorp Lab or VS Code extensions) for creating automation scripts.
  • A Python-based framework called Robot Framework or RPA Framework.
  • Cloud orchestration tools (Control Room) to deploy, schedule, and monitor bots.

Think of it like a modern open-source alternative to tools such as UiPath, Blue Prism, or Automation Anywhere — but built on Python and open standards, not proprietary drag-and-drop systems.

⚙️ 2. What is RPA (Robotic Process Automation)?

RPA (Robotic Process Automation) is the technology that allows software "robots" (bots) to mimic human actions on a computer to complete repetitive tasks.

For example:

  • Reading invoices from emails and entering them into an ERP system.
  • Copying data between Excel and a web app.
  • Logging into websites, downloading reports, and sending them by email.

RPA is mainly used in business process automation — finance, HR, healthcare, etc.

🤖 3. What is Robocorp RPA?

Robocorp RPA means using Robocorp’s ecosystem to build and run RPA bots.

In other words:

It’s Robocorp’s implementation of RPA — built with Python and the open-source RPA Framework libraries.

A Robocorp RPA workflow might:

  • Use Python + RPA Framework to interact with Excel, PDFs, browsers, or APIs.
  • Be packaged into a “robot” that runs locally or in Robocorp Control Room (cloud).
  • Be triggered manually, on a schedule, or by API/webhook.

🧩 Example of Robocorp RPA in action:

Let’s say you want a bot to:

  1. Log into Gmail
  2. Download invoice attachments
  3. Extract data from PDF invoices
  4. Enter data into a Google Sheet

You could write this using Robocorp’s RPA Framework:

from RPA.Email.ImapSmtp import ImapSmtp
from RPA.PDF import PDF
from RPA.Google import Sheets

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Then deploy it in Robocorp’s Control Room to run every morning — fully automated. 🚀

🆚 In short:

Concept Description Example
RPA Automating repetitive tasks using software robots Any RPA tool like UiPath
Robocorp A company/platform providing open-source RPA tools built on Python robocorp.com
Robocorp RPA RPA implemented using Robocorp’s tools and RPA Framework Building Python bots for automation

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