Robots

The most important concept in Design Studio is a robot. A robot is a program designed to accomplish some task involving a data source, usually a web site or other robot, but it could also be an Excel document or a database. Typically, one robot is written per task per data source. For example, you would create one robot for extracting news from http://cnn.com, another robot for extracting news from http://yahoo.com and yet another robot for extracting product information from an online product catalog.

Basically, a robot can be programmed to do (automatically) everything you can do in a browser, and to extract data from a database or an Excel document to combine with data stored in a database or file.

In Kofax RPA, we distinguish between two types of robots: web automation robots (usually referred to as just "robots") and Desktop Automation robots. For information on the latter , see the chapter Desktop Automation.

Important To allow execution for a robot or switch the execution right from one robot to another, you need to open the tab with the robot and click Prepare Execution on the toolbar. To ensure correct execution, it is not possible to execute multiple robots at the same time.

Also, it is not possible to execute in Design and Debug modes at the same time.