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 https://cnn.com, another robot for extracting news from https://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 more information, see the next section.