RPA stands for robotic process automation. It is a type of business process automation that involves software robots automating manual, multi-step tasks that typically take businesses a lot of time, labour, and capital to complete. RPA robots are what you might imagine. They are not physical machines, and they don’t sit at desks pushing paper. Software robots—” bots” for short—are made up of lines of code, and they live in the cloud, which means they can be easily edited, updated, and improved upon. Anytime, anywhere.