Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a technology for automating repetitive routines consisting of sequences of user interactions with one or more applications. In order to fully exploit the opportunities opened by RPA, companies need to discover which specific routines may be automated, and how. In this setting, this paper addresses the problem of analyzing User Interaction (UI) logs in order to discover routines where a user transfers data from one spreadsheet or (Web) form to another. The paper maps this problem to that of discovering data transformations by example - a problem for which several techniques are available. The paper shows that a naive application of a state-of-the-art technique for data transformation discovery is computationally inefficient. Accordingly, the paper proposes two optimizations that take advantage of the information in the UI log and the fact that data transfers across applications typically involve copying alphabetic and numeric tokens separately. The proposed approach and its optimizations are evaluated using UI logs that replicate a real-life repetitive data transfer routine.
NIMS-OS: An automation software to implement a closed loop between artificial intelligence and robotic experiments in materials science
Center for Basic Research on Materials（材料基础研究中心）；National Institute for Materials Science（国家材料科学研究所）；Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo（东京大学前沿科学研究生院）；Research Center for Energy and Environmental Materials(GREEN)（能源与环境材料研究中心（GREEN））；Center for Advanced Battery Collaboration, Research Center for Energy and Environmental Materials (GREEN)（先进电池协作中心，能源与环境材料研究中心（GREEN））
Holistic Construction Automation with Modular Robots: From High-Level Task Specification to Execution
Technical University of Munich, Department of Computer Engineering（慕尼黑技术大学计算机工程系）；Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML)（慕尼黑机器学习中心）；Fraunhofer Italia Research, Robotics and Intelligent Systems Engineering（弗劳恩霍夫意大利研究所机器人与智能系统工程）
ProAgent: From Robotic Process Automation to Agentic Process Automation
Tsinghua University（清华大学）；Massachusetts Institute of Technology（麻省理工学院）；Carnegie Mellon University（卡内基梅隆大学）；ModelBest Inc.（ModelBest公司）；Renmin University of China（中国人民大学）
Accelerating Medical Knowledge Discovery through Automated Knowledge Graph Generation and Enrichment
TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology（TIB——莱布尼茨科学与技术信息中心）；Harvard University（哈佛大学）；University of Birmingham（伯明翰大学）；Amazon（亚马逊公司）；St. John’s University（圣约翰大学）
Linking Behaviour and Perception to Evaluate Meaningful Human Control over Partially Automated Driving
Centre for Meaningful Human Control（有意义的人控中心）；Department of Cognitive Robotics（认知机器人学系）；Department of Transport & Planning（交通与规划系）；Department of Intelligent Systems（智能系统系）；Delft University of Technology（代尔夫特理工大学）
