Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is the automation of rule-based routine processes to increase efficiency and to reduce costs. Due to the utmost importance of process automation in industry, RPA attracts increasing attention in the scientific field as well. This paper presents the state-of-the-art in the RPA field by means of a Systematic Literature Review (SLR). In this SLR, 63 publications are identified, categorised, and analysed along well-defined research questions. From the SLR findings, moreover, a framework for systematically analysing, assessing, and comparing existing as well as upcoming RPA works is derived. The discovered thematic clusters advise further investigations in order to develop an even more detailed structural research approach for RPA.
Robotic System for Chemical Experiment Automation with Dual Demonstration of End-effector and Jig Operations
Division of Information, Science Graduate School of Science and Technology（信息科学研究生院）；Nara Institute of Science and Technology（奈良科学技术大学）；Materials Informatics Initiative, RD technology and digital transformation center（材料信息学计划，RD技术与数字化转型中心）；JSR Corporation（JSR公司）；Fine Chemical Process Dept., JSR Corporation（JSR公司精细化学工艺部门）；Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science and Technology（科学与技术学部化学系）；Keio University（庆应义塾大学）；Data Science Center（数据科学中心）；Division of Materials Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology（材料科学系，研究生院）
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）
Sim4EndoR: A Reinforcement Learning Centered Simulation Platform for Task Automation of Endovascular Robotics
Tongji University（同济大学）；The University of Hong Kong（香港大学）；Soochow University（苏州大学）；University of Shanghai for Science and Technology（上海理工大学）；Shanghai East Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University（同济大学医学院附属东方医院）；United Imaging Research Institute of Intelligent Imaging（联影智能影像研究院）
MATTERIX: toward a digital twin for robotics-assisted chemistry laboratory automation
University of Toronto（多伦多大学）；Acceleration Consortium（加速联盟）；Vector Institute（向量研究所）；University of Liverpool（利物浦大学）；University of Salento（萨勒诺大学）；NVIDIA Canadian Institute for Advanced Research（NVIDIA加拿大高级研究机构）；Georgia Institute of Technology（佐治亚理工学院）
On Fulfilling the Exigent Need for Automating and Modernizing Logistics Infrastructure in India: Enabling AI-based Integration, Digitalization, and Smart Automation of Industrial Parks and Robotic Warehouses
Accurate and Noise-Tolerant Extraction of Routine Logs in Robotic Process Automation (Extended Version)
Department of Mathematics, University of Padua, Italy（帕多瓦大学数学系）；Department of Engineering and Science, Universitas Mercatorum of Rome, Italy（罗马默卡托里姆大学工程与科学系）
Towards Robotic Laboratory Automation Plug & Play: Survey and Concept Proposal on Teaching-free Robot Integration with the LAPP Digital Twin
Takeda Manufacturing Austria AG（武田奥地利制造公司）；Doctoral School of Applied Informatics and Applied Mathematics, Óbuda University（欧布达大学应用信息学与应用数学博士学院）；Óbuda University（欧布达大学）；Baxalta Innovations GmbH, a Takeda company（百特创新有限公司（武田旗下公司））；Alba Regia Technical Faculty, Óbuda University（欧布达大学阿尔巴雷吉亚技术学院）；Antal Bejczy Center for Intelligent Robotics, Óbuda University（欧布达大学安塔尔·贝伊奇智能机器人中心）
Accelerating Discovery in Natural Science Laboratories with AI and Robotics: Perspectives and Challenges from the 2024 IEEE ICRA Workshop, Yokohama, Japan
University of Liverpool（利物浦大学）；SiLA Consortium（SiLA联盟）；Acceleration Consortium（加速联盟）；University of Toronto（多伦多大学）；Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑工业大学）；University of Tokyo（东京大学）；University of British Columbia（不列颠哥伦比亚大学）；Roche Diagnostics GmbH（罗氏诊断有限公司）；Unchained Labs（Unchained实验室）；University of Rostock（罗斯托克大学）；Argonne National Laboratory（阿贡国家实验室）；Takeda（武田药品工业）；Óbuda University（欧布达大学）；Institute of Science Tokyo（东京科学大学）；Florida State University（佛罗里达州立大学）
Robotics Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago（机器人实验室，电气与计算机工程系，工程学院，伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校）；Surgical Innovation and Training Lab, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago（外科创新与培训实验室，外科系，医学院，伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校）
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））
Hybrid Robotic Meta-gripper for Tomato Harvesting: Analysis of Auxetic Structures with Lattice Orientation Variations
Tohoku University, Japan（东京东京大学）；Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands（代尔夫特理工大学）；Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India（印度理工学院坎浦尔分校）
