This article is produced by NetEase Smart Studio (public number smartman 163). Focus on AI and read the next big era! [NetEase Smart News, January 5] When people think of robots, they usually think of robots with artificial intelligence. To a certain extent, they have the ability to rise and surpass humans as they learn and grow. Aside from the sci-fi story, many people do not realize that robots have existed for a long time and are often different from what they imagined. There are already many different types of robotics, including Amazon's mobile robots that are used to work with distribution centers, or robot assistants currently in some Target and Lowe stores. However, the physical robot deployed in the blue-collar workforce is not the only one that can promote commercial development. There are also less eye-catching robots. Many companies have used robots to increase the efficiency of white-collar workers. How companies add robots while retaining their employees Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is the interaction of software robots with existing business and Web applications and is the key to the automation of processes within the company. Through RPA, employees have a lot of gains, including the freedom to focus on production, not the repetitive tasks. Now, as these robots become smarter and easier to deploy, routine tasks such as coordinating financial data tables or submitting human resources documents will become past. This will help foster a successful employee engagement strategy that allows employees to focus on actual data analysis and formulate strategic decisions that are beneficial to customers and companies, thereby increasing performance. Manual labor reduces productivity From finance to settlement to IT, employees in all departments have a series of tasks that require manual and repetitive tasks. On average, managers spend two days a week dealing with administrative affairs, while in the United States about 575 billion US dollars is spent on administrative work each year. Millennial employees would rather earn 40,000 U.S. dollars a year to do their favorite jobs, instead of earning 100,000 U.S. dollars a year and doing something boring. There are inherent risks in these manual work. These risks include unnecessary burdens on employees due to overtime, as well as some issues such as leaving and changing jobs. Not only that, in the case of staff shortages, they are less likely to develop their own ideas and make decisions that may benefit the company's overall benefits. When companies look for new ways to gain competitive advantage and increase customer and employee loyalty, it is more important to use the right technology to free employees from dull, tedious work, and many people already have robots. With the help of the found freedom. Wal-Mart will soon be equipped with robots in 50 stores A new type of robot is flattening the learning curve. With the help of robotics technology, the company is paving the way for changing the way employees work. According to a recent report, 70% of IT decision makers believe that robotics technology has only become increasingly important in the last year. In this growth process, some robotic solutions have become "plug and play" rather than having to be created from scratch, and have the best practice process knowledge that can be easily configured by business users. This makes them easier to access, easier and faster to install and use. As robotics becomes increasingly mainstream, by 2020, robotic process automation promises to reduce the workforce of shared service centers by 65%. This not only increases the speed, efficiency and accuracy of the work, but also the employees will gain a lot of time, resulting in ideas that will benefit customers and the company. For financial professionals, this is very obvious. In the next 20 years, their roles will have a 93% chance of automation, but many accountants worry that it will make them fall into unemployment. Automation is actually good news. Most current accountants are caught up in the ERP process, such as invoicing or manual reconciliation or data entry, all of which prevent them from using financial data to make strategic recommendations to the business. With RPA, robots will perform manual, repetitive tasks instead of them, reduce the burden of processes such as revenue confirmation, and ultimately bring the finance team closer to the 80/20 model, 80% of which will be spent on analysis rather than manual work. Robots do better: Why automation is good for business? In order to obtain these benefits, companies must develop the right strategy. According to Gartner's research, by 2019, only 50% of companies will realize the impact of process automation on the company. Why? Because too many companies mistakenly focus on layoffs. Unfortunately, this mentality only limits the power of the RPA. When the robot strategy is mapped to business outcomes and overall goals, the real benefits will be realized. Robotics enables companies to realize benefits they could not have imagined, because in a secular human world, they are constrained, which also limits innovation. In addition, by optimizing the way employees work, companies can truly empower their employees to surpass secular power and elevate their role to a strategist who brings greater value to the brand. In order for the company to maintain its leading position in the competition and keep employees engaged and excited about their roles, implementing the correct RPA strategy is critical to the success of the future. By staying ahead of the curve and implementing RPA as early as possible, the company will eventually free employees from manual tasks that plague productivity and allow them to make forward-looking decisions that will benefit from the end result. (Selected from: entrepreneur Review: Rain egg) Pay attention to NetEase smart public number (smartman163), obtain the latest report of artificial intelligence industry.