Discussing UiPath and the interplay between AI and automation [Video]

Artificial intelligence is driving cutting-edge automation use cases that are increasingly important to enterprise operations. In response, the industry is building out expertise and infrastructure in an effort to expand the frontiers of innovation to support AI and automation.

UiPath Inc. is one such stakeholder. Having evolved from early robotic process automation to comprehensive enterprise automation, the company is charging ahead to integrate AI agents into business processes.

“They were doing AI for a long, long time,” said Dave Vellante (pictured, left) chief analyst at theCUBE Research. “They started with computer vision [and] they had machine learning, etc. But then gen AI has changed everything. I think people are finding out that it’s harder than they thought to implement AI in a way that enterprises expect. Act 2 is all about going beyond bots into agents. [Robotics process automation] is like the plumbing. Without it, water will be spraying everywhere.”

Vellante and co-host Rebecca Knight (right) hosted an analyst segment at UiPath Forward 2024during …