I was going to comment about this. Worked at a place that had a “Robotics Department”, wow I thought. Only to find out it was automating arcane software.
UI is now much more accessible as API. I hope we don’t start seeing captcha like behaviour in desktop or web software.
Wow, that's a grim potential future. I can already see software producers saying that e.g. the default license only allows operation of our CAD designer software by a human operator. If you want to make your bot use it in an automated way you must by the bot license which costs 10x more.