About Autopilot

Autopilot™ is a set of AI-powered experiences designed to automate and streamline various day-to-day tasks. Its diverse functionalities handle both general productivity and department-specific tasks across an array of business areas.

Autopilot understands the context of various elements like documents, screens, communications, and processes, and performs actions accordingly.

Autopilot across the platform

Autopilot provides different experiences, tailored to the specific needs and requirements of different user personas:

• Autopilot for developers
• Autopilot for testers

• Autopilot for Everyone

Autopilot for developers is available in the following UiPath products:

• In Studio, StudioX, and Studio Web, where you can generate workflows and expressions by describing the desired outcome.
• In Apps, where you can enhance your low-code application development process.

Autopilot for testers is available in the following UiPath products:

• In Test Manager, where you can evaluate requirements such as user stories for quality aspects such as clarity, consistency, and completeness, generate manual test cases with step-by-step instructions, and gain actionable insights into failing test cases.
• In Studio, where you can automate manual test cases and generate synthetic test data.

Autopilot for Everyone is available in the following UiPath products:

• In Assistant, where you can use natural language to run automations, query data sources, analyze images and files, access Clipboard AI, and leverage generative AI capabilities.

Capabilities

Regardless of the particular Autopilot tool you are using or interacting with, there are some core features that persist across different use cases. Here are the main characteristics:

• AI-powered: Autopilot uses artificial intelligence to accurately interpret inputs and execute corresponding tasks. This enables you to interact with Autopilot using natural language.
• Automation generation: Autopilot can automate a wide range of tasks, from data extraction and paperwork processing, to more complex operations. It can interpret your requests, convert them to workflows or applications, and suggest fixes.
• Self-service and assisted experiences: Autopilot covers both self-service and assisted experiences:
  • If you have a clear understanding of your automation needs and you can describe it in natural language, you can use the Autopilot extensive self-service features, which include:
    • text to workflow,
    • text to coded workflows,
    • text to expressions,
    • text to test cases,
    • text to application.
  • If you find it challenging to convey complex tasks in natural language, you can use the many assisted experiences, which include:
    • summarizing blocks of automation,
    • suggested best practices and optimizations,
    • generating applications from .pdf files and images.
• Cross-application compatibility: Autopilot is designed to work seamlessly across both web-based and desktop applications, and it accepts inputs from various sources, and integrating with popular apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and many more.
• Comprehensive data processing: Autopilot can analyze large volumes of data, generate useful insights, and suggest actions based on analysis. Its ability to handle various data types from multiple sources can significantly impact your decision-making processes.
• Streamlining automation: Featuring a user-friendly and intuitive interface, Autopilot is accessible to everybody, irrespective of your technical proficiency.
• Contextually aware: Autopilot goes beyond just understanding prompts. It understands the context of your requests, and provides the basis for optimal results.
• Process optimization: Autopilot is not just designed to perform tasks, but to perform them optimally. It learns from experience, enhances efficiency, and consistently aims for the best possible output.
• Compliance: To ensure compliance with company policies, data governance and privacy controls are available to IT admins.

Analytics

UiPath Insights provides Autopilot-centric dashboards that can help organization administrator understand license consumption and allocation, as well as system performance, user engagement, and program ROI.

Learn more about the Autopilot and Autopilot Usage dashboard in Insights.