Robots are coming to help, not to take your job

While there is a fear around bots replicating the work of people, Alex Meehan reports on the upside to increased automation

Rebecca Keenan, head of process automation at Expleo Ireland

The first thing Rebecca Keenan has to explain to her friends when they ask her what she does for a living is that when she uses the word ‘robot’, she’s not talking about C-3PO style automatons. Instead, she’s using the term to describe the automation of processes and, as the head of Expleo’s process automation practice, it’s something she has a lot of experience with.

“We help companies understand where automation makes sense, ...