UiPath Robots
UiPath Robots are the execution components of the UiPath Automation Platform, designed to run automation workflows created in UiPath Studio under the governance of UiPath Orchestrator. These robots interact with applications, systems, data, and screens just like a human user would, but with greater speed, accuracy, and consistency. UiPath offers multiple robot types (attended, unattended, test, and SaaS serverless) to support different automation scenarios—from desktop assistants working alongside people to backend bots processing large-scale workflows. In short, UiPath Robots serve as the “digital workforce,” shifting repetitive manual tasks into automated systems that run under defined workflows, rules, and orchestration.
Key Features
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Attended Robots: Deployed on user desktops to assist employees in real-time, triggered by the user or UI event. These robots run in the user context, use the user credentials, and are ideal for tasks requiring human-machine collaboration.
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Unattended Robots: Run autonomously on servers or VMs, 24/7, executing long-running, scale-oriented workflows without human intervention. Ideal for back-office, batch, or enterprise-scale automations.
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Test Robots: Created for automated testing of workflows, enabling quality assurance teams to validate automations via the same robot engine.
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SaaS / Serverless Robot Modes: Robots that are managed in the cloud (via UiPath Automation Cloud) with minimal infrastructure required, enabling faster scaling and deployment.
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Broad Application & Platform Compatibility: Robots can integrate with legacy and modern systems, UI automation, API automation, AI/ML components, and popular enterprise applications such as SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft, and ServiceNow.
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Scalability & Governance: Through Orchestrator, administrators can manage robot fleets, schedule jobs, queue workloads, monitor performance, handle error-handling logic, and enforce audit & security policies.
Use Cases
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A customer-service desk uses attended robots to fetch customer profile data from multiple systems during a live call, allowing the agent to focus on the conversation while the robot populates required fields.
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A finance team uses unattended robots overnight to process large volumes of invoices, reconcile payments and generate reports without human oversight.
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An IT operations team employs test robots to execute regression tests on automated workflows after updates, ensuring behaviour remains correct before production deployment.
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A global enterprise uses a mixture of robot types to scale automation across regions—desktop-assist robots for local teams and cloud-hosted unattended robots for centralised processing—managed via Orchestrator and integrated into a “digital workforce” strategy.
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When organisations adopt agentic automation where AI agents decide tasks and humans supervise, UiPath Robots serve as the reliable execution layer, bridging decision to action.
Pricing & Plans
While UiPath publishes general pricing details, standardised pricing for Robots alone is not openly listed in full detail. Typically, robot licensing and cost depend on factors such as the robot type (attended/unattended), number of robots, deployment model (cloud vs on-premises), scale of usage (volume of work), and service level agreements (SLAs). For accurate costing, you should contact UiPath’s sales team specifying your scenario: number of robots needed, types, expected volume, deployment architecture, and other requirements.
Integrations & Compatibility
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Fully integrated with UiPath Orchestrator for deployment management, scheduling, monitoring, logging and governance.
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Works seamlessly with Studio-built workflows—processes developed in Studio can be deployed to robots for execution.
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Compatible with attended and unattended robot models, enabling hybrid automation architectures.
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Supports enterprise applications and platforms, enabling robots to automate across desktop, web, API, mainframe UI and other systems.
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Supports scaling and orchestration in cloud, on-premises or hybrid environments, enabling flexible architecture.
Pros & Cons
| Pros | Cons |
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| Enables significant efficiency gains by offloading repetitive tasks to software robots | Licensing and deployment complexity may require advanced planning and governance |
| Offers multiple robot types suited for different automation needs (desktop assistants, backend bots, test bots) | Organisations must ensure process readiness, data quality and infrastructure to maximise value |
| Broad compatibility with enterprise systems and strong orchestration features via Orchestrator | Smaller use-cases may find the full architecture (robots + orchestrator + tooling) more than required |
| Supports enterprise-scale automation, hybrid architectures and scaling | Cost transparency is limited and budget estimation may require vendor engagement |
Final Verdict
UiPath Robots are the cornerstone of the UiPath automation ecosystem, representing the operational layer where automation workflows come to life. They allow enterprises to invest once in workflow design and then scale execution across desktops, servers or clouds with proper governance, scheduling and monitoring.
If your organisation is serious about scaling automation beyond isolated pilots—deploying hundreds or thousands of bots, managing workforce optimisation and integrating attended and unattended models—then UiPath Robots deliver reliable, enterprise-grade digital workers.
For smaller teams or simpler tasks, consider starting with a few bots to test value, and then scale via the Orchestrator + robot model as automation maturity grows.