In this week's news:

Is the COVID-19 pandemic speeding up automation adoption?

Blue Prism raises $120M.

Even NASA is adopting RPA.

Enjoy this collection of top articles on the intelligent automation transformation.

In the News

Blue Prism raises over $120 million to bolster its robotic process automation suite | VentureBeat — venturebeat.com

Blue Prism, a publicly traded robotic process automation company based in London, has raised $120 million in venture capital.

COVID-19 Speeding Up Automation

Pandemic forces companies, govts to adopt automation

Companies are asking for automation to enable working from home and manage data related to covid.Some state governments are also looking at robotic process automation to ensure smooth operation in a big way

How Will the Pandemic Impact the Future of Work? - ReadWrite — rpatools.co

How to prepare for a new digital workforce. Learn how process intelligence is the key to digital transformation and the future of work.

Expect More Jobs And More Automation In The Post-COVID-19 Economy — www.forbes.com

COVID-19 presents a unique opportunity to further automate the workplace, with the goals of keeping workers safe, more productive, and accelerating global output.

The robots are ready as the COVID-19 recession spreads — www.brookings.edu

Any coronavirus-related recession is likely to bring about a spike in labor-replacing automation.

Automation Is Booming – Robots Are Taking Over Amid Lock-downs — enterprisetalk.com

 COVID-19 has taken hold all over the world, pushing the economic space and market scenario into the uncertainties. In this essence, there has been a rapid increase in the usage of RPA.

US Government Adopting RPA

NASA working on RPA security plan to set unattended bots in motion | Federal News Network — federalnewsnetwork.com

NASA’s agency-wide RPA security plan will give internal systems administrators details on unattended bot security vetting.

How Agencies Are Making New Use of RPA | FedTech Magazine — fedtechmagazine.com

Robotic process automation is helping agencies respond to the public health crisis by saving time and energy.

Reskilling the Workforce

In the age of automation, technology will be essential to reskilling the workforce | World Economic Forum — www.weforum.org

Technology companies will have new responsibilities in a more automated world. Here's how they can prepare their workforce for the changes ahead.