News / US tech start-up RPA set to disrupt logistics with AI bots

A US start-up is bringing ’robotic process automation’ (RPA) to the logistics arena, to speed up repetitive processes and customer interaction to free employees for other tasks.

Fledgling technology company RPA Labs wants to harness the nascent technology to facilitate processes in logistics and officially entered the arena today, after a year developing its software bots.

Matt Motsick, co-founder and CEO of the San Jose-based firm, described RPA technology as a cousin to artificial intelligence, combining that with with machine learning, natural ...