Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is exactly what it sounds like; using a robotic software process to automate an existing task, in order to save time and free up human workers to do more high-value tasks. There are a number of players in this emerging space, and Riot spoke with UiPath’s Guy Kirkwood about the opportunity in digital transformation. The technology behind UiPath’s systems is not the latest in AI or machine-learning software, or some proprietary bleeding-edge scripting language. It is Microsoft’s .NET framework Workflow Foundation for creating the robotic processes. It’s surprisingly low-key, but Kirkwood said it is highly extensible. Kirkwood shares Riot’s view that much of the AI hype actually boils down to analytics programs rather than actual artificial…