Automation is the art of letting machines and systems handle repetitive, precise or complex tasks on their own. It’s used across industrial production as well as software tooling and IT workflows.
Through automation organizations and individuals can reduce errors, increase throughput and free up time for more creative or strategic work. It can also improve safety - machines can operate in environments that are hazardous or inaccessible to humans.
Today automation appears both as hardware (robot arms on factory floors) and software (scripts, CI/CD pipelines and RPA tools that control workflows and processes with minimal human input).