Chatbots
Bots that converse with people, often to answer questions or perform tasks for people as a type of user interface.
Social Media Bots
Automation of social media tasks such as posting content or replying to direct messages.
Web Crawlers
Bots that discover and process websites for purposes such as search.
Game Bots
Non-human players in video games.
Trading Bots
Bots that implement algorithmic trading on markets by buying, selling and monitoring market conditions.
Shopping Bots
Automate shopping tasks such as price comparisons or monitoring for something to be back in stock.
Virtual Assistants
Tools that perform tasks, automate things and provide information based on commands issued by a person.
Malicious Bots
Bots that are up to no good such as probing devices on the internet for security vulnerabilities.
Batch Jobs
Scripts and other code that runs on a schedule to perform work such as maintenance on a server.
Monitoring bots
Bots that monitor for events such as an event on a security camera.
Botnets
A large number of bots that work together in a coordinated fashion. These are often malicious bots running on compromised devices.
| Overview: Bot | ||
Type | ||
Definition (1) | A robot that takes no physical form. | |
Definition (2) | A self contained automation. | |
Value | Automating repetitive tasks. | |
Risk | Associated with malicious activity such as spam and security threats. | |
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