Automation

Source-reviewed research and assets tagged with Automation.

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Papers & surveys

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Paper2010-04

GUI Testing Using Computer Vision

Tsung-Hsiang Chang, Tom Yeh et al.

Presents visual GUI test scripts that use images to specify actions and expected screen feedback. Recording both input events and screenshots can generate tests from demonstrations, supporting unit, regression, and test-driven workflows.

Model

ShowUI-π

Vision-language-action model and training code for GUI dragging, with links to checkpoints and continuous-action evaluation data.

Desktop

Engineering & industry

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Product

Amazon Nova Act

AWS service for building and deploying agents that automate browser-based UI workflows from natural language and Python, powered by a custom Nova 2 Lite model.

Web
Infrastructure

AndroidEnv

Android device-control platform with screenshots, accessibility telemetry, input actions, and an optional reinforcement-learning task interface.

Android
Infrastructure

Appium

Open-source WebDriver-based automation server for mobile, desktop and IoT apps, extended by per-platform drivers for iOS, Android, macOS and Windows, plugins, and clients in Java, Python, Ruby and C#.

AndroidiOSAdjacent research
Tool

AUITestAgent

Generates mobile GUI interactions from natural-language test requirements and checks application behavior against those requirements.

Agent

COLA demo

Research demonstration of collaborative Windows GUI automation with dynamic task scheduling and recovery mechanisms.

DesktopWindows
Framework

GUI-HARVEST

Optimizes GUI-agent execution code from repeated rollout evidence and checks proposed changes against fixed validation gates.

Desktop
Agent

Lumen browser agent

A screenshot-driven browser agent over Chrome DevTools Protocol, with resumable sessions, context compression, action replay and configurable completion checks.

Web
Tool

Mobile Next MCP

An MCP server exposing mobile accessibility snapshots, screenshots and device interactions across real devices, simulators and emulators.

AndroidiOS
Agent

Nanobrowser

A browser-extension agent that reads pages, interacts with elements and moves between tabs from a side-panel task interface.

Web
Infrastructure

Nut.js

Desktop automation library for keyboard, mouse, and screen interaction.

DesktopAdjacent research
Tool

OculiX (SikuliX continuation)

A maintained continuation of SikuliX that locates on-screen targets with image matching and OCR, drives desktop or Android interfaces, and exposes scripting and optional MCP interfaces.

DesktopWindowsmacOSLinuxAndroid
Agent

OpenAgents Web Agent

The OpenAgents browser-control component, connecting a Chrome extension to a web agent and local chat platform for navigating sites and completing interface tasks.

Web
Tool

Playwright MCP

MCP server that lets LLM clients drive Playwright browsers through structured accessibility snapshots instead of screenshots, with opt-in vision, PDF and devtools capabilities.

Web
Infrastructure

PyAutoGUI

Cross-platform Python module for scripted mouse and keyboard control, message boxes and screenshots with on-screen image search, working on the primary monitor under Windows, macOS and Linux.

DesktopAdjacent research
Agent

ShowUI-Aloha

Desktop agent that records demonstrations, derives semantic action traces, and uses them to plan and execute related workflows.

DesktopWindowsmacOS
Infrastructure

Universe legacy GUI interaction client

An archived Gym-compatible client that exposes screen observations and keyboard/mouse actions over VNC for remote application and browser environments, including the historical World of Bits integration.

WebDesktopAdjacent research
Tool

Windows-MCP

A Windows MCP bridge exposing application, window, keyboard and mouse operations plus native UI-state inspection for agents.

WindowsDesktopWeb

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