# Browser automation Projects at AI Tinkerers

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Browser automation is the programmatic control of a web browser (Chrome, Firefox, etc.) to simulate human actions: essential for reliable web testing, data scraping, and Robotic Process Automation (RPA).

Browser automation is a core technology for replicating complex, repetitive user interactions on the web at scale. It uses specialized frameworks, notably Selenium and Playwright, to drive a browser instance (headless or visible) via a defined API, executing commands like clicks, form submissions, and navigation. This capability is critical for QA teams running cross-browser regression tests, developers performing high-volume web scraping for data aggregation, and operations teams implementing RPA to automate tedious, multi-step business workflows. The goal is simple: eliminate manual effort and guarantee precision across thousands of web-based tasks, significantly boosting operational efficiency.

- Official technology site: https://www.selenium.dev/
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 3
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Quality in the age of AI](https://islamabad-rawalpindi.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_L3a9baolTt0)

Orcastrator is an agentic QA automation system built to help teams keep software quality aligned with the speed of AI-assisted development. I began by discussing the quality challenges the software industry is facing as AI accelerates the delivery of code and features. I highlighted the concerns being reported by technology companies and research teams, and why maintaining quality is becoming increasingly important as development continues to move faster. From there, I used a live demo application to show how quality automation can now be authored through just a few prompts. The demonstration focused on how teams can move from understanding what needs to be tested to creating and executing meaningful automated tests with far less manual effort. I then showed how we have approached this problem with Orcastrator. The platform enables agentic quality automation that can operate at a speed much closer to modern software delivery, while remaining structured and powerful enough to provide meaningful coverage. The demo showed how application areas, test cases, execution runs, logs, screenshots, traces, and product health reporting can be connected within a single quality model. This makes the process of creating, running, and understanding tests as seamless as possible without sacrificing the depth needed to identify genuine product risks. The broader point was that, as software delivery becomes increasingly agentic, quality assurance must evolve alongside it. Testing cannot remain a slow, disconnected stage at the end of development. It needs to become an integrated and equally agentic part of how software is built and delivered.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Islamabad - July 18, 2026 — 2026-07-18 — Islamabad Rawalpindi
- Public talk page: https://islamabad-rawalpindi.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_L3a9baolTt0

### [From Chatbots to Sandboxes: Why AI Needs an Execution Layer](https://singapore.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_5A7Kmd5lcps)

The audience at this event is already fluent in AI hype. This talk is designed to cut through that by focusing on what actually works in practice: shipping AI systems that can reliably execute tasks in the real world. Founders, operators, and developers experimenting with agents or automations often hit the same wall. Chat-based tools are impressive, but they fall apart when tasks require memory, state, files, or time. By sharing lessons from building Mogra’s persistent sandbox, this talk gives attendees a clearer mental model for where agentic AI breaks today and how to design around those limitations.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers - The Age of AI & Infrastructure (Singapore) — 2026-02-11 — Singapore
- Public talk page: https://singapore.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_5A7Kmd5lcps

### [Browse the web with natural language using stagehand](https://sf.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_i_8RkLA3YjQ)

Stagehand is a natural language interface to Playwright, which allows you to browse the web using both Playwright and natural language!

- Event context: AI Tinkerers - Halloween Edition - October 2024 Meetup — 2024-10-23 — San Francisco
- Public talk page: https://sf.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_i_8RkLA3YjQ

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