The biggest product announcements from UiPath FUSION 2026

Raghu Malpani on stage at UiPath FUSION conference

Summarize:

Agents are easy to demo, but production is hard. Two of the biggest challenges are giving agents the right context and orchestrating complex business processes across boundaries (people, agents, and robots).

Today at FUSION, we shared our point of view on how to address these challenges. Enterprise context becomes a first-class layer of the UiPath Platform™, held as a Map of Work that your people and agents collaborate on. UiPath Cartographer drafts and maintains the Map of Work and is generally available today. UiPath for Coding Agents builds business processes and task automations informed by the Map of Work. Finally, we are previewing the dark testing factory on UiPath Test Cloud: a new operating model for software quality that automates the testing system itself, not just individual tests.

I am super proud of the UiPath team for all the passion and hard work that went into everything we are announcing at FUSION 2026. Here is a more detailed breakdown of the announcements:

  • Map of Work: an artifact stored in your tenant and read by people and agents alike, it holds rules and policies written so a machine can check them, and the judgment of your experienced people. A Decision Ledger, previewed today and on our roadmap, will drive continuous improvement.

  • UiPath Cartographer, generally available today: it drafts and maintains your Map of Work from documents, systems, and people, with every fact carrying its source and verifier.

  • Process Atlas, shipping inside Cartographer: 83 expert-attested processes across 7 industries and 25 process areas.

  • UiPath for Coding Agents, across the full platform (generally available today): developers can build, test, and operate cases, workflows, and tests using any coding agent.

  • UiPath Maestro™ is now two complementary products: Maestro Orchestrate for long-running, complex business processes and Maestro Automate for high-volume tasks.

  • UiPath Delegate, also generally available today, is a governed agent on your desktop for the tasks your people would otherwise do by hand. Describe the task in plain language or show it once, and Delegate completes it across your applications and business systems, under the same identity, permissions, and audit controls as the rest of the UiPath Platform.

UiPath Platform Markitecture diagram September 2026

The diagram above shows where today's announcements sit relative to the UiPath Platform that we have been innovating on for more than a decade.

The right context matters

Most enterprise knowledge is scattered and contradictory. Consider a warranty claim for a failed conveyor: the procedure is in Microsoft SharePoint from 2019, the policy split across two spreadsheets, the rest in a Teams thread and in the head of the specialist who knows this supplier always gets paid. Every source is legitimate, and none of it is anything an agent can reason over. Even as models continue to get better, without access to all of this context, they will not be able to deliver value.

The Map of Work closes this gap. It is the overall specification of how work is done at your company, stored in your tenant, and owned by your people. Everything on the platform from complex processes down to individual tasks is informed by the Map of Work.

It holds three things. Rules and policies, written so a machine can check them. The judgment your experienced people apply: precedents, exceptions, worked examples. And, previewed today and on our roadmap, a Decision Ledger that records who decided what, on what evidence. The Ledger is what will make the Map improve: decisions made in production become proposed updates to the Map and to the processes and automations built from it.

Nothing changes without an accountable owner approving the change, and the Map outlives whichever model you happen to be running. UiPath Founder and CEO Daniel Dines makes the full case for the Map of Work in his blog post today. Read the blog post.

UiPath Cartographer, generally available today, drafts and maintains the Map of Work from documents, systems, and people. Every fact carries its source and verifier, and when two people give different answers, Cartographer surfaces the contradiction and asks which is right, because averaging two answers produces a third that nobody gave.

See UiPath Cartographer map a real process

With business processes in the real world, you rarely start from a blank page. Process Atlas ships inside Cartographer with 83 expert-attested processes across seven industries and 25 process areas, and prebuilt UiPath Solutions arrive with the map already drawn for common processes in finance, healthcare, customer experience, and more.

Once a Map of Work is approved, it is the specification. UiPath for Coding Agents, also generally available today, lets your developers build cases, workflows, and tests from the approved Map using whichever coding agent they already prefer, with evaluations gating every deployment. This is the only way I know of today to produce something you would put in front of an auditor or trust with your mission critical workloads.

Orchestrating processes and tasks with Maestro

Our approach to balancing agency (for people and AI) with governance control has matured with real world usage: every actor in a business process, whether a person, agent, or robot, gets enough permission to do the job and no more, with audit logs. UiPath Maestro™ is how we enforce and orchestrate across boundaries.

Maestro is now two products, split by the shape of the work:

  • Maestro Orchestrate runs the long-running processes that cross teams, systems, and actors and hold their state for weeks, the ones where a failure breaks somebody's quarter, keeping every person, agent, and robot within the control they were given

  • Maestro Automate runs the thousands of small, fast tasks that keep those processes moving, on the same canvas your builders already use

Both are informed by the same Map of Work, and the same governance controls apply.

See Delegate in action

Dark testing factory

Coding agents have also changed the economics of software: it is created faster, changed more often, and all of it carries risk that has to be tested. Adding more people or writing more scripts will not keep up. Software quality needs a new operating model, and the dark testing factory is ours.

Built on UiPath Test Cloud, it automates the testing system itself rather than individual tests. At FUSION, we’re showing its building blocks and how they work together to make testing increasingly autonomous. Autonomy without control is not an enterprise strategy, so the model is built around human accountability: people set the goals, provide the context, establish the boundaries, and make the calls that require judgment. Testing agents and deterministic scripts execute within those boundaries, with governance being part of the system rather than added afterward.

The tester's job gets bigger, not smaller. Less time running tests, resetting environments, and chasing failures; more time deciding what matters, resolving ambiguity, and improving the system itself. The full dark testing factory is still emerging, and we will show more as it takes shape.

Join us!

And this is only day one of FUSION—check out the agenda (online or in the UiPath Events app) and take a deeper dive into the announcements above with dedicated sessions. If you cannot be with us in Las Vegas in person, register for The Best Bits and we will email you the best of FUSION after the conference.

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