CircleCI's scheduled pipelines offer a powerful and flexible approach to automating tasks in continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) environments by allowing users to run pipelines at defined intervals such as hourly, daily, or weekly. This feature replaces the older scheduled workflows and provides enhanced control and flexibility by enabling entire pipelines to be scheduled, including passing pipeline parameters. The scheduling can be managed via both the API and the user interface, allowing more granular control over who can set up and execute these schedules using CircleCI contexts, which also help in managing deployment credentials securely. Scheduled pipelines are not limited to builds but can also be used for regular tasks like database backups or service restarts. The tutorial guides users through setting up scheduled pipelines from scratch or migrating from scheduled workflows, using an open-source Android library project as an example, and demonstrates the setup using both the API and the GUI. It covers how to create and manage schedules, discusses the advantages of scheduled pipelines over scheduled workflows, and explores various use cases, emphasizing the ease of scheduling complex or time-consuming tests to run during off-hours to optimize development workflows.