First, the user selects the hard­ware com­po­nents, which means the robot, the grip­per and the sen­sors used in his robot appli­ca­tion. Over 60 func­tion blocks (so-called tem­plates) are avail­able in a library for pro­gram­ming the process. These not only offer sim­ple robot move­ments, but also sub-processes such as force-con­trolled align­ment and search­ing, cam­era-based detec­tion tasks and com­mu­ni­ca­tion with other machines and devices. After select­ing the respec­tive block, a dig­i­tal assis­tant (wiz­ard) guides the user through the con­fig­u­ra­tion. Via the sim­u­la­tion fea­ture inte­grated into the soft­ware the pro­grams cre­ated an then be checked imme­di­ately. Dur­ing sim­u­la­tion he can graph­i­cally deter­mine whether the robot can, for exam­ple, approach and reach all points in the work­ing area or whether col­li­sions with the envi­ron­ment may occur. Finally, the cre­ated pro­gram is trans­lated into the pro­gram­ming lan­guage of the robot and trans­ferred to the robot con­troller. There, the pro­gram can now be opti­mized under real con­di­tions on the robot itself and taken over into ongo­ing operation.