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ArtiMinds FAQ

Fre­quently asked ques­tions and answers about ArtiMinds RPS & LAR

How does the instal­la­tion work, which appli­ca­tions can I pro­gram with ArtiMinds or which inter­faces does the soft­ware offer me? Find answers to these and many other ques­tions in our FAQ section.

1. For whom is ArtiMinds suit­able and which appli­ca­tions can be realized?

The ArtiMinds soft­ware solu­tions sup­port any­one who wants to auto­mate exist­ing or new processes with robots. Our cus­tomers include large man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pa­nies, SMEs, sys­tem inte­gra­tors, but also uni­ver­si­ties. As a result, ArtiMinds RPS and LAR are used in a wide vari­ety of indus­tries such as auto­mo­tive, rail tech­nol­ogy, avi­a­tion, indus­trial and con­sumer elec­tron­ics, gen­eral indus­trial acces­sories, renew­able ener­gies, house­hold appli­ances, med­ical tech­nol­ogy, chem­i­cals, fur­ni­ture, pack­ag­ing, cloth­ing, and food. Assem­bly, elec­tronic pro­duc­tion, sur­face pro­cess­ing, qual­ity assur­ance and con­trol as well as han­dling are impor­tant and rel­e­vant types of appli­ca­tions for our customers.

3. Which tech­ni­cal require­ments are nec­es­sary to work with ArtiMinds RPS & LAR? 

A com­puter or note­book with at least the fol­low­ing spec­i­fi­ca­tions is rec­om­mended for ArtiMinds RPS:

  • Oper­at­ing sys­tem: Win­dows 10
  • Proces­sor: Intel or AMD, 2008 and newer
  • Main mem­ory: at least 8GB RAM
  • Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT, ATI Radeon HD 2600
  • Stor­age space: 15GB

A com­puter or server with at least the fol­low­ing spec­i­fi­ca­tions is rec­om­mended for ArtiMinds LAR:

  • Oper­at­ing sys­tem: Win­dows 10
  • Proces­sor: cur­rent quad core CPU
  • Main mem­ory: Depend­ing on the num­ber of robots and users. At least 16 GB RAM is rec­om­mended to get started
  • Graphic card: –
  • Stor­age space: Depend­ing on the size of the data­base and the num­ber of robot systems

If you are using a dif­fer­ent oper­at­ing sys­tem, please con­tact us >>GET IN CONTACT

5. How does ArtiMinds LAR sup­port me?

ArtiMinds LAR (Learn­ing & Ana­lyt­ics for Robots) col­lects the sen­sor data gen­er­ated dur­ing the test or dur­ing oper­a­tion and makes it avail­able to the user in a clear and graph­i­cally pre­pared form. In this way, the val­ues ​​of the respec­tive pro­gram­ming block­/­sub-process can be sys­tem­at­i­cally eval­u­ated. This makes it pos­si­ble to opti­mize processes with lit­tle effort, e.g. shorten pro­duc­tion and cycle times, improve qual­ity or make the entire appli­ca­tion more robust.

7. Are both online and offline pro­gram­ming possible?

Yes, in ArtiMinds RPS online and offline pro­gram­ming merge seam­lessly. In this way, you can start pro­gram­ming in the plan­ning phase with­out a robot and sim­u­late the appli­ca­tion as well as carry out reach­a­bil­ity analy­sis and col­li­sion checks. In the next step, indi­vid­ual points can be re-taught and adjusted on the real robot. Since the cre­ated pro­gram runs autonomously on the stan­dard con­troller of the robot, no con­nec­tion between the robot and ArtiMinds RPS is nec­es­sary after com­mis­sion­ing / dur­ing operation.

9. Can reach­a­bil­ity analy­sis be quickly realized?

Yes, reach­a­bil­ity analy­sis can be car­ried out with the help of our three-dimen­sional sim­u­la­tion envi­ron­ment and the CAD2Path func­tion in an easy way, allow­ing you to take the results directly into account for fur­ther pro­gram­ming and cell design.

11. Do I need train­ing to work with ArtiMinds software?

No long inten­sive train­ing is required to use ArtiMinds. You can learn the full scope of robot pro­gram­ming within just 2 days and later trans­fer this knowl­edge to var­i­ous robot sys­tems your­self. Since we have made the expe­ri­ence that train­ing helps users get­ting started and being able to imple­ment their projects more quickly and inde­pen­dently, the train­ing is already included in our basic license by default. This means that there are no extra costs for the train­ing. For more infor­ma­tion click >>HERE: ArtiMinds Academy

13. Is it nec­es­sary to con­nect the robot to the Robot Pro­gram­ming Suite dur­ing oper­a­tion or can the pro­gram also be exe­cuted with­out RPS?

No, a con­nec­tion to ArtiMinds RPS dur­ing oper­a­tion is not nec­es­sary. The soft­ware gen­er­ates native robot code that runs autonomously on the stan­dard con­troller of the robot. For this rea­son, no addi­tional hard­ware is needed in the robot cell.
If sen­sor and pro­gram data should be recorded with ArtiMinds LAR, the robot must be con­nected to the LAR server.

15. We already have a PLC stan­dard. Is it pos­si­ble to com­mu­ni­cate with the PLC via ArtiMinds RPS?

A robot pro­gram cre­ated with ArtiMinds RPS can com­mu­ni­cate with a PLC via var­i­ous com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­to­cols (Eth­er­net, Ether­cat, Mod­bus, Profinet IO). This hap­pens with our dig­i­tal IO mod­ules, with which e.g. BOOL or INT sig­nals can be sent and received. This means that com­plex pro­to­cols such as a hand­shake for order pro­cess­ing can be pro­grammed or data such as tray posi­tions can be exchanged.
If the same pro­to­col sec­tions are used sev­eral times in the RPS pro­gram, it is not nec­es­sary to reassem­ble them each time. You can save and reuse them as a cus­tom template.
If you already have a robot code for PLC com­mu­ni­ca­tion, it can also be eas­ily inserted into the RPS. In addi­tion, it is pos­si­ble to visu­al­ize fic­ti­tious PLC sig­nals and the asso­ci­ated processes in the simulation.

17. I have a (ongo­ing) robotics project. How can I involve ArtiMinds in this project?

Our soft­ware solu­tions can be eas­ily inte­grated into exist­ing processes and projects, because with ArtiMinds RPS you do not nec­es­sar­ily have to cre­ate the com­plete robot pro­gram, but can only gen­er­ate spe­cial sub-processes, while other parts are pro­grammed “clas­si­cally”. Besides that, ArtiMinds RPS is the right tool to intro­duce man­u­fac­turer-inde­pen­dent stan­dards in robot pro­gram­ming at your company.
In addi­tion, the team of the ArtiMinds Automa­tion Engi­neer­ing depart­ment with its many years of expe­ri­ence in robotics projects can advise you. From fea­si­bil­ity stud­ies for crit­i­cal process steps to solu­tion-ori­ented project sup­port, we are happy to help. >>CON­TACT OUR TEAM

19. Is it pos­si­ble to make sub­se­quent changes directly to the robot pro­gram (in the pro­gram­ming lan­guage of the robot man­u­fac­turer) with­out ArtiMinds RPS?

Yes, this is pos­si­ble at any time! ArtiMinds RPS gen­er­ates native pro­gram code that runs on the stan­dard con­troller of the robot man­u­fac­turer. This means that the pro­gram runs autonomously on the con­troller even with­out a con­nec­tion to ArtiMinds RPS and can be changed at any time in the native pro­gram­ming lan­guage. ArtiMinds also offers the option of inte­grat­ing native pro­gram code as a library or encap­su­lated in code tem­plates into the RPS program.

21. Which addi­tional software/technology pack­ages from my robot man­u­fac­turer do I need if I want to use ArtiMinds software?

To use the ArtiMinds soft­ware solu­tions, tech­nol­ogy pack­ages from the respec­tive robot man­u­fac­tur­ers may be required. Down­load this >>PDF to check which addi­tional soft­ware for which ArtiMinds mod­ule will be needed from the respec­tive robot manufacturer.

2. Do I need robotics expe­ri­ence to use ArtiMinds?

No, expe­ri­ence with the pro­gram­ming of robots is not required. The aim of our soft­ware solu­tions is to sim­plify the pro­gram­ming of robots and hard­ware com­po­nents, such as force-torque sen­sors, grip­pers and vision sys­tems, and to shorten the process. Even if you have no spe­cial expert knowl­edge. With ArtiMinds, process experts become robotics experts.
The deci­sive advan­tage of the soft­ware is that you can pro­gram robot appli­ca­tions inde­pen­dently of the hard­ware and to trans­fer the pro­gram to all sup­ported robot man­u­fac­tur­ers. The com­plete focus lies on the exist­ing process know-how. How­ever, work­ing with ArtiMinds does not replace safety train­ing on the respec­tive robot system!

4. How exactly does the robot pro­gram­ming with ArtiMinds RPS look like?

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.

6. Do exist­ing robot appli­ca­tions in our com­pany have to be adapted when using ArtiMinds?

No, the use of ArtiMinds in your com­pany does not require any changes to your exist­ing robot appli­ca­tions. Rather, ArtiMinds enables you to inte­grate robots into your pro­duc­tion processes in an even more diverse and inde­pen­dent man­ner. Please con­tact us to find out how we can sup­port you. >>GET IN CON­TACT or read this arti­cle about con­sis­tent inte­gra­tion of ArtiMinds.

8. Which robots and periph­eral hard­ware com­po­nents does ArtiMinds support?

ArtiMinds sup­ports numer­ous robot man­u­fac­tur­ers and hard­ware com­po­nents and the port­fo­lio is con­tin­u­ously expand­ing. An overview of the robots and periph­eral hard­ware com­po­nents cur­rently sup­ported can be found >>HERE
If you use hard­ware that is not listed in the overview, please con­tact us >>GET IN CONTACT
In addi­tion to robots, grip­pers, force-torque sen­sors and vision sys­tems, direct com­mu­ni­ca­tion with pro­gram­ma­ble logic con­trollers (PLC) is also supported.

10. Can cycle times be esti­mated quickly? 

Yes, the sim­u­la­tion allows you to carry out ini­tial cycle times esti­ma­tion as soon as in the plan­ning phase where you might not even have a real robot. After imple­men­ta­tion and dur­ing oper­a­tion, it is pos­si­ble to use ArtiMinds LAR to ana­lyze live data from the robot and e.g. to opti­mize cycle times.

12. How is the instal­la­tion done and what is the effort involved?

The instal­la­tion is car­ried out locally on the PC / lap­top and is com­pleted within a few min­utes. It is iden­ti­cal to the instal­la­tion of a con­ven­tional stan­dard pro­gram. An instal­la­tion wiz­ard guides you through the instal­la­tion so that no ArtiMinds employee has to visit you on site for commissioning.

14. How much effort does it take to con­fig­ure a robot with ArtiMinds RPS?

The effort is very lit­tle! Using the inte­grated robot con­fig­u­ra­tor, you can select your robot model and addi­tional hard­ware com­po­nents and thus define your indi­vid­ual setup. Thanks to the dri­ver library in the soft­ware, the cor­rect hard­ware con­nec­tion is estab­lished auto­mat­i­cally (dri­vers do not have to be cre­ated separately).

16. Can I save my projects, use them com­pany-wide and use them on any workstation?

ArtiMinds RPS auto­mat­i­cally saves projects in the form of a sin­gle, encrypted file that can be eas­ily shared. In addi­tion, the user can save self-devel­oped processes as tem­plates and reuse them in new projects.
We offer var­i­ous license mod­els for using the soft­ware. In addi­tion to work­sta­tion-spe­cific licenses, there is also the option of pur­chas­ing a server don­gle license (“float­ing don­gle”). If a server don­gle is installed on a net­work com­puter, all work­sta­tions con­nected to this net­work can run ArtiMinds RPS.

18. Can more com­plex and chal­leng­ing appli­ca­tions such as assem­bly tasks or the pro­cess­ing of sur­faces be real­ized with ArtiMinds RPS?

Yes, with ArtiMinds +Vision you can imple­ment all appli­ca­tions that require a reac­tion to the results of image pro­cess­ing, e.g. such as pick and place. ArtiMinds +Force enables force-con­trolled, sen­sor-adap­tive appli­ca­tions such as sur­face pro­cess­ing, join­ing, assem­bling, search­ing or aligning.

20. I need an inter­face to a cer­tain soft­ware envi­ron­ment. Does ArtiMinds for exam­ple sup­port ERP or qual­ity assur­ance software?

ArtiMinds has an HTML inter­face that can be used to con­nect other sys­tems to RPS. For details, please con­tact our sup­port >>GET IN CONTACT

1. For whom is ArtiMinds suit­able and which appli­ca­tions can be realized?

The ArtiMinds soft­ware solu­tions sup­port any­one who wants to auto­mate exist­ing or new processes with robots. Our cus­tomers include large man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pa­nies, SMEs, sys­tem inte­gra­tors, but also uni­ver­si­ties. As a result, ArtiMinds RPS and LAR are used in a wide vari­ety of indus­tries such as auto­mo­tive, rail tech­nol­ogy, avi­a­tion, indus­trial and con­sumer elec­tron­ics, gen­eral indus­trial acces­sories, renew­able ener­gies, house­hold appli­ances, med­ical tech­nol­ogy, chem­i­cals, fur­ni­ture, pack­ag­ing, cloth­ing, and food. Assem­bly, elec­tronic pro­duc­tion, sur­face pro­cess­ing, qual­ity assur­ance and con­trol as well as han­dling are impor­tant and rel­e­vant types of appli­ca­tions for our customers.

2. Do I need robotics expe­ri­ence to use ArtiMinds?

No, expe­ri­ence with the pro­gram­ming of robots is not required. The aim of our soft­ware solu­tions is to sim­plify the pro­gram­ming of robots and hard­ware com­po­nents, such as force-torque sen­sors, grip­pers and vision sys­tems, and to shorten the process. Even if you have no spe­cial expert knowl­edge. With ArtiMinds, process experts become robotics experts.
The deci­sive advan­tage of the soft­ware is that you can pro­gram robot appli­ca­tions inde­pen­dently of the hard­ware and to trans­fer the pro­gram to all sup­ported robot man­u­fac­tur­ers. The com­plete focus lies on the exist­ing process know-how. How­ever, work­ing with ArtiMinds does not replace safety train­ing on the respec­tive robot system!

3. Which tech­ni­cal require­ments are nec­es­sary to work with ArtiMinds RPS & LAR? 

A com­puter or note­book with at least the fol­low­ing spec­i­fi­ca­tions is rec­om­mended for ArtiMinds RPS:

  • Oper­at­ing sys­tem: Win­dows 10
  • Proces­sor: Intel or AMD, 2008 and newer
  • Main mem­ory: at least 8GB RAM
  • Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT, ATI Radeon HD 2600
  • Stor­age space: 15GB

A com­puter or server with at least the fol­low­ing spec­i­fi­ca­tions is rec­om­mended for ArtiMinds LAR:

  • Oper­at­ing sys­tem: Win­dows 10
  • Proces­sor: cur­rent quad core CPU
  • Main mem­ory: Depend­ing on the num­ber of robots and users. At least 16 GB RAM is rec­om­mended to get started
  • Graphic card: –
  • Stor­age space: Depend­ing on the size of the data­base and the num­ber of robot systems

If you are using a dif­fer­ent oper­at­ing sys­tem, please con­tact us >>GET IN CONTACT

4. Do exist­ing robot appli­ca­tions in our com­pany have to be adapted when using ArtiMinds?

No, the use of ArtiMinds in your com­pany does not require any changes to your exist­ing robot appli­ca­tions. Rather, ArtiMinds enables you to inte­grate robots into your pro­duc­tion processes in an even more diverse and inde­pen­dent man­ner. Please con­tact us to find out how we can sup­port you. >>GET IN CONTACT

5. Are both online and offline pro­gram­ming possible?

Yes, in ArtiMinds RPS online and offline pro­gram­ming merge seam­lessly. In this way, you can start pro­gram­ming in the plan­ning phase with­out a robot and sim­u­late the appli­ca­tion as well as carry out reach­a­bil­ity analy­sis and col­li­sion checks. In the next step, indi­vid­ual points can be re-taught and adjusted on the real robot. Since the cre­ated pro­gram runs autonomously on the stan­dard con­troller of the robot, no con­nec­tion between the robot and ArtiMinds RPS is nec­es­sary after com­mis­sion­ing / dur­ing operation.

6. Which robots and periph­eral hard­ware com­po­nents does ArtiMinds support?

ArtiMinds sup­ports numer­ous robot man­u­fac­tur­ers and hard­ware com­po­nents and the port­fo­lio is con­tin­u­ously expand­ing. An overview of the robots and periph­eral hard­ware com­po­nents cur­rently sup­ported can be found >>HERE
If you use hard­ware that is not listed in the overview, please con­tact us >>GET IN CONTACT
In addi­tion to robots, grip­pers, force-torque sen­sors and vision sys­tems, direct com­mu­ni­ca­tion with pro­gram­ma­ble logic con­trollers (PLC) is also supported.

7. Can reach­a­bil­ity analy­sis be quickly realized?

Yes, reach­a­bil­ity analy­sis can be car­ried out with the help of our three-dimen­sional sim­u­la­tion envi­ron­ment and the CAD2Path func­tion in an easy way, allow­ing you to take the results directly into account for fur­ther pro­gram­ming and cell design.

8. Can cycle times be esti­mated quickly? 

Yes, the sim­u­la­tion allows you to carry out ini­tial cycle times esti­ma­tion as soon as in the plan­ning phase where you might not even have a real robot. After imple­men­ta­tion and dur­ing oper­a­tion, it is pos­si­ble to use ArtiMinds LAR to ana­lyze live data from the robot and e.g. to opti­mize cycle times.

9. We already have a PLC stan­dard. Is it pos­si­ble to com­mu­ni­cate with the PLC via ArtiMinds RPS?

A robot pro­gram cre­ated with ArtiMinds RPS can com­mu­ni­cate with a PLC via var­i­ous com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­to­cols (Eth­er­net, Ether­cat, Mod­bus, Profinet IO). This hap­pens with our dig­i­tal IO mod­ules, with which e.g. BOOL or INT sig­nals can be sent and received. This means that com­plex pro­to­cols such as a hand­shake for order pro­cess­ing can be pro­grammed or data such as tray posi­tions can be exchanged.
If the same pro­to­col sec­tions are used sev­eral times in the RPS pro­gram, it is not nec­es­sary to reassem­ble them each time. You can save and reuse them as a cus­tom template.
If you already have a robot code for PLC com­mu­ni­ca­tion, it can also be eas­ily inserted into the RPS. In addi­tion, it is pos­si­ble to visu­al­ize fic­ti­tious PLC sig­nals and the asso­ci­ated processes in the simulation.

10. How is the instal­la­tion done and what is the effort involved?

The instal­la­tion is car­ried out locally on the PC / lap­top and is com­pleted within a few min­utes. It is iden­ti­cal to the instal­la­tion of a con­ven­tional stan­dard pro­gram. An instal­la­tion wiz­ard guides you through the instal­la­tion so that no ArtiMinds employee has to visit you on site for commissioning.

11. Do I need train­ing to work with ArtiMinds software?

No long inten­sive train­ing is required to use ArtiMinds. You can learn the full scope of robot pro­gram­ming within just 2 days and later trans­fer this knowl­edge to var­i­ous robot sys­tems your­self. Since we have made the expe­ri­ence that train­ing helps users get­ting started and being able to imple­ment their projects more quickly and inde­pen­dently, the train­ing is already included in our basic license by default. This means that there are no extra costs for the train­ing. For more infor­ma­tion click >>HERE: ArtiMinds Academy

12. How much effort does it take to con­fig­ure a robot with ArtiMinds RPS?

The effort is very lit­tle! Using the inte­grated robot con­fig­u­ra­tor, you can select your robot model and addi­tional hard­ware com­po­nents and thus define your indi­vid­ual setup. Thanks to the dri­ver library in the soft­ware, the cor­rect hard­ware con­nec­tion is estab­lished auto­mat­i­cally (dri­vers do not have to be cre­ated separately).

13. Is it nec­es­sary to con­nect the robot to the Robot Pro­gram­ming Suite dur­ing oper­a­tion or can the pro­gram also be exe­cuted with­out RPS?

No, a con­nec­tion to ArtiMinds RPS dur­ing oper­a­tion is not nec­es­sary. The soft­ware gen­er­ates native robot code that runs autonomously on the stan­dard con­troller of the robot. For this rea­son, no addi­tional hard­ware is needed in the robot cell.
If sen­sor and pro­gram data should be recorded with ArtiMinds LAR, the robot must be con­nected to the LAR server.

14. Can I save my projects, use them com­pany-wide and use them on any workstation?

ArtiMinds RPS auto­mat­i­cally saves projects in the form of a sin­gle, encrypted file that can be eas­ily shared. In addi­tion, the user can save self-devel­oped processes as tem­plates and reuse them in new projects.
We offer var­i­ous license mod­els for using the soft­ware. In addi­tion to work­sta­tion-spe­cific licenses, there is also the option of pur­chas­ing a server don­gle license (“float­ing don­gle”). If a server don­gle is installed on a net­work com­puter, all work­sta­tions con­nected to this net­work can run ArtiMinds RPS.

15. I have a (ongo­ing) robotics project. How can I involve ArtiMinds in this project?

Our soft­ware solu­tions can be eas­ily inte­grated into exist­ing processes and projects, because with ArtiMinds RPS you do not nec­es­sar­ily have to cre­ate the com­plete robot pro­gram, but can only gen­er­ate spe­cial sub-processes, while other parts are pro­grammed “clas­si­cally”. Besides that, ArtiMinds RPS is the right tool to intro­duce man­u­fac­turer-inde­pen­dent stan­dards in robot pro­gram­ming at your company.
In addi­tion, the team of the ArtiMinds Automa­tion Engi­neer­ing depart­ment with its many years of expe­ri­ence in robotics projects can advise you. From fea­si­bil­ity stud­ies for crit­i­cal process steps to solu­tion-ori­ented project sup­port, we are happy to help. >>CON­TACT OUR TEAM

16. Can more com­plex and chal­leng­ing appli­ca­tions such as assem­bly tasks or the pro­cess­ing of sur­faces be real­ized with ArtiMinds RPS?

Yes, with ArtiMinds +Vision you can imple­ment all appli­ca­tions that require a reac­tion to the results of image pro­cess­ing, e.g. such as pick and place. ArtiMinds +Force enables force-con­trolled, sen­sor-adap­tive appli­ca­tions such as sur­face pro­cess­ing, join­ing, assem­bling, search­ing or aligning.

17. Is it pos­si­ble to make sub­se­quent changes directly to the robot pro­gram (in the pro­gram­ming lan­guage of the robot man­u­fac­turer) with­out ArtiMinds RPS?

Yes, this is pos­si­ble at any time! ArtiMinds RPS gen­er­ates native pro­gram code that runs on the stan­dard con­troller of the robot man­u­fac­turer. This means that the pro­gram runs autonomously on the con­troller even with­out a con­nec­tion to ArtiMinds RPS and can be changed at any time in the native pro­gram­ming lan­guage. ArtiMinds also offers the option of inte­grat­ing native pro­gram code as a library or encap­su­lated in code tem­plates into the RPS program.

18. I need an inter­face to a cer­tain soft­ware envi­ron­ment. Does ArtiMinds for exam­ple sup­port ERP or qual­ity assur­ance software?

ArtiMinds has an HTML inter­face that can be used to con­nect other sys­tems to RPS. For details, please con­tact our sup­port >>GET IN CONTACT

19. Which addi­tional software/technology pack­ages from my robot man­u­fac­turer do I need if I want to use ArtiMinds software?

To use the ArtiMinds soft­ware solu­tions, tech­nol­ogy pack­ages from the respec­tive robot man­u­fac­tur­ers may be required. Down­load this >>PDF to check which addi­tional soft­ware for which ArtiMinds mod­ule will be needed from the respec­tive robot manufacturer.

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