# Robot Programmer

Deliver automation without the complexity – Build, Validate and Program with Robot Programmer

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### ## What is Robot Programmer?

The Robot Programmer role enables users to simulate and validate robot tasks to eliminate errors before implementation. Whether you’re looking to fully automate a system or add a robot (cobot) to work collaboratively with an operator, robots using advanced programming can automate repetitive tasks, delivering benefits that will be seen immediately.

Benefits include:

- Reuse current production robot programs to accelerate changes and adjustments in existing cells
- Offline programming software so users can develop and test robotic programs without halting production
- Seamless SOLIDWORKS integration and connection to the **3D**EXPERIENCE platform
- User-friendly UI tailored to advanced robotics programming needs
- Visualize robotic functions in real-time to catch potential issues early and reduce costly errors down the line

## Key Benefits of Robot Programmer

### End-to-End Digital Continuity

The **3D**EXPERIENCE platform offers a unified platform that connects various stages of the product lifecycle, facilitating seamless collaboration and ensuring digital continuity from design through manufacturing to service.

### Improved Collaboration

The platform facilitates collaboration among multidisciplinary teams, allowing designers, engineers, and other stakeholders to plan, simulate, and optimize a wide range of **robot applications** in a shared environment.

This can lead to enhanced communication, faster decision-making, and a more integrated approach to product development.

### Efficient Digital Manufacturing

SOLIDWORKS extended digital manufacturing solutions, including robot simulation and virtual validation tools, help streamline production processes and workflows, reduce costs, and minimize the need for physical prototypes.

### ## Robot Programmer

Whether you're an engineer optimizing factory automation or a designer innovating the next generation of robotic systems, Robot Programmer empowers you to do more. Experience a solution tailored to the challenges of modern robotics based on the **3D**EXPERIENCE platform.

### Offline Programming Keeps Production Flowing

- Use the “Autoplace” function to determine **your robot's optimal placement**, ensuring it can reach everywhere you need it without getting in the way.
- Ability to **program robots offline**, so you can keep your production equipment running while making tweaks to the robot program.
- Over **2,000 different robot kinematic models** are supported, allowing modification to robotic paths in a simulated environment to optimize movement and ensure collision-free operation.
- **Quickly calculate the loading of pallets** based on the size and weight of the packages

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### Implement Faster with Fewer Errors

**Program and validate robotic toolpaths directly from any 3D CAD model** while maintaining a link to engineering design changes

- Programmers can **visualize and intuitively edit robot programs directly in 3D** by directly interacting with the 3D model
- New **Material Handling Assistant** guides the user through each phase of the workcell setup
- The ability to perform multiple “what if” scenarios virtually to **find the optimal solution**
- **Validate tooling design with industrial robots** in the same environment
- **Ability to simulate all automation accessories** within a work cell

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### Connection to the **3D**EXPERIENCE platform

- **Design, simulate, and manage** the entire lifecycle of your robotic system, all within one secure cloud-based environment
- Validate and **verify virtual processes before sending** to the physical robot and system
- **Manage complex compliance documentation** and ensure high-quality designs with built-in controls
- **Shorten time to market** with seamless collaboration, advanced simulation and agile development
- **Reduce IT costs** and remain competitive by continuously updating and **integrating the latest technologies**
- Assures your business is **protected against cybersecurity threats**

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### Master Industrial Robotics with Robot Programmer

Explore this five-part, hands-on video series to learn how to design, simulate, and program industrial robotic workcells efficiently with Robot Programmer.

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