Robotics collaboration

National Instruments is collaborating its LabVIEW software with MobileRobots’ MobileRobotsindoors autonomous mobile platforms to help engineers deploy service robot applications.

Engineers working on robotics applications are often challenged to assemble a solution from the myriad software and hardware tools that offer niche functionality and limited or no integration with other platforms.

This collaboration gives engineers an integrated robotics development platform.

MobileRobotsindoors is a general-purpose platform that helps non-programmers customise and install autonomous robots for applications such as couriers, guides, kiosks and inspectors. The robots also offer easy interoperability with third-party vendors.

It is the basis for numerous robotics companies’ autonomous robotics solutions.

LabVIEW delivers graphical programming that makes it easy to add accessories, including manipulators, sensors and other task-specific components, to robots with MobileRobotsindoors and to rapidly integrate these robots or robot fleets into an automation environment such as factories, clinical labs or facility security systems.