Visualization of automatization of (Epson) SCARA robot in Virtual Reality (VR)

Hello there!

I would like to make an animation of a Scara robot in Virtual reality. The main job of the robot would be to pick up a test tube move it with a grab head (remove their tip) with a test tube grabber/ pipetman G adapter. I am not sure about the software (model/mechanism) support for this adapter/head. (It is the topic of my bachelor's thesis)

I DON'T need a functional automatization with a G-code generator soo it ISN'T important for me to use manufacturing/automatization software, but there they usually have an educational license option.

I already found some software for it, like RobotStudio (but it is for ABB), Visual Components , or Simlab Composer for Sketchup (this one is only for an animation of a Scara .skp model) - but it would be hard to animate every component and connect those movements together. /ofc another option would be to use Unreal or Unity with reverse kinematics, but why.../

I know that this project is a little bit offtopic and it isn't fully a "top" industrial robot problem, but I haven't found anything out-of-the-box solution for my problem.

Thank you in advance!

Quote from Nation

Have you looked at this?

I checked this but I think it has a very limited library and it would be hard to add my specific gripper.

Quote from panic mode

also check RoboDK. i think it will easily do what you want and don't need any account, powerful pc etc.

It looks promising, I will try it. Thank you!

Quote from panic mode

we you would design your gripper in whatever software you like and then import it. did not play with Unity and Steam but i would expect that loading standard CAD model is not a problem.

in case of RoboDk you just drop it into main window and you can manipulate it...

Yeah, I already started to model the gripper part, but that particular software looks like a closed system with very few non-branded (6axis/delta) robots (sorry if I am wrong).

Now I decided to add my Epson robot to the ABB's Robotstudio (our school has some free licenses for students for it). VR in Robostudio

RoboDK looks promising but on the other hand, it has only a 30-day trial and I am not sure if it supports VR or not.

After all, I tried to realize my project with Robotstudio, but I haven't found out how to add the reverse kinematic to my robot. So I decided to give it a shot with RoboDK or Visual components.

I appreciate your help, thank you in advance ^^.