KUKA KRC4 + AI: Redefining the Role of Robot Programmers

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Quote from kwakisaki

From an industrial robot perspective, I respectfully and 100% disagree.

OEM's appear to be maintaining their proprietary languages and will continue to do so.

Below represents my opinion only:

I think the new generation (people) today miss out on learning the 'birth' of industrial robotics and have been catapulted into a world of evolving software that represents programming industrial robots in a very limited and different way, but not promoting the underlying proprietary languages used.

I draw you back in time to the backbone of industrial robotics with keywords like:

- Unimation.

- PUMA

- VAL

Take this video from 1981, you can see clearly applications shown still exist in manufacturing today.

Not to mention the fundamentals:

PUMA...The Leading Edge in Robotic Technology | Hagley Digital Archives

From this:

- Kawasaki Robotics was born - AS Language (from VAL) and is still used and further developed today.

- Staubli Robotics - VAL3 language (from VAL) and is still used and being further developed today.

- Fanuc - Karel language is still being used today, but not too sure if it is still being further developed.

- ABB - RAPID, I do not quite know the history, but is still being used and further developed today.

- KUKA - KRL, I do not quite know the history, but is still being used and further developed today.

So this statement in my opinion as far as industrial robotics is not entirely accurate.

However, I acknowledge we are and continue to be part of an evolving industry, but the reliance on the original proprietary languages are likely to still remain a major part of this industry.

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I was speaking about computer languages in general.
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Quote from kwakisaki

KUKA - KRL, I do not quite know the history, but is still being used and further developed today.

At the beginning, KUKA robots was using SINUMERIC controler from Siemens (RCM). The KRL is issue from the Siemens Language.

I don't mind giving parameters but every year there is a new computer language to learn, it gets super annoying.