E-book from Hypertherm Associates covers standardization in robotic programming

Hypertherm Associates has released an e-book on the standardization of robotic languages from its Robotmaster brand of offline programming software for robots. “Achieving Standardization in Robot Programming,” features two technologies to address the market demands for a single universal robot programming system.

Despite the industry's rapid growth, there are various international standards in the field of robotics governing safety requirements, definitions and terminology, performance, and testing methods. However, there currently are no standard requirements regarding the programming languages used in programming.

The e-book addresses the challenges that arise from the lack of standard programming languages, envisions a world addressing these challenges, and explores why the problem exists while highlighting the technologies available in the market that can overcome these challenges.