Wizard easy programming is a graphical programming method designed to enable users to quickly create robot application programs for ABB’s single-arm YuMi collaborative robot, without the need for specialised training.
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This software is built on the concept of Blockly, an open-source visual coding method that presents programming language or code as interlocking blocks. By using this simplified approach, Wizard enables users to program and use the Single-Arm YuMi robot without prior programming language knowledge. A user can drag and drop these functions on the FlexPendant, see immediate results, and adjust the robot’s actions in seconds.
The software features essential robot functions covering a wide range of tasks. There are also functions for error handling, allowing novice programmers to troubleshoot. By simplifying the typically complex programming, Wizard can help any robot user develop highly effective programs.
Andie Zhang, ABB’s Global Product Manager for Collaborative Robotics, clarified: “To enable first-time robot users to realise the possibilities of automation, we’ve reduced the learning curve for new users by simplifying the programming of the Single-Arm YuMi with our new Wizard tool. This will help reduce the cost, time and skills required to implement collaborative automation.”
Unlike other types of easy programming software, Wizard is converted in real time into ABB’s RAPID programming language, giving Wizard easy programming the advantage to support advanced robot functions. Complex robot programs can be created by skilled robot programmers and then converted into a Wizard program for novice users.
Wizard is available as a pre-installed application on the FlexPendant device for all new Single-Arm YuMi robots after its release at the end of March. The Wizard easy programming software is available for free and the new software will also be made available to existing YuMi customers in the form of a free add-in that can be installed via RobotStudio to the FlexPendant.
