Announcing the UR Developer Suite: Your Comprehensive Robotics Development Toolkit

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Dear Community,

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the UR Developer Suite, an all-encompassing collection of tools designed to streamline and enhance your development process with Universal Robots.

The UR Developer Suite provides everything you need in one centralized platform, whether you are developing URCaps, adapting end-effectors, or integrating hardware. This suite is poised to revolutionize the way you build and deploy solutions with our robots.

Key features of the UR Developer Suite include:

  • Integrated Tools: Convenient access to all necessary tools for your projects, from development to deployment.
  • URCaps Development: Simplified creation and customization of URCaps.
  • End-Effector Adaptation: Easy adaptation and management of various end-effectors for diverse tasks.
  • Hardware Integration: Seamless integration and control of hardware components.

For more information, please visit our official page: UR Developer Suite

We believe this suite will be an invaluable resource for anyone involved in robotics development. We look forward to hearing your feedback and seeing the innovative projects that emerge from using the UR Developer Suite.

Happy creating and innovating! :rocket::mechanical_arm:

Best regards,

The Universal Robots Team

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This tool looks great. If I go to this link, how do I then get to the tool? The information page seems to lack the information on how to get the tool.

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This doesn’t seem to be a Real Launch, as the program isn’t actually available.
More accurately, this seems to be an Announcement.

I am looking forward to when this is actually available in any capacity.

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Some of the tools I have found useful, that are already up;

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Hey guys,

I hope to be able to address some of your questions (as the responsible Product Manager).
The Developer Suite is an initiative that we have made to do the following things:

  1. Gather all existing developer tools and documentation in 1 place. Tools and documentation are fairly scattered today, especially across different use cases like hardware integration, and communication protocols to SDK and API references etc. We want to create an easy-to-use gateway to collect all of this.

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  1. Create a clearer developer path for new developers to UR, by providing guides and documentation. Maybe even make you aware of an interface or function that you didn’t know beforehand.

  2. Provide you guys with better tooling and documentation, by creating a tighter feedback loop, which is more community-driven. Bundling together all of our developer tools across HW and SW into 1 product makes it a lot easier to prioritize things, and I hope to deliver the first improvements soon. Internally, we will also couple the responsible dev teams to their “own tools” to ensure we’re updating and improving as the platform changes.

In the end, launching the Developer Suite is just the first step, towards a much better world of being a UR developer in. We have a lot of great stuff in the pipeline, which will come in the following months, so I hope you’ll be patient, bring forth your requests, and stay with us for the ride. I promise it’ll be worth it.

And if you have any immediate feedback on what you’d like to see more of, please DM me or let me know in the comments.

/Søren

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