Robotics

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NI Products for Robotics

NI LabVIEW

See how LabVIEW and graphical system design combine ease of use with power and expandability to serve a wide range of robotics applications, from programming LEGO® robots to creating advanced embedded controller applications.

NI LabVIEW for Control Design and Simulation

Take advantage of custom algorithm development, analysis, and visualization, as well as integration with NI hardware for rapid control prototyping. National Instruments offers a full suite of tools for system identification, control design, simulation, and controller implementation.

NI CompactRIO

Build advanced rugged systems incorporating software capabilities such as control, communication, data logging, and signal processing while performing logic, motion, process control, or vision acquisition in an open, flexible architecture on this FPGA-based embedded controller.

NI Motion

Explore NI motion control software and hardware, including high-performance motion controllers, drives, and motors that help simplify the development of motion control applications.

NI Vision

Learn about the NI machine vision platform, featuring hardware such as the NI Smart Camera with image processing on the sensor itself. Software components include image acquisition software, a world-class image processing library, and a configurable interface for industrial machine vision applications.