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Autonomous Robotics

From autonomous vehicles to mobile systems, NI LabVIEW and CompactRIO provide a standard software and hardware development platform for designing your robotic system. This graphical software environment and embedded hardware platform is specifically ideal for roboticists designing and prototyping:

  • Autonomous and semiautonomous vehicles, including agricultural and military systems
  • Underwater and aerial vehicles
  • Personal and service robots
  • Medical robotic devices

Robotics Resources

Graphical System Design for Autonomous Vehicles

Watch this 28-minute webcast featuring the third-place Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge winner, Odin, the autonomous car powered by LabVIEW and developed by Team Victor Tango, a collaboration between Virginia Tech and TORC Technologies.

A Look into an Unmanned Ground Vehicle Using NI Single-Board RIO

Learn how to efficiently design, prototype, and deploy an unmanned ground vehicle with NI Single-Board RIO and LabVIEW.

Did You Know LabVIEW Could Drive a Car?

Read details about the third-place DARPA Urban Challenge winner, the autonomous car powered by LabVIEW and developed by Team Victor Tango.

Additional Resources

NI Product Offerings

NI Embedded Software Evaluation Kit

Purchase a step-by-step evaluation kit for building field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based and FPGA/microprocessor-based applications with LabVIEW and NI Single-Board RIO.

NI Single-Board RIO Embedded Devices

Get your custom embedded systems to market quickly with NI Single-Board RIO, which features an open, embedded architecture; small size; and flexibility.

NI LabVIEW Vision Development Module

Acquire, save, and display images with NI Vision Acquisition Software, which works with thousands of cameras and includes all of the tools you need.