Robpod Studio 1.3.6: Background Tasks Bring a Parallel Python Runtime to Your Robot

Release 1.3.6 introduces Background Task for Universal Robots and Doosan Robotics, plus a faster task-selection workflow on the Doosan teach pendant and a new license auto-deactivation option. Background Task With new Robpos Studio release 1.2.6 Background Tasks can be developed and deployed. A Background Task is a standard Python script that runs in parallel with…

What’s the real cost of programming your cobot?

Collaborative robots have made automation accessible to companies that could never justify a full industrial robotics setup. But buying the robot is only step one. Turning a cobot into a working application — one that an operator can actually run on the shop floor — carries a second, often underestimated cost: programming and integration. What…

Robpod AI CoWorker: Your New Cobot Colleague ??

Robots have been assembling cars, welding frames, and picking parts for decades. But for just as long, they’ve been stuck doing exactly — and only — what a programmer told them to do. Step outside the script? Not a chance That era is ending. Welcome to the age of Physical AI — where robots don’t…

Robpod Studio 1.3.4: PolyscopeX Support, UR18, and ChatGPT for Your Cobot

Three big updates just landed in Robpod Studio. Here’s everything you need to know. Robpod Studio 1.3.4 is out, and this release isn’t just bug fixes and minor tweaks — it’s a proper step forward. We’re talking full Universal Robots PolyscopeX support, a brand new robot model in simulation with the UR18, and a ChatGPT…