Episode 78: SWORD™ User-friendly Robotics Toolkit

Technology Today

Southwest Research Institute

Technology

4.8 • 19 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The SwRI Workbench for Offline Robotics Development™ (SWORD™) is simplifying robotics motion planning. The user-friendly software allows developers to flow from computer aided design (CAD) to robotics management with ease. Robotics are used in manufacturing and other industries for “dull, dirty, dangerous” tasks. When designers move out of CAD for the next phase of product development, they often encounter complicated robotics software. SWORD works with CAD, allowing users to stay in a familiar software environment, making robotics more accessible and streamlining workflow. Listen now as SwRI SWORD developers Matt Robinson and Michael Ripperger discuss SWORD capabilities, how the software fits into the production puzzle and how it could benefit businesses, consumers and patients.

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0:00.0	SWRI is simplifying robotics, bringing a user-friendly robot programming solution to a range of industries, manufacturing, retail, health care, and more.
0:11.0	We'll explain how the SWRI workbench for offline robotics development or sword is making complex robotics systems more accessible and easier to use and what that
0:23.0	could mean for consumers and patients. That's next on this episode of Technology Today.
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1:01.4	Hello and welcome to technology today. I'm Lisa Benia.
1:04.7	SWRI has developed a user-friendly robotics toolkit.
1:09.4	So what does that mean?
1:12.7	Let's think about manufacturing.
1:19.2	Engineers and designers use computer-aided design software or CAD to create product models.
1:24.7	Then they are forced out of familiar territory, shifting to other software to implement robotics for product assembly to build their designs in the real world.
1:28.5	The SWRI workbench for offline robotics development or sword cuts out the need for complicated
1:35.6	robotic software and coding, working directly in CAD, a platform designers already know.
1:42.6	This user-friendly solution for entry-level developers enables
1:46.9	more people and industries to utilize advanced robotics. We'll talk about the potential impact
1:53.3	to consumers and patients in a moment. Our guest today are SWRI SORD Developers Senior Program
2:00.0	Manager Matt Robinson and Senior Research engineer Michael Ripperger.
2:04.3	Thank you for joining us, Matt and Michael.
2:06.4	Thanks, Lisa.
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