Introduction to NI LabVIEW Robotics
LabVIEW Robotics is a software package that provides a complete suite of tools to help you rapidly design sophisticated robotics systems for medical, agricultural, automotive, research, and military applications. The LabVIEW Robotics bundle includes all of the functionality you need from multicore real-time and FPGA design capabilities to vision, motion, control design, and simulation functionality.

RIO-based Medical Machine Design
Jeff Stevens from Sanarus Medical, Inc. demonstrates how his company designed, prototyped, and deployed a control system for an innovative medical machine using NI CompactRIO.

Prototyping Faster with Graphical System Design
Prototyping is a crucial part of the embedded design process. The ability to demonstrate and show your idea functioning to investors, customers and management is a great way to get your idea into someone's budget. National Instruments graphical system design tools have proven useful for getting a functional prototype working quickly without requiring a large design team. NI LabVIEW graphical programming tools can program ready-to-run NI hardware with built-in processors, FPGAs and I/O to prototype medical, green, robotics and industrial machine control applications faster.

Get Your Design Right the First Time
Engineers and scientists use virtual prototyping to design, optimize, validate, and visualize their products digitally and evaluate different design concepts before incurring the cost of physical prototypes. NI SoftMotion for SolidWorks enables mechanical and control engineers to collaborate and gives them a way to assess the operation of moving parts. This enables them to visualize realistic machine operations, estimate the cycle time throughput, determine whether the product will fail and delivers important information about the dynamic behavior of the design.

Introduction to CompactRIO Programmable Automation Controller (PAC)
This short three minute multimedia presentation introduces the National Instruments CompactRIO system, the reconfigurable embedded control and acquisition system. This video describes the rugged hardware architecture of the CompactRIO system including the I/O modules, reconfigurable FPGA chassis and the real-time controller. Additionally, you'll see how CompactRIO is programmed with LabVIEW graphical programming tools and learn about the variety of embedded control and monitoring applications CompactRIO is suited for.

Introduction to Mechatronics
Mechatronics is a system-level approach to designing electromechanical systems that merges mechanical, electrical, control system, and embedded software design. It represents an industry-wide effort to improve the design process by integrating the best available development practices and technologies to streamline design, prototyping, and deployment. If you design industrial machinery, equipment, vehicles, or other devices with moving parts and electronically controlled actuators, mechatronics technology may help you lower development costs, reduce risk, and produce higher-quality products. View this webcast to lean about the Mechatronics approach to machine design.