National Instruments’ LabVIEW has been used with robots for decades. It mostly has been employed by developers looking to take advantage of graphical programming tools (see “LabVIEW: Graphical Programming”).
LabVIEW also was the underlying platform for the popular Lego Mindstorms robots (see “The Mind Of Mindstorms”). Lego Mindstorms (Fig. 1) spawned a generation of kids playing with robots from an early age. It remains the basis for the FIRST Lego League robotics competition (see “Future Engineers Brace For Battle Of The Robots”).
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