Virtual Robot Quickstart

Virtual Robot > Quickstart

The Virtual Robot Interface

Introduction

Virtual Robot provides a simple to use web based tool for content creation on EA robots like RoboThespian and Socibot.

This page is a jargon free quickstart guide to creating and transferring an animation to your robot, aimed at new users.

Logging in

All EA robots are shipped with a basic Virtual Robot account enabled you can access it at http://virtual.robothespian.co.uk, login required.

You may want to open your Virtual Robot in another window while you read these pages.

If you don't know your Virtual Robot login details contact Engineered Arts Ltd

Please use Chrome or Chromium browser. If you really want to know why, you can read about it on this page - Remote_Connection

You should be greeted by this page:

Note: for best results use a 1440 x 900 or higher resolution screen. 1920 x 1080, or 1920 x 1200 preferred.

Selecting your robot model

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  Select Robot Model: 1 - click on Robot, 2 - select model

1. Click on "robot"
2. Select robot model from the list

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  Select Robot Model (Close up): 1 - click on Robot, 2 - select model

Starting a new performance (animation)

Note that the terms animation, performance and sequence are used interchangeably. Sequence = animation = performance.

Next steps

Get a deeper understanding of the interface and the terminology used in the Virtual Robot Interface & Environment

Then explore the links at the bottom of that page to create more complex animations, animate multiple robots in sync and learn about Virtual Robot in more depth.