Change Release Notes
We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to bring you another awesome update! This version of ARC is packed with performance improvements, optimizations, and smarter features to enhance your robot-building experience. Check out what’s new and improved!
Major Improvements & Fixes
Enhanced Help Hover
- The blue question mark help bubble now stays visible longer when hovered over, making it easier to read important information.
Supercharged Face Tracking & Detection!
- The built-in camera’s face tracking now runs at half the CPU usagefrom 7% down to 3.5%! This means smoother tracking and better performance across the board.
Project & Skill History Gets an Upgrade
- New Project History Manager keeps track of changes more efficiently.
- New Skill History Manager brings performance and stability improvements to ensure a smoother experience.
Optimized GUI & System Services
- Significant memory optimizations to the GUI service, making everything feel snappier.
- Fixes for an internal function mapping issue that could rarely cause a divide by zero exception.
Robot Skill Configuration Enhancements
- Robot skill XML configuration can now define whether multiple instances are allowed in a project (default is FALSE).
- Existing robot skills must be updated to allow multiple instances if required!
Remote Access & Camera Improvements
- Remote access service now uses a memory stream pool for better efficiency.
- EZ-B v4 & UART video camera services optimized for smoother operation.
- Fixed a rare memory stream disposal issue that could affect the camera driver.
Bing Speech Recognition Enhancements
- Now correctly returns the pause checkbox value with
GetPause. - Wakeword detection now respects the pause settingif pause is checked, it won’t listen!
Smarter Audio Commands
Audio.SayWait()now cancels speech when the calling script stopsno more waiting for long text to finish playing!
Navigation & Movement Fixes
- Navigation Messenger optimized for better efficiency.
- Built-in Movement Panels now correctly show the default speed in settings on load.
- The default ARC movement speed is now 127 (out of 255) instead of 0 when first launched.
Updated Resources & Tutorials
- The "Getting Started - Make a Robot" tutorial link has been updated to provide the best learning experience for new users!
Final Thoughts
This update makes ARC faster, more reliable, and easier to use! Whether you're working with face tracking, speech recognition, scripting, or movement panels, you’ll notice smoother performance and smarter behavior.
Update now and take your robots to the next level!
Let us know what you think of this updateyour feedback helps us make ARC even better!
Happy robot building!
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Thanks again for all your work
Bing Speech Recognition pause is working now.
Thanks for the fix.
Hi everyone,
I really appreciate the kind words!
It's fantastic to hear from Herr_Ball that the Bing Speech Recognition pause fix is working for you, and thanks for your continued support, EzAng.
If there’s anything else you need or any other feedback on ARC, feel free to ask. Your input helps us improve and make ARC even better!
Happy robot building!
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