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Release 2013.12.18.00

Desktop — Windows

ARC Release

ARC (Autonomous Robot Control) is Synthiam's flagship desktop robot programming platform. Build, program, and control any robot with powerful AI, 500+ plugins, and a visual no-code interface — all from your PC.

🤖 500+ Robot Plugins
🧠 AI & Machine Learning
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🖥️ Windows 10 or 11

Change Release Notes

This latest release of ARC has a pretty big change. We have upgraded to Visual Studio 2013 and a bunch of things have changed from VS 2010. Let me know if you have any installation issues...

Warning: This is a very beta installer. Only upgrade to this version if you are volunteering to help debug the installation issues

*Note: You must uninstall the previous ARC version before installing this

  1. Visit Control Panel
  2. select Programs and Features
  3. Select ARC in the list and uninstall
  4. Reboot
  5. Install the latest version
  • Updated GUI with flat buttons

  • Connection control has Scan and Web config buttons for EZ-B v4


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ARC

FREE
$0 always free
  • 1 third-party plugin skill per project
  • Trial cloud services
  • Personal, DIY & education use
  • Updated every 6–12 months
Recommended

ARC

PRO
$8.99 per month
  • Use on 2+ PCs simultaneously
  • Unlimited robot skills
  • Cloud backup & revision history
  • Weekly features & bug fixes
  • Business use permitted

ARC

RUNTIME
$0 always free
  • Load & run any ARC project
  • Read-only mode
  • Unlimited robot skills
  • Includes early access fixes & features
  • Minimum requirements: Windows 10 or higher, 2 GB RAM, 500 MB free disk space.
  • Recommended: Windows 10 or higher, 8 GB RAM, 1 GB free disk space.
  • Prices are in USD.
  • More about each edition: Download & install guide.
  • Latest changes: Release notes.

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Simultaneous microcontroller connections * 1 255
Robot skills * 20 Unlimited
Skill Store plugins * 1 Unlimited
Cognitive services usage ** 10 / day 6,000 / day
Auto-positions gait actions * 40 Unlimited
Speech recognition phrases * 10 Unlimited
Camera devices * 1 Unlimited
Vision resolution max 320×240 Unlimited
Interface builder * 2 Unlimited
Cloud project size 128 MB
Cloud project revision history
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** 1,000 per cognitive type: vision recognition, speech recognition, face detection, sentiment, text recognition, emotion detection, azure text to speech


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#17  

@Robot-Doc question do you have ms office 2010 installed? @DJ question no ms office?

j

#18  

jdebay I have a license for MS Office 2003 and that's what is installed on this machine, Win-7 32 bit. Also installed Windows update for .net 4.5.1

#19  

@Robot-Doc the reason I asked was I have ms visual studio 10. installed. And I think that installed with office 2010. j

#20  

I do have Visual Studio 2012 installed as well as VS 2012 Express.

#21  

@DJ Sures... It is installing, I just can not read current projects. I can make a new project and test it, but unable to save it. I have ms visual 10 install. I notice @Rich does not and all is fine with him. I can send install.log if that will help? j

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#22  

The installer is not installing the dependency files. I have isolated the issue - now I need to resolve it.

I'm confused of why Microsoft would have removed the Setup and Deployment feature from Visual Studio 2013. Install Shield is really buggy, bloated and has a confusing setup process. After doing some google searches, it seems there are countless number of people who are upset at Microsoft for removing that feature...

We will get through this guys!:D

#23  

@DJ Sures that is great news. I am here to install the latest, you are the man.

j

#24  

I have always (back as far as vb5) preferred MS Deployment over Installshield even when I had access to an enterprise license of Installshield. The MS tool was simple and effective. Tbe only Installshield feature I thought had any value was the ability to have it pull missing components from a local or Internet server rather than including them in my distribution package, so my packages could be smaller. But, that required Internet acess during the installation and caused problems for some of my enterprise customers, so I wound up always including the components anyway.

Alan