ARC
Program Robots in Hours Instead of Months
Synthiam ARC is the perfect platform for programming your robot dreams into reality! With our visual interface, even non-programmers can create sophisticated robot programs. The ARC Robot Skills Store has over seven hundred pre-built robot behaviors that you can use without building them yourself from scratch. You can also easily share robot skills with other users on the Skill Store!
Powering Over 3 Million Robots
Explore ARC programmed robots built by our community of robot builders from 100+ countries.
Use The Latest Technologies
Easily experiment with sensors, cloud services, and artificial intelligence with the click of the mouse.
ARC Downloads
Teams FREE
Free
- Includes 1 free plugin robot skill per project
- Community support
- Free with trial limitations
For schools, personal use & organizations. This edition is updated every 6-9 months.
Early Access
As Low as $8.99/mo
- 2 or more PCs simultaneously
- Includes unlimited skills
- Premium support
- And much more
Experience the latest features and bug fixes weekly. A Pro subscription is required to use this edition.
Runtime FREE
Free
- Load and run any ARC project
- Operates in read-only mode
- Unlimited robot skills
- Early access fixes & features
Have you finished programming your robot? Use this to run existing ARC projects for free.
- Minimum requirements are Windows 10 or higher with 2+gb ram and 500+MB free space.
- Get more information about each ARC edition by clicking here.
- See what's new in the latest versions with Release notes.
Compare Editions
| Feature | ARC Teams FREE |
ARC PRO |
|---|---|---|
| Get ARC for Free | View Plans | |
| Usage | Personal DIY Education |
Personal DIY Education Business |
| Premium support | $14.99/ticket (optional) |
✓ 1 request/month ($9.99 for additional requests) |
| Feature requests | ✓ Yes | |
| Early access to new features & fixes | ✓ Yes | |
| 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 recongition phrases* | 10 | ✓ Unlimited |
| Camera devices* | 1 | ✓ Unlimited |
| Vision resolution | max 320x240 | ✓ Unlimited |
| Interface builder* | 2 | ✓ Unlimited |
| Cloud project size | ✓ 128 MB | |
| Cloud project revision history | ✓ Yes | |
| Create Exosphere requests | ✓ 50/month | |
| Exosphere API access | Contact Us | |
| Volume license discounts | Contact Us | |
| Get ARC for Free | View Plans |
** 1,000 per cognitive type (vision recognition, speech recognition, face detection, sentiment, text recognition, emotion detection)
Make Robots Smarter
Add Robot Skills with the click of a mouse. Vision recognition, artificial intelligence, speech recognition, and hundreds more.
Speech Recognition
Use speech to command robot products. Add custom phrases and actions to create an unique personality.
Computer Vision
Experience the latest in machine vision. Such as object, color, emotion, and more!
Hundreds more...
The robot skill store has hundreds of available Robot Skills to help learn how to make a robot smarter.
Rapid Robot Development
Use easy and powerful robot programming languages, such as Javascript, Python, C# .Net, C++, Blockly and RoboScratch.
Hardware Agnostic
Extend the power of existing robot products or build your own.
Mobile Apps
Design mobile apps for robots with the interface designer.
Sensors
Combine smart avoidance controls to give robots autonomous compatibilities.
Compatible Robot Hardware
- What is an EZB?
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An EZB is any robot, computer, or microcontroller that accepts connections from Synthiam's ARC software to control servos, sensors, and more.
Below is a list of EZB compatible products. Each supported hardware has a manual to help you learn how to make a robot with it.
Additionally, the support section has a fantastic tutorial to get started.
Robot Building Tutorial
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