## 4 The Cobot Programming and Control Sales Pitch
### Cobot Vendors' Perspectives on Their Programming Applications  
In this section, a selection of claims and statements in the leading cobot vendors' product description material has been quoted on the program and control attributes of their cobot interfaces aimed at untrained users (refer to Table 7). The claims made by the cobot vendors will be used to estimate programming effectiveness and intuitiveness from the perspective of the intended user. **1. Universal Robots (PolyScope) [60]**  
\"Use your process expertise and PolyScope's graphical interface to create a robust automation system. No Code? No Problem.\"  
\"PolyScope connects operators to robots for efficient and productive automation. You don't need coding experience to automate your processes.\"  
\"Build programs by selecting nodes from a menu and placing them in order of operation. Each node represents an instruction for the robot and its parameters can be configured.\"  
**2. ABB (Wizard) [62]**  
\"Wizard easy programming--An easy and intuitive way to program cobots and Industrial robots.\"  
\"Program your robot application within minutes! Wizard is an easy graphical programming interface for ABB Cobots.\"  
\"With Wizard, anyone and everyone can program their robot application.\"  
\"Only a few minutes after the installation you will be able to operate your robot. With Wizard's easy drag and drop blockly based programming software, no specialized training or programming skills are required.\"  
**3. Fanuc (TP) [65]**  
\"But the CRX's #1 \"Ease of Use\" benefit is its Simple Drag and Drop Programming. 30 years ago, robot programming was a high-level structured language like Fortran or C++. An engineer or maintenance technician went to school to learn how to learn the programming language. Both are very powerful, but not easy to use. With the all new FANUC CRX Tablet Teach Pendant-simple programming becomes reality. Easily program and teach points with the CRX Tablet Teach Pendant. The drag and drop interface for lead-through teaching and simple programming is easy with no prior robotic experience needed.\"  
**4. Festo (Festo Robotic Suite for BionicCobot) [66]**  
\"Programming a robot is child's play\"  
\"The BionicCobot is operated intuitively via a graphic user interface developed in-house.\"  
\"Commissioning and programming are intuitive, quick and easy with the \"Robotic Suite\" software.\"  
\"The developers were focusing specifically on making the Robotic Suite, the actual heart of the cobot, as simple to operate as possible so there is no need for prior programming knowledge.\"  
\"When it comes to programming, most of us probably think about complicated lines of code with lots of abbreviations, brackets and other symbols. But programming a robot can actually be very easy, as is shown by the software that Festo developed for its pneumatic lightweight robot, the BionicCobot.\"  
**5. Kuka (iiQKA OS) [67]**  
\"iiQKA allows you to put together your individual automation package, without any prior knowledge or programming experience.\"  
\"The intuitive graphical interface allows for fully autonomous control of the system without any programming knowledge.\"  
\"Designed for quick start-up with little to no expertise, iiQKA offers incredible speed to integrate robots.\"