Hypertherm Associates Family
Robotmaster® is part of the Hypertherm Associates family, a 100% employee-owned company composed of the industrial cutting technologies and solutions you know and trust—plasma, waterjet, software, and more—to help our customers succeed like never before. With a consistency of purpose, a drive to innovate, and a passion for customer success, Hypertherm Associates is leading the industrial cutting and shaping industry.
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Our Story
Robotmaster helps manufacturers maximize their productivity by designing easy and efficient industrial robot programming. Our leading off-line programming software provides quick and easy programming tools for multiple applications, saving time and money while maximizing return on investment.
Unwilling to accept the prevailing industry belief that teaching was the best way to program industrial robots, we set out to show the industry that off-line programming powered by CAD/CAM software was the key to productivity and quality.
We unveiled the first version of Robotmaster CAD/CAM robotic software in 2002. An overwhelmingly positive response from robot integrators and manufacturers proved we were on the right track. This led us to combine our expertise in CAD/CAM software development with applied mathematics and robot kinematics to perfect and extend the suite of functionalities found in Robotmaster software.
We have continued to evolve our industrial robotic software, expanding to support a vast array of industrial robots across multiple industries. Today Robotmaster-powered robots are adept at jobs such as trimming and cutting, robotic machining, deburring, welding, polishing, sanding, painting and more.
The capabilities of Robotmaster have not gone unnoticed, winning praise and accolades from customers and media alike. The software’s ability to make the programming of industrial robots fast, easy, and efficient earned it the Game Changer Award for Motion Control at the 2013 RoboBusiness Conference. In 2015, CIO Review Magazine named us to its list of the 20 most promising robotics solutions providers.
Robotmaster History
2002
First implementation of 6-Axis Programming with Robotmaster V1
2003
First applied to Faunuc, Motoman, and Staubli robots
2004
Focus on trimming and milling
2005
Kinematics capabilities added
2008
Optimization functionality is introduced
2011
Robotmaster v5 released implements workspaces analysis and optimization of external axes
2013
Robotmaster interactive similulation environment (RISE) is released - RBR Game Changer Awards winner
2014
CIO Review Top 10 Engineering Design Solutions Provider
2015
Robotmaster joins the Hypertherm family. CIO Top 20 Robotics Solutions Provider
Our Team
We are 100% robot focused. Our growing multi-disciplinary team of researchers, developers and engineers continue to carry out research to bring innovative and novel tools to enable enhanced robot performance in a growing range of applications.
We have assembled an exceptional team of experts and practitioners in the areas of kinematics, mathematical optimization, simulation and CAD/CAM algorithms to name a few. These math and physics principles form the foundation for our solutions.
As the leading robot programming solutions innovator, the Robotmaster team is committed to developing quick and easy programming tools for the robotics and manufacturing industries.
Equally important, we have created strategic alliances with major players in the robot manufacturing industry to assure the delivery of seamlessly integrated, leading-edge solutions to our customers.