Development environment

To start building robots, you need a development environment.

Robocorp Lab

Robocorp Lab includes everything you need to get started. You can create a new robot, run it locally, and publish it to Control Room. You do not need to set up and manage your Python environment(s) manually. Robocorp Lab creates a separate Conda environment for each of your robots. This way, the dependencies of your robot will not end up polluting your system Python setup.

You can create a new robot in Robocorp Lab right from the welcome screen, and get coding straight away:

Visual Studio Code extensions

With the Robocorp extension for VS Code, you can create a new robot, run it locally, and publish it to Control Room.

The Robot Framework Language Server extension provides code completion, syntax validation and highlighting, code formatting, and other powerful robot development features.