Download & Install Robots for Grasshopper
Instructions on how to download & install the Robots plugin for Grasshopper
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Instructions on how to download & install the Robots plugin for Grasshopper
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Robots is the plugin the MSD Robotics Lab uses to program some robotic fabrication processes such as Ceramic 3D Printing.
To use our scripts we recommend you have Rhino 7 installed on Windows 10 or 11. If you don't have Rhino 8 you can download a 90 day trial from:
You can technically use Rhino for Mac, however we strongly recommend using it on Windows. It is likely that some of the plugins we use in the scripts that will be provided to you won't run on Mac. Additionally, ABB RobotStudio does not run on Mac. Unfortunately, we are unable to support Mac versions of the plugins and our scripts at this time. Note: If you are using Rhino 8, we recommend that you check the compatibility of the Grasshopper script through rhino4food.com as most are only available with Rhino 7 and earlier.
You can download Robots plugin from your Rhino _Package Manager. Or alternatively use the food4rhino website.
Download the latest Robots plugin for Grasshopper. Select the Robots2025.1.zip in the latest release (as of 06/03/2025). You do not need to download the source code.
Use _Package Manager command in Rhino, type in Robot to find the plug-in. Click install and restart Rhino to initiate the plug-in. Note: If you have issues with the Robot libraries not appearing, after using _Package Manager to install, copy the downloaded Robot plugin files using the following steps. This creates a copy of in the Robots library on your local drive.
Open Grasshopper, open file (1), special folders (2) then components folder (3).
Drag Robots.dll and Robots.gha into this folder.
Search for your local drive to locate these files and copy to the below address.
Make sure to unblock the *.dll and *.gha files. Please see these links for more details:
Place the unimelb.3dm and unimelb.xml into a folder called "Robots" in the Documents folder.
You will need to make this folder yourself as it won't already exist. Replace USERNAME with your computer's username.
Make sure you folder you place the unimelb.3dm and unimelb.xml files in has a capital 'R' i.e. 'Robots'. As shown in the image below.
You will need to install the following plugins for our scripts as well (Note: Chromodoris is not supported in Rhino 8, however the script still runs without it but will show errors):
