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Wlkata Firmware Upgrade

Mirobot robotic arm firmware upgrade :

Method 1

1. Turn on the robot arm and plug the USB cable into the robot arm.

2. Open WLKATA Studio, enter Settings , select Mirobot and click Update Firmware .

Mirobot robotic arm firmware upgrade :

Method 2

1. Turn on the robot arm and plug the USB cable into the robot arm.

2. Find the “updatehex” folder in the root directory of “WlkataStudio”. As shown in Figure 17-5.

3. After opening “updatehex”, find “XLoader” and open it. As shown in Figure 17-6.

4. Open ” XLoader ” and select the latest robot arm firmware downloaded . As shown in Figure 17-7.

5. After selecting the arm firmware , click the ” Upload ” option. As shown in Figure 17-8.

Multifunction controller firmware upgrade :

Method 1

1. Turn on the robotic arm and plug the USB cable into the multi-function controller .

2. Find the “controlbox” folder in the root directory of “WlkataStudio”. As shown in Figure 17-10.

3. Open the folder “controlbox”, find and open the folder “bin file”. As shown in Figure 17-11

4. Double-click to open the folder “binfile”, as shown in Figure 17-12(1). Then put the firmware you just downloaded into it, delete the old version of the firmware, and only keep the latest firmware. As shown in Figure 17-12(2).

5. Open WLKATA Studio, enter the settings , click update firmware behind the multi-function controller firmware .

Method 2

1.. Turn on the robotic arm and plug the USB cable into the multi-function controller .

2. Install “flash_download_tool_3.8.8” and open the software.

3. After opening the software, a window will pop up, as shown in Figure 17-15.

Select ” ESP32 ” in the “Chip Type” column , as shown in Figure 17-16(1)

Select ” factory ” in the “Work Mode” column , as shown in Figure 17-16(2).

Click ” ok ” to go to the next step

4. The page is now locked and needs to be manually unlocked. Uncheck ” LOCK SETTINGS “. As shown in Figure 17-17.

The red box is the multi-function controller firmware (c-), and the blue box is the Bluetooth teach pendant firmware (t-). Here we don’t consider the teach pendant, only choose the controller. The address below is 0x00 by default .

Select the downloaded latest multi-function controller firmware to load

Select the robot port , and select 921600 as the baud rate . Figure 17-19

Then click the ” Start ” button. Figure 17-20