By James Schnarr, Senior Product Manager

The September 2025 OCTOPUZ release brings both smarter automation and meaningful updates shaped by customer feedback. We’ve improved core workflows and delivered enhancements that make robot programming faster and easier, to streamline your workflow and boost productivity.

Automatic collision solving for lead points

Intelligently detect and resolve collisions into and away from a robot path. By automating the process of setting lead points, ensure faster more efficient programming without user intervention.

Start simulating faster

Start simulating programs containing thousands of points with only a very short load time. With this mode, the user will no longer wait multiple minutes for the simulation to calculate prior to starting simulation playback.
This feature is useful when working with complex 3D paths imported from a CAM software where the path contains thousands of points.

Easily rename groups of statements

Select multiple program statements and rename them using dynamic variables. This helps to organize statement names in order prior to creating robot code.

Import and export templates

Quickly import and export sets of templates in OCTOPUZ to share common options and settings with other users.

More improvements

• Modifying mechanism “Automatically Move Joints”: when creating or modifying a mechanism, there is a new option to “Automatically move joints”. If enabled, all joints will be automatically offset to match a change to the origin of a joint.
• Calibrate “Swap Primary Joint”: in Calibrate External, there is a new option to “Swap Primary Joint”. If enabled, the secondary joint will use two the datasets for calibration instead of the primary joint.
• Split paths via selected points: there is a new option to split a path into multiple paths by selecting a series of points.
• Transform “Recalculate World-Z Leads”: there is a new option for “Recalculate World-Z Leads”. If enabled, lead points on paths using World-Z direction will be recalculated when transformed.
• Skip unsolvable paths when using Automatic Programming: in Automatic Programming, there is a new option to “Skip Unsolved Paths”. If enabled, then any path which cannot be solved for errors will be automatically unselected in the list of paths to create.
• Isolate statements: similar to Enable/ Disable, a new “Isolate” option will keep only the selected statements enabled, while disabling everything else.
• New position control options: there are updates to the position controls UI/ UX, including brand-specific orientation on the Program tab. In addition, OTC robots now have unique orientation option (r, p, y).
• Customize path & point visualization: there are various new settings to control the colour and thickness of path lines and points as they appear in the 3D world.
• App Density setting: a new “Compact” setting provides more flexibility with the application window, including resizable panels and a lower minimum width. 
• More: plenty of other performance and UI/UX improvements, plus a number of bug fixes.

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This update is now available to download directly in OCTOPUZ for users that have an active OCTOPUZ software plan. Full release notes are available on the OCTOPUZ Academy.