Piloting a Kawasaki FN20N robot using Labview

Dear All,
We are currently using Kawasaki robot FN20N at the university I am working in. The use of As language in not convenient as we are doing only development work (no production) and we need to modify the code each time we do something new. We have experience in running INSTRON test machines with labview.
We would like to use labview (with VISION) for tool location and piloting the robot. So far, I did not manage to find any driver or anyone who may have done that. We do not even know where to start.
Any advise are more than welcome.
Denis

Did the vendor provide any information as to how one goes about programming the robot using a programming language (irrespective of LabVIEW)? What kind of hardware interface does it have?

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