You can import objects written in C++ and plug them in URBI to use them as normal objects inside the language. They are called UObjects.

You can also run a UObject as a remote object, a simple autonomous executable in Windows, Linux or Mac OSX. You don't have to change a single line of code to switch from embedded "linked" mode to remote mode.

Robotics needs parallelism and requires to go beyond threads and application-level parallelism. URBI integrates parallelism and event-based programming at the core of its semantics, which is new.

Commands like 'whenever' or 'at' will start code when events occur. The & symbol can be used instead of the usual semicolon: A&B means that A and B will run in parallel. It's that simple.

As a truly parallel language, URBI brings powerful abstractions that you will never access as easily in another script language. Here is a few of these features:

	You can set any variable to reach a value in a given time or at a given speed, or even set a sinusoidal oscillation on it. All this in parallel if you want to.
	Every variable has a blend mode which specifies how conflicting simultaneous assignments should be handled - an extension of the concept of 'mutexes'.
	Any portion of code can be prefixed with a tag. You can then later stop, freeze, unfreeze this code from anywhere using the tag name.