# Sherpa Robot and Sherpa Assistant
Sherpa Robot and Sherpa Assistant work together. Sherpa Robot does not have its own interface and operates through the Sherpa Assistant interface.
These components work as follows:
1. Sherpa Robot takes input from software robot scripts and performs the specified actions; it is responsible for executing the software robot script created in Sherpa Designer.
2. Sherpa Assistant is an agent program that allows you to view the list of robots and manage them (start, schedule script execution).
Sherpa Assistant provides the following capabilities:
* Configuration of hotkeys for software robots;
* Activation of the license key for Sherpa RPA platform products;
* Configuration of log saving and deletion parameters and access to saved robot logs;
* Configuration and connection of software robots to Sherpa Orchestrator;
* Management of proxy settings;
* Configuration of script execution parameters;
* Configuration of remote client operation parameters;
* Configuration of remote debugging parameters for software robots and its launch;
* Configuration of connections to services such as Yandex Cloud, Anti Captcha, OpenAI, OCRSpace, Sherpa AI Server, Sber GigaChat, DaData;
* Configuration of selectors.
## **System Requirements for Installing Sherpa Robot for Windows:**
| **Minimum System Requirements** | **Recommended System Requirements** |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Operating System: Windows 10 and above or Windows Server 2008R2 and above | Operating System: Windows 10 / 11 or Windows Server 2012 and above |
| Processor: 1.4GHz | Processor: 3GHz x 2 cores |
| RAM: 2 GB | RAM: 4 GB |
| Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8+ PowerShell 5.1+ | Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8+ PowerShell 5.1+ |
## System Requirements for **Installing Sherpa Robot for Linux**
| **Minimum System Requirements:** | **Recommended System Requirements:** |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Operating System:
- Astra Linux Common Edition 2.12.46.6;
- Alt Linux Workstation 10.3 SP1;
- RedOS 7.3;
- OSNOVA 6.0
| Operating System:
- Astra Linux Common Edition 2.12.46.6 and above;
- Alt Linux Workstation 10.3 SP1 and above;
- RedOS 7.3 and above;
- OSNOVA 6.0 and above
|
| Processor: 3GHz x 2 cores | Processor: 3GHz x 4 cores |
| RAM: 4 GB | RAM: 6 GB |
| Microsoft .NET 8;
Powershell 7.2
| Microsoft .NET and above;
Powershell 7.2 and above
|