1. A robot teach pendant unit coupled to a programmable robot controller, the teach pendant comprising; a graphical screen and a native user interface program configured to create a graphical user interface and to display the user interface on the graphical screen, a processing component configured to receive an application including one or more animated graphical objects, instructions for displaying the animated objects on the graphical screen, information on the behavior of the animated graphical objects and instructions on how the user can interact with the animated graphical objects, wherein the processing component is further configured to set up at least one sandbox for a received application, said sandbox providing an isolation mechanism for safely running the application without disturbing the execution of normal teach pendant operations, wherein the processing component is further configured to control user interaction and display of the animated graphical objects on the screen within the set up sandbox, and wherein said user interface program is configured to host the processing component and to instruct the processing component to load and display the application containing the animated graphical objects.