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…Pestoni, who is also co-founder of the Robot Operations Group (ROG). InOrbit offers free and paid editions of its scalable, cloud-based RobOps platform, making it accessible to everyone from early-stage startups to large enterprises. “In combination with InOrbit Connect, the InOrbit platform provides a single pane of glass for operating diverse and growing fleets while keeping each part of the ecosystem focused on what it does best,” said the company. Source: InOrbit Robot suppliers, users to benefit from RobOps data…
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…He is also a member of the Robot Operations Group (ROG). Even though 2021 already brought a lot of attention to the diversification of robot fleets and the lack of interoperability, it remains a major challenge that organizations such as ROG and MassRobotics are beginning to address. 4. Cobots, delivery robots, and multi-purpose systems multiply As a result of the increased specialization described above, we are also seeing new types, ranging from inventory and cleaning robots in supermarkets or retail…
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…in 2022 is the concept of robot operations, or RobOps. He is co-founder of the Robot Operations Group (ROG), which is promoting a set of processes, tools, and best practices to guide robot manufacturers, operators, and customers in the design and use of robots. “RobOps are a vital part of robotics development and integration at scale across industries,” said the organization. “RobOps comprises an executional layer to the larger evolving picture of autonomous robotic integration in our world.”
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…to effectively manage and scale them. The Robot Operations Group today announced its first conference, RobOpsCon, which will be held in Silicon Valley in October 2022. The Robot Operations Group, or ROG (pronounced “rogue”), is a cross-industry organization that develops and shares best practices to advance the operation of autonomous robots at scale. The group, which has almost 150 members worldwide and is growing rapidly, has published the open-source Robot Operations Manifesto. “If you think managing IT systems is tough…
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…Association for Advancing Automation (A3), and the Robot Operations Group (ROG) have been discussing robot interoperability in heterogeneous environments. However, Open Robotics has been taking an open-source approach for a few years already, said Gerkey. “Compared with companies in the robot operations, or RobOps software space, some of them are focused on ways to manage a single kind of fleet,” he said. “Other groups are looking to establish a standard. We're not really looking to dictate standards, which don't always…
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…Florian Pestoni, is also co-founder of the Robot Operations Group (ROG), an industry community dedicated to advancing robot operations, or RobOps, best practices. ROG had its latest meeting at the A3 AMR & Logistics Conference. AMR & Logistics Conference panel on interoperability, from left: Robert Huschka, A3; Aaron Prather, FedEx; Florian Pestoni, InOrbit; Daniel Theobald, Vecna Robotics; and Jose Luis Susa Rincon, Siemens. Making mapping work How does shared mapping work? “Each robot makes its own map, but they use…
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…communications. Pestoni is also co-founder of the Robot Operations Group (ROG), which discusses interoperability issues. InOrbit presence at A3 event The session on “Interoperability for AMRs: Exploring the Path Forward” will be from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. CT on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. Pestoni will join speakers from FedEx, Siemens, and Vecna Robotics. In addition, InOrbit will be an exhibitor at A3's conference, which will focus on automation and logistics advancements. The company said it will be available for live…
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…environments. InOrbit is a founder of the Robot Operations Group and recently joined the standards efforts at MassRobotics, an organization devoted to growing the Massachusetts robotics ecosystem. “As a member, we now support the new MassRobotics interoperability standard as part of InOrbit and have made open-source contributions,” said Pestoni. “Other standards are coming soon.” “One of the roles we took on is to share information and raise awareness,” he said. “If we want this future with lots of robots doing…
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…for Advancing Automation (A3), MassRobotics, and the Robot Operations Group (ROG)? “We are keeping abreast and have a dialogue with robotics vendors,” Sakharkar said. “Ultimately, orchestration is critical in two dimensions. We bring our expertise in contract logistics to connecting the dots and finding optimized orchestration for any given situation, based on customer needs.” “Second, in terms of collaborating with vendors, we work with best-of-breed technologies,” he said. “We're looking at the latest technologies and POCs [proofs of concept] and…
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…is also a founding member of the Robot Operations Group, a community of industry experts dedicated to advancing robot operations, or RobOps, best practices. InOrbit has joined MassRobotics as a member and has already contributed to the standard, which is available as an open-source project. The company has also released open-source components to help other companies become standards-compliant. It added that it is working on support for additional interoperability standards such as VDA-5050, which is intended to make connecting robots…
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…Pestoni, who is also co-founder of the Robot Operations Group (ROG). “To take full advantage of the technology, you need coordination of people and robots working together.” “Logistics companies just happen to use robots. This new wave of organizations—we're enablers,” said Inggs. “Robotics-as-a-service [RaaS] providers are trying to get as much off the shelf as they can and assemble the smartest bits from the smartest providers.” The days of unified, easy-to-use tools for managing semi-autonomous drones, AMRs, remote-controlled trucks—and people—in…
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…and inOrbit are working to tackle the interoperability challenge, as are organizations such as the Robot Operations Group and working groups at the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute, and MassRobotics. Meili Robots said it is developing the next generation of mobile robot fleet management, called Meili FMS. It is capable of handling different kinds of AMRs and AGVs, claimed the Copenhagen-based company. The product can help control traffic, empower interoperability, and facilitate allocation…
