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…Silicon Valley Robotics (SVR), and Robot Operations Group (ROG) meetings at the Robot Space. “In order to remain competitive, we need more high school girls and undergrad women to choose career paths in computer science and engineering,” said Andra Keay, president of Women in Robotics and managing director of Silicon Valley Robotics. “The InOrbit Robot Space will be a great…
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…and co-founder of the nonprofit Robot Operations Group. MassRobotics standard provides common frame of reference The MassRobotics standard enables mobile robots to share their location and capabilities with one another, but it does not require vendors to share proprietary maps, explained Theobald during the panel. “It allows a robot to share its operational status and information about location, speed, direction,…
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…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…
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…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…
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…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…
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…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…
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…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.…
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…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,…
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…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…
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…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…
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…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…
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…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…
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…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…
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…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…
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…Interoperability Working Group, and the Robot Operations Group. Surviving coronavirus disruptions and avoiding vendor lock-in Although automotive manufacturing, one of the biggest users of industrial automation, experienced a slowdown last year because of U.S. trade disputes with China and supply chain disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic, many e-commerce and logistics providers have described an acceleration of demand. Increases that were…
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