Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.04
…Pestoni, CEO of InOrbit 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, etc.,” he said. “Pre-competitive collaboration is crucial to industry growth.” As part of the AMR and Logistics Conference put on by the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) in 2021, Prather hosted a demonstration of the standard…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.86
…Institute, the 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 work in the fast-moving world of robotics.” “We are a member of MassRobotics and participated in its effort…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.03
…the Association 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 then see what use cases to progress further.” While there is a lot of talk about the “factory…