Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 24.97
June 06, 2022
…TV,” said 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 InOrbit Connect can help robotics suppliers and users manage RobOps data and interoperability among systems. “Through our work…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 24.10
October 05, 2021
…standard for 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 product demonstrations and interviews upon request. It also plans to make several announcements at the show. “We will…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 23.89
December 08, 2021
…the need 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 enough, now put it on wheels with a battery and send it into world with a half-ton body,”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 23.48
February 06, 2023
…Women in Robotics (WiR), 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 location for SVR and WiR events, helping attendees connect with successful women in robotics and get hands-on experience with the latest in robotics and robot operations.” A MiR100 AMR in operation at the Robot Space. Source:…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 21.67
July 21, 2021
…standard.” Pestoni 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 to the cloud easier. Any compliant robot can connect to InOrbit for fleet-wide visibility and management, offering companies…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.70
January 03, 2022
…to start taking hold 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.”
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 16.89
April 27, 2021
…Meili Robotics, Freedom Robotics, 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 of automated tasks, said Meili.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.36
September 23, 2021
…in heterogeneous 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 the heavy lifting, we believe that this idea of interoperability and orchestration of all of these robots in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.17
April 03, 2022
…Meili Robots. 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 stores to collaborative robots (cobots) working alongside people. Cobots are intended to be safer and easier to program…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.91
October 15, 2021
…Its CEO, 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 a shared coordinate system,” replied Walker. “It's like hiking with GIS—we use common reference points.” “There was a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.54
May 14, 2021
…that buying a robot is only the start of the journey,” said 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 a warehouse may not be here just yet,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.35
March 24, 2021
…Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) 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 predicted for five years coincided first with staffing shortages and then the need for social distancing. “A lot has changed in the past year,” acknowledged Prather. “The pandemic may have brought attention to end users on…
