Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.92
April 24, 2022
…to logistics and manufacturing,” said Florian Pestoni, CEO of InOrbit Inc., which provides a cloud-based robot operations platform. “They're all feeling the need to keep up with demand.” “Sometimes, there's something even more fundamental than ROI, but of course you want that investment to have a positive return,” he added. “What we've seen is, after the initial deployment, you still have a lot of work to do. You still have to fine-tune the operation; you have to refine it over time.” Set benchmarks for robot fleets A mobile robot user needs to establish capacity, productivity and other benchmarks before a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 44.89
March 17, 2022
…need a robot operations, or RobOps, infrastructure, according to InOrbit. The company today announced that it has released Data Backfill, a RobOps tool designed to eliminate gaps in a robot’s operating history with data saved offline. “This is another piece of the puzzle for how to maintain end-to-end observability under even the most demanding conditions,” wrote InOrbit in a blog post. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company said its cloud-based, robot-agnostic data platform helps customers with “the four O’s” of RobOps: observability, operation, orchestration, and optimization. InOrbit said it provides secure, real-time analytics and data collection, robot performance monitoring (RPM), and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 37.76
February 09, 2022
…configuring and managing robot operations, or RobOps, according to InOrbit. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company today announced the launch of Configuration as Code, which is intended to enable engineers to streamline development workflows with software automation best practices. “We want to create RobOps tools that solve problems, streamline processes, and can be incorporated as part of the development workflow,” said Julian Cerruti, co-founder and chief technology officer of InOrbit. “Support for Configuration as Code enables developers with the benefits precise robot configurations offer, leveraging the power of the InOrbit platform to better manage the development cycle.” InOrbit said its cloud-based,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.00
January 03, 2022
…Florian Pestoni, co-founder and CEO of Mountain View, Calif.-based InOrbit Inc. “We help maximize the value of every robot, both working with the robot developers to help them improve the robot and focus on their differentiation, as well as with the end users who are trying to improve their processes, sometimes using different types of robots, sometimes from different vendors,” he said. Whereas most AMR vendors have some type of fleet management software, most of those systems are “pretty basic,” according to Pestoni. “What we're starting to see is the need for a robot-agnostic way of managing this complexity—especially when…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.72
December 22, 2021
…organizations like MassRobotics or startups like Open Robotics and InOrbit. Glynn: Absolutely. The increased focus on omnichannel fulfillment accelerated by the pandemic is not going away. On top of that, consumers now expect delivery quicker than ever before. These external pressures are going to require companies to adapt or fall behind and this will lead to more money pouring into companies developing the solutions that operators are seeking. Elazary: I do expect we'll see more funding and more consolidation in this space. Brands and 3PLs [third-party logistics providers] have had to face a perfect storm since the pandemic—fulfill a lot…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.21
December 10, 2021
…robots from multiple vendors. Locus, Waypoint, 6 River Systems, InOrbit, Mobile Industrial Robots, Vecna Robotics, and FedEx participated in MassRobotics' AMR Interoperability Working Group, said Saad. At the AMR and Logistics Conference held by the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) in Memphis in October, the working group conducted the first demonstration of a standard for communications among mobile robots. The group plans to address batteries and power management next, Saad noted. He added that MassRobotics will address climate change and robotics in the coming year. “We have a lot of smart people and technologies, and we have a responsibility to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.88
December 08, 2021
…said Florian Pestoni, co-founder of ROG and CEO of InOrbit. “The problems become more challenging and interesting, and merit their own body of knowledge and community.” Why RobOps discussions are needed “Last week, I conducted a webinar with a company developing a food-delivery robot,” Pestoni told Robotics 24/7. “We touched on the need for interoperability and the higher-level need for orchestration of autonomous and semi-autonomous systems on streets.” “It was also clear from FedEx's comments at past A3 [Association for Advancing Automation] events that interoperability is absolutely becoming a requirement in the warehouse,” he said. “From different standards efforts to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.35
November 14, 2021
…Mobile Industrial Robots AutoGuide Mobile Robots Third Wave Automation InOrbit Open Robotics A key focus of this standards effort is to allow AMRs of different types to share status information or “rules of the road.” For example, the standard addresses data points such as common reference location, current location, a robot’s state (active versus idle), and future destination. The standard also enables the creation of operational dashboards so managers can gain insights into fleet productivity and utilization. However, it is not meant as an orchestration platform or some type of overarching fleet controller, explained Walker, who is on the standards…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 16.55
October 15, 2021
…things out,” said Jason Walker, CEO of Waypoint Robotics. “InOrbit even has ROS code with the standard baked in. We wanted to bring to robotics development what agile [methodology] does—rapid iterations versus waiting a year for perfection in the waterfall approach.” InOrbit recently joined MassRobotics' standard effort. 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…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 52.38
October 13, 2021
…Meili Robots today announced that it has partnered with InOrbit Inc. Meili Robots provides a universal fleet management system called Meili FMS. The Copenhagen-based company said its system is designed to allow robot operators to handle different types and brands of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) with a single system. The fleet management tool can be used for assignging tasks to different robots, controlling traffic flows, and managing robot navigation, it said. “By opening up this range of new opportunities and abilities, users will be reaping the benefits like never before,” stated Aldus von der Burg,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 30.75
October 12, 2021
…tools for scaling and managing their growing robot fleets. InOrbit has responded with its cloud-based robot operations or RobOps software. The company today announced the launch of its Developer Portal, its InOrbit Ecosystem of partners, and a collaboration with AI-based management platform provider 634AI. “Our whole reason for existence is to accelerate adoption of robotics,” said Florian Pestoni, co-founder and CEO of InOrbit. “We want to bring the community together and offer tools for it to get cranking right away.” “When you launch development tools— what's amazing for me is that you think people will use them in a certain…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 54.33
October 05, 2021
…as well as logistics,” said Florian Pestoni, CEO of InOrbit, who will be among the panelists. “That space has been on fire with investments and acquisitions. In the past, companies said, 'This could work,' but now it's 'Let's scale this.' We're now only at 0.1% adoption, so we're just getting started.” Mountain View, Calif.-based InOrbit provides cloud-based orchestration software as a service to help optimize operations. The company recently announced its support of a new MassRobotics interoperability standard for communications. Pestoni is also co-founder of the Robot Operations Group (ROG), which discusses interoperability issues. InOrbit presence at A3 event The…
