Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.29
November 16, 2021
…(CTRLS) and the System Unification Model (SUM) to enable interoperability between ROV and robotic arm systems. CTRLS allows the topside ROV operator to send mission goals to the SUM module located on the vehicle. This enables the vehicle and robotic arms to quickly and efficiently achieve those mission goals, making it easier for operators to complete complex underwater tasks, said RE2. “Currently, robotic arms and ROVs are controlled with separate control systems,” said Jorgen Pedersen, president and CEO of RE2 Robotics. “CLAMS will enable both the robotic arms and the mobile platform to be operated with a single control unit.”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.49
November 14, 2021
…robotics from different vendors, elevating the importance of easy interoperability, said Dwight Klappich, research vice president at analyst firm Gartner Inc. Application programming interfaces (APIs) from robotics vendors and from warehouse management system (WMS) providers can help. However, things get more complicated when multiple types of robots, fixed automation, and other systems like manifesting or cubing and weighing, need to work in concert. “The problem is when operations get to the point of deploying heterogeneous fleets of robots, then that API approach becomes increasingly difficult to do,” explained Klappich. “You can end up with all these one-off integrations between multiple…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 16.25
November 10, 2021
…billion ($4.37 billion U.S.) in 2020. arculus integrates European interoperability standard Founded in 2016, arculus offers the arculee line of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), the Warehouse software for goods-to-person logistics, Modular Production for dynamic product flow, and the Fleet management software. The Munich, Germany-based startup said its systems provide 99.96% uptime, moved more than 500,000 km (310,000 mi.) autonomously in 2020, and have completed 1.5 million picks. The company obtained Series A funding and integrated the European VDA 5050 interoperability standard last year. The arculus Fleet traffic-control system enables AGVs and AMRs from different manufacturers to be operated via a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.82
October 27, 2021
…robots in warehouses and elsewhere have raised concerns about interoperability among systems from multiple vendors, as well as with facility infrastructure and enterprise software. One effort has its roots in the open-source community and the healthcare industry. The Open Robotics Middleware Framework, or Open-RMF, is designed to coordinate fleets of robots with typical use cases and integrate them with elevators and other systems. “As more diverse robots are being deployed around the world, there is a growing need for specialized robots from different developers to be able to communicate with each other. A lingua robotica, if you will,” said Open…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.23
October 20, 2021
…problems; and what audience members should know about adopting, financing, and managing AMRs. The conference also featured discussions about interoperability among varied robots from multiple manufacturers, the new R15.08 industrial mobile robot safety standard, and scaling robotics deployments, among other topics. The addition of logistics also benefited the event, said Burnstein. “We added technologies besides AMRs,” he explained. “Some attendees wanted to know how these robots can work in automotive manufacturing. Logistics touches everyone, not just e-commerce and warehouses.” See the slideshow (right) for 10 insights from the AMR & Logistics conference.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 21.45
October 15, 2021
…the benefits of automation. Most of the discussions around interoperability have been theoretical—until now. Yesterday at the FedEx DART research and development center here, Vecna Robotics, Waypoint Robotics, and WiBotic successfully demonstrated MassRobotics' new standard for communications. The demonstration was part of the Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) and Logistics Conference held by the Association for Advancing Automation (A3). While several organizations have recognized the need for interoperability among AMRs, yesterday's demonstration was the first time real-world systems used a common interface to report their locations. “This is the very first level of capability,” said Daniel Theobald, founder and chief innovation…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.14
October 12, 2021
…growing number of open-source contributions, such as support for interoperability standards and sample integration for ChatOps. Robotics designers can use the Developer Portal with the recently announced InOrbit Free Edition to immediately begin building rather than start from scratch, said Pestoni. “The portal goes hand in hand with our free platform,” he said. “Our mission is to be a catalyst for the adoption of robotics at a global scale. We see a lot of waste where people reinvent the wheel. It has the effect of slowing everyone down. We released the free edition to remove friction.” “Developers love to have…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 37.94
October 05, 2021
…sessions at the event will be a roundtable on interoperability for autonomous mobile robots. Many autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) entering warehouses and other environments are managed by vendor-provided software and connect with other enterprise systems. However, concerns about interoperability have arisen as fleets expand and different robots from multiple vendors need to collaborate with one another, as well as human workers. “We're very active in the AMR space, 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…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.83
October 04, 2021
…robotics hardware has its own programming language, intricacies and interoperability issues. The no-code approach essentially builds a smart layer that shields users from dealing with low-level language and deals with all sorts of snags in the backend. While it’s an approach that has proven to work, I personally believe that this is an intermediate solution that will become obsolete in the future. Even today, we’re shipping machines that are pre-programmed to work out of the box on factory assembly lines without any end user needing to program them. The AGI community believes in building machines that are capable of learning…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.62
September 23, 2021
…know there's a need to remove friction and allow interoperability, but they're not fully there yet.” “We’ve seen too many robotics companies waste precious time reinventing the wheel,” he stated. “With InOrbit Free Edition, we are helping companies address common robot operations problems without having to worry about entering a credit card. And unlike other limited time trials, Free Edition supports an unlimited number of robots for free – forever.” With bigger customers buying a more fully featured version of InOrbit's platform, what do Free Edition users get? InOrbit Free Edition enables access to the end-to-end platform infrastructure, including the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.50
September 22, 2021
…Open Robotics and NVIDIA are working to enable simulation interoperability between Open Robotics’s Ignition Gazebo and NVIDIA Isaac Sim on Omniverse. Isaac Sim already supports ROS 1 and 2 out of the box and features an ecosystem of 3D content with its connection to popular applications such as Blender and Unreal Engine 4. With the two simulators interoperable, ROS developers can easily move their robots and environments between Ignition Gazebo and Isaac Sim to run large-scale simulations, said NVIDIA. They can also take advantage of each simulator’s advanced features such as high-fidelity dynamics, accurate sensor models, and photorealistic rendering to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.02
September 04, 2021
…the product. We'd deploy it in the right place.” Interoperability and customer service As production and logistics environments start to use multiple types of robots from different vendors, interoperability and management have become concerns. Is GXO monitoring efforts by organizations such as 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…
