MassRobotics Releases First Version of Mobile Robotics Interoperability Standard

Organization: MassRobotics
Country: USA
Website: https://www.massrobotics.org/
Year Founded: 2015
Number of Employees: 1-10

MassRobotics is bringing the mobile robotics industry together with the development of an interoperability standard that will benefit end-users who have heterogenious fleets of AMRs within their facilities.

Description:

The new standards initiative enables autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) from multiple vendors to integrate and work together seamlessly to support safe and efficient operations in factories, warehouses, distribution, and fulfillment centers.

Analysis:
One of the core missions of MassRobotics is to enable collaboration and cooperation between robotics companies, while helping them grow and scale. MassRobotics sponsored the AMR interoperability standards group and facilitated the development of the new standard.

The standard was issued in 2021 after months of discussion, research, debate and collaboration, with the first public demonstration of the standard at the FedEx DART Lab in October 2021.

The primary goal of the standard is to enable AMRs from different vendors to operate within the same workspace and share information seamlessly between the fleet management solutions in a non-proprietary fashion. This information is also available to customers to enable unified AMR tracking and reporting on dashboards, including the location of all AMRs within a facility. - Mike Oitzman

MassRobotics is bringing the mobile robotics industry together with the development of an interoperability standard that will benefit end-users who have heterogenious fleets of AMRs within their facilities.

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