![]() ![]() “If you’re working in any industry with robotics, interoperability will come up,” said Prather, who is now director of the Robotics & Autonomous Systems Program at ASTM International, at this year's event.Ĭompliance with the MassRobotics standard is voluntary, but it can help with robotics adoption, said Ryden. Visit Robotics 24/7’s special coverage page for more from the events.Īlso, check out our Robotics Applications Conference, which is available on demand. It involved a shared map that showed systems from Vecna Robotics, Waypoint Robotics, and WiBotic.ĪMR and Logistics Week was produced by A3 and was co-located with The Vision Show. “Pre-competitive collaboration is crucial to industry growth.”Īs 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 at FedEx's DART center in Memphis, Tenn. “It allows a robot to share its operational status and information about location, speed, direction, etc.,” he said. ![]() 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. MassRobotics standard provides common frame of reference Panelists included Tom Ryden, executive director of MassRobotics Daniel Theobald, co-founder of MassRobotics, Vecna Robotics, Twisted Fields, and Mekable Jason Walker, vice president of marketing development at Locus Robotics and Florian Pestoni, CEO of InOrbit and co-founder of the nonprofit Robot Operations Group. In a session on “Standardization Efforts for Mobile Robot Interoperability,” panelists outlined the progress they have made on the MassRobotics AMR Interoperability Standard, which was first published in May 2021. ![]() Interoperability was once again a key topic of discussion at this year’s AMR and Logistics Week in Boston. He said that either suppliers cooperate to get their robots “to play well together,” or major users such as FedEx would look elsewhere. In 2019, Aaron Prather, then senior technology advisor at FedEx Express, challenged autonomous mobile robot, or AMR, vendors to work on interoperability at the Association for Advancing Automation’s first AMR Conference in Louisville, Ky. ![]()
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