2026-04-02T15:00:00Z
The robotics industry faces a fragmentation crisis in operations parallel to the early days of robot software development. While ROS standardized the device layer and Open-RMF standardizes traffic negotiation, a critical gap exists in the middle: the core fleet management layer. Robot developers currently waste significant time and resources building proprietary fleet managers with essentially the same functionality: connectivity, observability, state management, traffic management—effectively “reinventing the wheel”.
At the next Interoperability Special Interest Group, we’ll hear from Florian Pestoni, founder and CEO at InOrbit.AI, about the upcoming OpenRobOps (ORO) open source software platform for fleet operations. ORO provides essential robot-specific functionality such as connectivity, logging, and remote access, helping you fully operationalize your fleet. This is complementary to the role of Open-RMF which handles how different fleets interact with each other via traffic flow and sharing building infrastructure like doors and elevators.
By releasing ORO open source, InOrbit hopes to break the cycle of system integrators repeatedly re-inventing the wheel of basic AMR operations. This should help accelerate the growth of AMR services and cultivate a more vibrant landscape for mobile robots—both industrial and service robots.