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The need for orchestration is accelerating across industries, as companies adopt robots with distinct form factors, capabilities, and protocols across sites, noted InOrbit Inc. The company today unveiled a landmark autonomous mobile robot, or AMR, interoperability showcase at Automate.
InOrbit.AI said it will demonstrate how enterprises can connect islands of automation into efficient and resilient operations.
“Enterprises are facing the automation paradox: As they deploy robots at scale, complexity increases, preventing them from achieving agility,” stated Florian Pestoni, CEO of InOrbit. “Today, we are demonstrating the future of the sentient enterprise in action, bridging the gap between business intent and physical execution with partners from around the world.”
The company organized the AMR interoperability showcase with the Association for Advancing Automation (A3). The live demonstration brings together eight robotics suppliers from around the world, including Ati Robotics, InOrbit.AI, Kärcher, Neura Robotics, Omron, Peer Robotics, Quasi Robotics, and Unitree.
InOrbit Space Intelligence unifies the physical AI, connecting with enterprise systems, integrating different vendors’ native fleet management systems, dispatching robots to execute complex missions, and coordinating the actions of every robot in real time.
InOrbit connects islands of automation, contributes to standard
Until now, robotics systems have operated in isolation, claimed InOrbit. Separate fleet management systems, incompatible protocols, siloed data, and high integration costs create coordination bottlenecks that erode the expected return on investment and prevent automation from scaling, it said.
InOrbit Space Intelligence addresses this challenge as an enterprise-grade orchestration platform that sits above individual vendor systems, providing unified command and control across multi-vendor robot fleets and Internet of Things infrastructure. The InOrbit Business Execution System (BES) translates orders from warehouse management systems (WMS), enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, and manufacturing execution systems (MES) into optimized robotic execution.
In addition, Mountain View, Calif.-based InOrbit offers real-time spatial awareness, traffic management, and task deconfliction across heterogeneous fleets. Its Connect ecosystem includes more than 30 robot brands and continues to grow, allowing enterprises to seamlessly integrate any robot into their operations.
“As more robotics companies enter the market, the next phase of automation growth will be driven by interoperability and seamless coordination between diverse robotic platforms,” said Jeff Burnstein, president of A3. “At Automate 2026 in Chicago, June 22-25, we will showcase for the first time a live demonstration of federated orchestration powered by InOrbit.AI with robots from around the world.”
The demo will serve as a practical reference for the upcoming ISO/DIS 21423 standard, which defines a common communication framework enabling robots, fleet managers, and enterprise systems from different vendors to interoperate.
Unlike earlier standards focused primarily on centralized control models, ISO 21423 embraces the federated orchestration architecture pioneered by InOrbit, where multiple fleet managers and robots can coexist and coordinate.
Pestoni actively contributed to the ISO working group that developed this standard, which is currently in its ballot period and is expected to be published later this year.
Agentic AI meets physical AI
Managing the complexity of physical operations requires intelligence. InOrbit is showing the latest evolution of InOrbit RobOps Copilot, an agentic AI overlay that it said enables operations teams to manage robots through natural language, including voice commands.
Rather than navigating multiple vendor dashboards, operators can define robot behavior, get real-time data, analyze performance, trigger robot missions, and generate reports by simply stating their intent.
“The InOrbit RobOps Copilot changes the conversation from ‘How do I operate these robots?’ to ‘What do I need the operation to achieve?’” said Ramiro Diaz Trepat, chief technology officer of InOrbit.AI. “It’s intent over specification, bringing the power of enterprise robot orchestration to every member of the operations team, regardless of their technical background.”
A member of the NVIDIA Inception program, InOrbit.AI uses the company‘s technology for a range of workloads, from NVIDIA Thor hardware for inference at the edge to NVIDIA Metropolis for visual AI agents.
As physical AI expands into more applications and form factors, safety must remain a primary concern, said InOrbit. It integrates certified functional safety solutions from its global ecosystem, such as InnoTech SafeGuard and NVIDIA Halos, for “outside-in” intelligence to augment native capabilities and enhance real-time spatial awareness.
Coalition of robotics leaders demonstrates orchestration
The participating companies represent a cross-section of the global automation industry, spanning humanoid and cognitive robotics, industrial automation, material handling, collaborative robotics, and autonomous cleaning, said InOrbit.
“At Ati Robotics, we have long believed the future of industrial automation will not be defined by a single robot or standalone system, but by intelligent orchestration across an ecosystem of autonomous technologies,” said Saurabh Chandra, founder and CEO of Ati Robotics.
robot space. Source: InOrbit
“Autonomous cleaning is transforming facility management, but cleaning robots don’t operate in a vacuum: They share space with material handling robots, cobots, and other equipment,” said Marco Cardinale, chief technology officer at Kärcher. “Our long-term collaboration with InOrbit.AI enables seamless orchestration of our KIRA cleaning robots alongside robots from other manufacturers. For Kärcher, connected cleaning means being part of a larger, intelligent automation ecosystem.”
“Collaborative robots shouldn’t just collaborate with humans; they should collaborate with every other robot on the factory floor,” asserted Rishabh Agarwal, founder and CEO of Peer Robotics. “For end users, this kind of seamless multi-vendor orchestration removes the biggest barrier to scaling automation.”
“Collaborating with InOrbit showcases how specialized, intelligent robots from Quasi Robotics can be easily orchestrated alongside other systems,” added Vlad Lebedev, founder and CEO of Quasi Robotics. “This interoperability is what allows businesses to build truly flexible, multi-purpose automation setups.”
“Robotics is a global endeavor, and the most impactful solutions will come from open collaboration across borders and domains,” said Jo Chou, marketing and business development manager at Unitree Robotics. “Our quadruped and humanoid platforms are designed to work within larger ecosystems, not in isolation.”
“This multi-vendor demo with InOrbit at Automate 2026 demonstrates exactly what we believe: When robots from around the world can be orchestrated together, the possibilities for real-world applications multiply dramatically,” she said.