Formant + PickNik power best-in-class low latency interface for advanced planning of arm movements

Posted: October 19, 2021 at 5:07 am MDT|Update: 2 hours ago

BOULDER, Colo., October 19, 2021 / PRNewswire / – PickNik Robotics and Formant are pleased to announce the formation of a working partnership aimed at expanding the capabilities of the two groups to bring cloud-based mobile manipulation to the forefront of the robotic.

Forming, founded by a robotics veteran Jeff Linnel in 2017, provides the data infrastructure necessary to effectively deploy, control and scale robot fleets. Forming supports international RaaS and Fortune 500 companies in several verticals. Customers include large tech companies like Google, growing RaaS companies like Naio, and large companies like BP and Westinghouse Electric Company. Telemetry, analysis, planning and real-time control of Formant’s robots help accelerate the new wave of robotic systems in productive business use cases. Formant plans to expand its offerings with PickNik in the field of mobile handling.

PickNik Robotics, founded by Dr. Dave coleman in 2015, offers supervised autonomy for robotic arm manipulators that bridges the gap between manual control and full autonomy. Their flagship product, MoveIt Studio, is built on top of the leading open source robotic arm manipulation platform, MoveIt. PickNik runs and maintains MoveIt, a platform that integrates with the robotic operating system (ROS) to enable businesses and robotics developers to build automation applications. PickNik’s software products and services have helped companies like Google, Hyundai, Samsung, and NASA solve tough handling problems.

“We are delighted to be working with Formant. We are watching the maturing robotics industry and see a lot of potential in providing supervised autonomy to a set of customers similar to that served by the Formant platform, ”said PickNik CEO, the Dr. Dave coleman.

PickNik recently received an SBIR Phase II from NASA for planning robot arm movements in microgravity environments. PickNik subsequently announced the development of a commercialized open-core model of MoveIt, under the brand MoveIt Studio, which will focus on supervised autonomy to provide localized autonomous action in high latency environments with the possibility of reducing operator oversight.

Formant and PickNik plan to integrate MoveIt Studio with the Formant platform, allowing the two companies to focus on their respective value offerings and release a beta later this year. Together, the partnership allows customers to stay focused on their hardware, autonomy and business while having access to cutting-edge data pipelines, operational workflows and user experiences.

To learn more, visit https://picknik.ai/studio/ and https://formant.io/partners/picknik

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