Cogniteam chooses RTI Connext for cloud robot communications, management [Video]

Real-Time Innovations, or RTI, today announced that Cogniteam has chosen RTI Connext to provide commercially supported communications to its unified cloud-based platform for robot design, development, and testing.

Developers can use Connext, which is based on the Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard, to monitor incoming data in real time from robots to the cloud, said RTI. It promises to improve productivity, as Cogniteam achieved coding translation from the Robot Operating System (ROS) to ROS 2 in one month, compared with the market norm of three to six months, asserted the companies.

“New and exciting tools are emerging in robotics aimed at facilitating interconnectivity of systems and components at the edge and in the cloud,” said Ari Yakir, vice president of research and discovery at Cogniteam, in a release. “Connext did exactly what we needed it to — from adding functionality between libraries to retrieving critical data from the edge device — speeding up …