OpenRobOps is an open-source robot operations software that gives robotics developers a production-grade foundation to deliver a complete fleet manager with support for the upcoming ISO interoperability standard for mobile robots.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- InOrbit.AI, the leader in enterprise robot orchestration, today announced the release of OpenRobOps (ORO), an open-source robot operations and fleet management software designed to support scaled deployments. Today's release delivers a complete operations layer that allows robot builders to deliver a robust fleet manager out of the box, and includes the world's first reference implementation of the ISO 21423 standard.
As the robotics industry rapidly expands, attracting more original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), their customers expect them to provide full-featured fleet managers with common functionality. Many OEMs fall into the 'build trap', spending years developing and maintaining custom backends, databases, and user interfaces instead of focusing on their core innovations. OpenRobOps (ORO) helps developers escape this trap by providing a production-grade open foundation, allowing them to shift their focus from recreating basic fleet management functionality to building and deploying useful robots.
OpenRobOps also includes the industry's first reference implementation of an upcoming interoperability standard from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The ISO 21423 specification establishes the communication and data exchange standard for industrial mobile robots (IMRs) and fleet managers (IMRFMs). By providing native ISO 21423 support, OpenRobOps enables OEMs to easily build solutions leveraging the new standard.
"Working with leading enterprises in manufacturing, logistics and other industries, I have seen firsthand that federated orchestration is essential to scaling automation," said Florian Pestoni, Founder and CEO of InOrbit.AI, who serves as a member of the ISO working group and representative for ANSI, the US national body. "I'm proud of the collaborative work that led to this landmark international interoperability standard. With OpenRobOps, we are helping take this from theory to market practice."
At Automate 2026, ten different companies participated in demonstration of multi-vendor orchestration based on InOrbit Space Intelligence, InOrbit.AI's flagship product. This was the first public demonstration of ISO 21423. Today's release of OpenRobOps brings the technology powering those demonstrations directly to the open-source robotics community, empowering OEMs to build standard-compliant fleet managers and reduce friction for their customers.
This key contribution to the open source robotics community mirrors the introduction of the Robot Operating System (ROS), which acted as a catalyst for robotics development, saving researchers and engineers countless hours of rewriting low-level code from scratch and bringing together a strong developer community.
"When we created ROS, our mission was to give roboticists an open ecosystem so they could stop re-inventing basic device drivers," said Steve Cousins, Executive Director of the Stanford Robotics Center, member of the InOrbit.AI Board of Directors and former CEO of Willow Garage. "OpenRobOps creates the same shift for robot operations and fleet management, while also enabling standards-based interoperability."
By providing a production-grade operations foundation out of the box, OpenRobOps allows teams to bypass years of backend development. Key features include:
- High-throughput telemetry ingest provides a bandwidth-efficient pipeline designed for unreliable networks, ensuring minimal overhead for vitals and hardware diagnostics.
- Real-time spatial tracking enables interactive mapping, live camera visualization, and teleoperation with an exclusive robot-locking mechanism for safe manual intervention.
- Configuration as Code (CaC) allows teams to manage telemetry sources, metrics, and alert rules seamlessly within Git CI/CD workflows.
- Automated incident remediation performs continuous evaluation that detects anomalies, executes autonomous recovery, or escalates issues to human operators.
- An edge-to-cloud hybrid architecture offers flexible deployment options to run fully on-premises, air-gapped at the edge, or securely bridged to enterprise clouds.
- Native Open-RMF interoperability includes built-in adapters connecting physical and simulated fleets into Open-RMF multi-fleet traffic systems.
OpenRobOps is distributed under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, allowing academic researchers, robotics startups, and commercial enterprises to adapt, embed, and deploy the software without licensing fees.
To learn more, access the software, and review deployment documentation, visit openrobops.org.
About InOrbit.AI
InOrbit.AI is the leader in enterprise robot orchestration software and award-winning spatial intelligence. The company pioneered federated orchestration, enabling organizations running heterogeneous autonomous fleets to bridge the gap between business intent and physical execution. InOrbit developed and maintains OpenRobOps, an open-source, standards-compliant foundation for fleet operations, as a contribution to the global robotics community. Learn more at inorbit.ai.
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