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Why Robot-to-Robot Communication Is a Mess
Lucas and Luna dive into the hidden bottleneck slowing down industrial robotics: communication protocols. While robot hardware gets faster every year, the software standards that let robots talk to each other—and to factory management systems—are stuck in the 1990s. Lucas breaks down the specific problem of 'interoperability latency,' using the real-world example of a mid-size German auto parts supplier that had to install five separate middleware layers just to coordinate robots from ABB, KUKA, and Fanuc. Luna brings in a comparison to how the early internet solved protocol…
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