InOrbit.AI Releases OpenRobOps, an ISO 21423 Reference Implementation

Orchestrating fleets of mobile robots may soon become easier. InOrbit Inc. has been working to make the core operations layer of its software more accessible to developers.

The company released OpenRobOps, described as an open-source robot operations and fleet management software designed to support scaled deployments.

Florian Pestoni, founder and CEO of InOrbit.AI, asserted that OpenRobOps gives robotics developers a production-grade, open-source foundation to escape the build trap. It delivers the industry’s first ISO 21423 reference implementation and bridges the interoperability gap, he said.

Founded in 2017, InOrbit said it is a leader in enterprise robot orchestration software and spatial intelligence. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company claimed it pioneered federated orchestration, enabling organizations running heterogeneous fleets to bridge the gap between business intent and physical execution.

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InOrbit offers OpenRobOps as fleet operations foundation.

As fleets of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) grow, customers increasingly expect equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to provide full-featured fleet managers with common functionality.

According to Pestoni, many OEMs fall into the “build trap,” spending years developing and maintaining custom back ends, databases, and user interfaces instead of focusing on their core innovations.

After initially announcing OpenRobOps, or ORO, in February, InOrbit described the offering as a standards-compliant foundation for fleet operations and a contribution to the global robotics community. It provides a production-grade open foundation so developers can shift from recreating basic fleet management functionality to building and deploying useful robots.

“By providing a production-grade operations foundation out of the box, OpenRobOps allows teams to bypass years of back-end development,” InOrbit said. The company listed key features including:

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) lets teams manage telemetry sources, metrics, and alert rules 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.

“It applies to any robot — it doesn’t really matter if it has wheels, two legs, four legs, etc.,” Pestoni told The Robot Report. “This release levels the playing field, allowing more companies to offer complete offerings based on a proven technology.”

ORO supports upcoming ISO interoperability standard.

InOrbit said OpenRobOps includes a 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 helps OEMs build systems that comply with the new standard.

Pestoni said he has seen firsthand that federated orchestration is essential to scaling automation, based on working with leading enterprises in manufacturing, logistics, and other industries. He serves as a member of the ISO working group and representative for ANSI, the U.S. national body.

He added that he is proud of the collaborative work that led to this landmark international interoperability standard. With OpenRobOps, the company is helping take this from theory to market practice, he said.

Pestoni noted that OpenRobOps also has broader implications for end users interested in interoperability, as these robots can now be orchestrated by products like InOrbit Space Intelligence, which is a separate, paid offering.

Cousins compares ORO to ROS.

At Automate 2026, 10 different companies participated in a demonstration of multi-vendor orchestration based on InOrbit Space Intelligence, InOrbit.AI’s flagship product. This was the first public demonstration of ISO 21423.

OpenRobOps brings the technology powering those demonstrations to the open-source robotics community. InOrbit compared the contribution to 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.

Steve Cousins, executive director of the Stanford Robotics Center, member of the InOrbit.AI board of directors, and former CEO of Willow Garage, said the mission behind creating ROS was to give roboticists an open ecosystem so they could stop re-inventing basic device drivers.

He said OpenRobOps creates the same shift for robot operations and fleet management, while also enabling standards-based interoperability.

OpenRobOps is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing academic researchers, robotics startups, and commercial enterprises to adapt, embed, and deploy the software without licensing fees. InOrbit invited interested parties to visit ORO’s website to learn more, access the software, and review deployment documentation.