Updating Robots in the Field

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0200

Ask a robotics company, especially a young one, how software gets onto a robot that’s already at a customer site, and the answer usually is someone driving there, accessing the robot, pulling the code and getting it to run, watching the robot move for a minute, then moving on to the next one.

The reason is lack of awareness rather than carelessness. How many robotics companies have a DevOps engineer on the team? Most are led by roboticists and researchers who can make anything happen on a few robots. So a great deal of sophisticated software gets written, and then moved around manually.

Robot-Fleet on David Bensoussan

Updating Robots in the Field