Networking Software for Robots: Five Things to Measure Before Installing

A Buyer’s Checklist for Networking Software on Robots Networking software for robots has to be measured on the robot, with the robot’s real workload running. The software shares the onboard computer with perception, planning and logging. Five measurements decide whether a package fits. The five are CPU and memory under load, behavior when an internet connection breaks, routing control, management … Read More

Robot Fleet Connectivity: Fleet Data Still Has to Cross a Radio

Why Robot Fleet Connectivity Matters as Much as Autonomy Robot fleet connectivity decides whether data leaving a robot arrives on time. Every change of network path costs measurable time. A Wi-Fi re-authentication on an 802.1X network can take hundreds of milliseconds. A TCP upload can sit idle for seconds after the internet connection returns. An MQTT broker with a 60-second … Read More

Watch Now: Why Did SpaceX’s Starshield Crash Every Drone over 100mph?

Speedify Tech Talk: SpaceX's Starshield crashed every 100mph drone

Last week Ukraine’s military satellite terminals stopped working on anything moving faster than 100 miles an hour, but the outage wasn’t Starlink. Alex from Speedify explains why it was actually Starshield, the separate SpaceX constellation built for the US military, and why that distinction decides who controls the switch. He also gets into the part almost nobody noticed: ordinary Starlink … Read More

Drone-in-a-Box Connectivity: Telemetry Over Cellular Now, Imagery Over Base Wi-Fi Later

Two Drone Data Streams With Different Connectivity Needs Drone-in-a-box connectivity splits into two kinds of data that share almost nothing. Telemetry from the autopilot (position, attitude, battery, radio status) runs at a few kilobytes per second. Telemetry goes stale within seconds and needs a live cellular connection during the flight. Imagery from the camera runs to gigabytes per flight, often … Read More