InOrbit.AI releases OpenRobOps, an ISO 21423 reference implementation, under the Apache 2.0 license

InOrbit.AI has been working to make the core operations layer of its software more accessible to developers. The company initially announced OpenRobOps in February, and today's release marks a contribution to the global robotics community. Founded in 2017, InOrbit.AI is a Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of enterprise robot orchestration software and spatial intelligence. It has claimed that it pioneered federated orchestration, enabling organizations running heterogeneous fleets to bridge the gap between business intent and physical execution.

The company frames OpenRobOps as a way for developers to escape the "build trap," where OEMs spend years developing and maintaining custom back ends, databases, and user interfaces instead of focusing on core innovations. It lists features including high-throughput telemetry ingest designed for unreliable networks, real-time spatial tracking with a robot-locking mechanism for safe manual intervention, configuration as code, automated incident remediation, edge-to-cloud hybrid architecture, and native Open-RMF interoperability. The software also includes a reference implementation of ISO 21423, an upcoming interoperability standard for industrial mobile robots and fleet managers. Florian Pestoni, founder and CEO of InOrbit.AI, who serves on the ISO working group and as an ANSI representative, said he is proud of the collaborative work that led to the standard and that OpenRobOps helps take it from theory to market practice.

At Automate 2026, 10 different companies participated in the first public demonstration of ISO 21423, using multi-vendor orchestration based on InOrbit Space Intelligence, InOrbit's flagship product. OpenRobOps brings that technology to the open-source community. Steve Cousins, executive director of the Stanford Robotics Center and a member of InOrbit.AI's board, compared the contribution to the introduction of the Robot Operating System (ROS), saying OpenRobOps creates the same shift for robot operations and fleet management while enabling standards-based interoperability. Whether OpenRobOps achieves that scale likely hinges on adoption by OEMs and developers, and on how quickly ISO 21423 itself is finalized and embraced across the industry.