In the simplest terms, a command is a directive sent to a device to perform a specific task. With the Formant platform, one can issue any and all sorts of remote commands, in a durable manner. These commands can be broken down into the distinct categories: built-in commands and custom commands. Here’s how the two differ:  Built-in …

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Formant aims to make even the fine-tuning of robotics operations possible from a remote setting. In doing so, we’ve developed an intuitive interface through which engineers can essentially “get under the hood” of your application from afar, and reconfigure essential applications directly within the Formant interface.  Put simply, remote application configuration is a way to …

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Robots are commonly deployed behind what are known as network address translation (NAT) devices. These important security devices restrict the methods that can be used to gain access to the robot. Most notably, one cannot dial directly into a robot, since it does not have a static, global address and port. The purpose of this …

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In part-1 of this blog, we explained the goals, determinants and a summary of the results from the network constrained tests we ran on streaming robot data. In this blog, we will walk through the detailed observations and improvements we made based on the outcome of the tests. Observations TCP Connection Churn We instrument all of our …

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