Japanese Robotics Institute Selects Objective Interface Middleware for Robotics Platform

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has selected ORBexpress as the core communications architecture for AIST's new advanced robotics platform, OpenRTM-aist. This robotics framework is now available to Japanese industry for the development of advanced high-performance robotics systems.

Robotics developers use a standard communications architecture -- the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). ORBexpress is an Objective Interface Systems' (OIS) real-time CORBA product.

"A robot in the living room is more realistic than most of us would imagine," said Joe Jacob, senior vice president of OIS. "AIST is truly a worldwide leader in this area. Their robotics development platform will speed the design and delivery of high-performance robots that work cooperatively with people in order to enrich their quality of life. We are extremely honored to be working with them."

"Reflecting our core mission to offer a 'common platform technology for next-generation robots,' we have been working to develop a fundamental and infrastructure-level technology which accelerates R&D of next-generation robots," said Noriaki Ando, Dr. Eng., AIST. "Through our collaboration with OIS -- a company known for providing fast, mature and secure communications middleware for advanced embedded systems -- we are now able to provide a high-performance, secure robotics platform to developers of robotics systems."