FAQ
Robotics codebases can get very large and robots are often deployed to areas with poor network connectivity. OSTree uses incremental updates and only pull in changes between versions which minismises network and storage requirements whilst still providing the safety of dual bank updates.
It can, you can build containers into your Yocto-based image and run them in whatever way you like (personally we like podman and systemd).
Robotics development inevitably requires modifications to the OS (e.g. bare-metal processes, devices, networking config, real-time patches, etc.) which containers often don't play well with.
- If you're early in the product development lifecycle and have less than 5-10 robots to manage, it may be simpler to use some combination of
ssh,rsync,git clone, etc. - If you don't update your software on a semi-regularly basis.
- If your robots don't have a semi-decent network connection.
- If you're building weaponised robots.
We run a hosted version where we charge a fee per robot per month depending on your fleet size. But we'll always have a free tier and a self-hosted version that don't cost anything.
Airbotics is focusing its energy on making shipping software to robots as good as it can be. It’s so important that we believe it deserves its own platform dedicated to it. There are plenty of great existing tools out there for managing how data should be collected from robots.
Software images are stored on AWS s3 in the EU.
Airbotics is currently not complaint but we plan to be SOC 2 Type II complaint at general availablity.
Airbotics manages keys used in Uptane to sign and verify software images.
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