Fit the robot into your line and your budget

The software that ties robot, sensors and plant systems together, and the arm, gripper, cameras and compute chosen with evidence rather than from a catalogue.

Start a project How we choose models

The time per command at 30 commands a second. A model that sometimes takes 90 ms will miss it.: 33 msThe time per command at 30 commands a second. A model that sometimes takes 90 ms will miss it.
NVIDIA’s July 2026 Jetson price rise. Tutorials quoting older prices are out of date; we budget with current ones.: Up to 101%NVIDIA’s July 2026 Jetson price rise. Tutorials quoting older prices are out of date; we budget with current ones.
A six-axis research arm (AgileX PiPER) today, in a price band that used to be empty.: $1,999A six-axis research arm (AgileX PiPER) today, in a price band that used to be empty.

What we do

ROS and middleware integration
The software that ties robot, sensors and plant systems together.
- ROS 2 nodes, drivers and ros2_control
- Perception and planning exposed as services
- Bridges to PLCs and line controllers
- Containerized deployment, logging with rosbag2, and monitoring
Hardware selection
The right arm, gripper, cameras and compute, chosen with evidence.
- Arms, grippers and end-effectors
- Cameras and lighting
- Training GPUs and on-robot compute
- Options compared in simulation before purchase

Model or no model

Where should the model run?

Programmed approach

Real-time control loops on the robot controller
Safety logic in certified hardware and PLCs

Learned approach

Perception and policies on a GPU next to the cell
Smaller models on Jetson-class compute on the robot

How we choose

We set a time budget for every loop first: for example 33 ms per camera frame and 2 ms per tick of a 500 Hz controller. Then we pick the compute that meets it every time, not on average, within your network and power limits.

Example hardware we compare

List prices from our notes, September 2026. We compare options in simulation before you buy.

Item	What it is	List price
AgileX PiPER	6-axis arm, 1.5 kg payload	$1,999
UFACTORY xArm 6	6-axis arm	About $8,400 to $8,600
NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super	On-robot compute for small models	$399
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor	On-robot compute for larger models	$5,499