A company that owns a thousand robots from ten manufacturers owns ten isolated fleets. Every vendor ships its own protocol, its own controller, its own console. Swarmonic is the coordination layer that makes all of them behave as a single synchronized system — with no integration work per device.
Before USB, every peripheral needed its own port and its own driver. Robotics is still in that era. The result is that fleet capability does not compound — buying a second brand does not give you a bigger fleet, it gives you a second fleet.
Each manufacturer means another SDK, another security model, another support contract, and another console for the operator to watch.
Vendor A's collision avoidance cannot see vendor B's robots. In a shared space, the only real safety layer is a human watching.
Operational experience stays trapped inside one vendor's fleet, and inside one site. The same lesson gets paid for repeatedly.
Swarmonic is not a dashboard that aggregates vendor APIs. These are the mechanisms the patents cover, and each one only becomes a problem in a mixed-vendor fleet.
Scan a code or let the device announce itself. Swarmonic identifies the manufacturer, resolves a driver, negotiates what the machine can do, then physically tests it with a small commanded movement to confirm the device is telling the truth before it is trusted with work. Unrecognised manufacturers onboard through a generic profile rather than being rejected.
A drone on LTE sits ~140 ms behind an arm on PROFINET. Send both the same command at the same instant and they act at different moments — in a shared workspace, that is a collision. Swarmonic measures each device's latency continuously and dispatches early by exactly that margin, so they move together in real time.
Coordination patterns learned in a warehouse are abstracted and applied to a different site, a different industry, a different mix of hardware. Transfers are checked for dimensional consistency, so a timing parameter can never be written into a distance constraint.
State the outcome — "inspect the north elevation and report defects." Swarmonic decomposes it into tasks, matches each to a capable device, propagates kinematic constraints, and clears every generated command through five safety stages. A manual path stays open for developers who want direct control.
The demo on this site runs the actual orchestration engine. The robots are simulated because we do not have ten manufacturers' hardware on a desk — but onboarding, capability negotiation, synchronisation, collision avoidance, SCP message signing and the attestation chain are all executing for real. Every number shown is read back out of the runtime.
The coordination problem is identical everywhere: heterogeneous machines, one shared space, one intended outcome. Construction is a vertical, not the product.
Multiple robot classes from multiple suppliers under one operational picture, with an auditable command record.
AMRs, forklifts and arms from different vendors sharing aisles and handoffs without a per-vendor integration.
Progress capture and verification across drones, crawlers and legged platforms — optionally tied to payment release.
Mixed ground and aerial equipment coordinated over intermittent rural connectivity.
Each specification carries 20 formal claims — three independent claims written as a system, a method, and a computer-readable medium, so coverage holds whether a competitor ships hardware, software, or a subscription.