I was simply wondering how I would approach robot fleet deployment if I were starting today. I'm doing some testing and writing it out to see where it goes.
The requirements:
1. Compliance: prove what is running where, to a customer's security team or a regulator
2. Speed: ship a fix to the whole fleet the day you have it, not the month you have it
3. Security: know which keys open which robot, and sign what you install
4. Control: stop a rollout, roll one back, and know the state of every machine
5. Visibility: know a robot is degrading before the customer phones you about it
Most of the conversation in robotics sits around hardware and AI and less is about how to ship and maintain them.
Some companies I talked to in the past are still using Founders' time bash scripts or ansible to deploy their robots. It's 2026, we must do better.
This is the intro, it looks at why updating machines by hand gets harder as a fleet grows and explaining what are the requirements.
Very much a work in progress. I'd be glad to hear from anyone who's been through it.
davidbensoussan•59m ago
The requirements:
1. Compliance: prove what is running where, to a customer's security team or a regulator 2. Speed: ship a fix to the whole fleet the day you have it, not the month you have it 3. Security: know which keys open which robot, and sign what you install 4. Control: stop a rollout, roll one back, and know the state of every machine 5. Visibility: know a robot is degrading before the customer phones you about it
Most of the conversation in robotics sits around hardware and AI and less is about how to ship and maintain them.
Some companies I talked to in the past are still using Founders' time bash scripts or ansible to deploy their robots. It's 2026, we must do better.
This is the intro, it looks at why updating machines by hand gets harder as a fleet grows and explaining what are the requirements.
Very much a work in progress. I'd be glad to hear from anyone who's been through it.