What Your Robots Aren’t Telling You: Why Today’s Observability Tools are Failing the Field
For robotics applications to achieve high availability and reliable performance, the industry must first establish much higher standards of
Ian Sherman is Head of Software at Formant, a company building cloud infrastructure for robotics. Prior to Formant, Ian led engineering teams at Google X and Bot & Dolly. The through line of his career has been tool building, for engineers and artists alike. He’s inspired by interdisciplinary collaboration of all types; currently this takes the form of applying patterns and practices from distributed systems operations to emerging applications in robotics. Ian earned his BA in Computer Science from Brown University.
For robotics applications to achieve high availability and reliable performance, the industry must first establish much higher standards of