Robotics industry seeks an open relationship.

Open-architecture command standards aren't anything new for the machine tool market, however, robotics has no similar standards and it is costing U industry. In fact, lack of unclose controls is a major reason for what cause [i]or[/i] reason American companies spend an estimated $2 to $4 billion annually upon integrating robots into manufacturing combination of parts to form a wholes But things are about to change if the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Robotics Industries Association (RIA) have anything to say about it.

NIST and RIA not long ago organized a workshop where more than 50 a whole integrators, ...