WHAT IT IS — AND ISN’T
Each robot keeps its own navigation, perception, and motor control — built by its manufacturer, running exactly as designed. Formant will never direct joint axes, handle obstacle avoidance, or run inference on-device. That’s a deliberate line, not a limitation.
What Formant Doesn’t Do
Direct joint axes, handle obstacle avoidance, or run inference on-device. The reasoning behind fleet-level decisions is too large, too slow, and too remote for real-time hardware control.
What Formant Governs
Which robot does which job, when, and what to do the moment something looks wrong — across every vendor in your fleet, not just one. One level up from the hardware.
One Permissions Layer Across All Vendors
Every assignment and escalation runs through the same permissions and approval settings your team controls — regardless of which manufacturer built the robot receiving the task.
HOW IT WORKS
From real-time telemetry to task coordination and exception escalation — across every vendor in your fleet.
Smart Task Assignment
Anomaly Detection & Response Dispatch
Zero-Silo Visibility
SEE IT IN ACTION
Watch Fleet Orchestration in Practice
SEE IT IN PRACTICE
A distribution center running AMRs from one manufacturer, arms from another, and a humanoid pilot from a third isn\’t unusual — it\’s the ordinary shape of large-fleet buying.
Left alone, that\’s four dashboards, four update schedules, and four incident formats to reconcile by hand. Formant normalizes all of it into one telemetry stream, one incident workflow, and one operational picture — so the team running the fleet sees one fleet, not four.
HUMAN CONTROL, BUILT IN
Role & Device-Scoped Permissions
Every action runs against role- and device-scoped permissions your team configures. What a given operator can assign or escalate is always bounded.
Approval Thresholds You Set
Anything outside policy thresholds comes back to a human reviewer before it goes further. Routine work moves automatically; exceptions surface immediately.
Human Judgment Where It Matters
Fleet operations still run through people. The orchestration layer just ensures that human attention lands on decisions that require it, not on reconciling four vendor dashboards.
BUILT FOR FLEETS WITH MORE THAN ONE VENDOR
This is the pillar built directly for enterprises running robots from multiple vendors. A fleet with robots from four manufacturers has four dashboards, four update mechanisms, four incident formats, and no fleet-level truth — the daily problem no single vendor\’s bundled software is built to solve.
Formant replaces all four with one — one telemetry stream, one incident workflow, one assignment layer, one permissions model. Your fleet is one fleet.
See how Fleet Orchestration turns a mixed-vendor deployment into a single, governed operation.