FLEET ORCHESTRATION

One Fleet. Every Vendor. One Governor Deciding What Happens Next.

Heterogeneous Fleet Orchestration assigns the right job to the right robot — regardless of who built it — using operational history and live data, and dispatches help the moment something looks wrong.

WHAT IT IS — AND ISN’T

Fleet Orchestration Doesn’t Mean Formant Drives Your Robots.

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

The Fleet Orchestration Layer Governs What Happens Next.

From real-time telemetry to task coordination and exception escalation — across every vendor in your fleet.

Smart Task Assignment

Tracks historical performance per robot, per mission — speed, error rates, how a given unit has handled a given job before — alongside current location and status. Assigns the best-suited robot, or robots, coordinating multiple units on a single mission when the work calls for it.

Anomaly Detection & Response Dispatch

When telemetry shows something outside normal range, Formant flags it and sends a robot — or a person — to investigate and fix it, escalating to a human reviewer whenever the exception falls outside your policy thresholds.

Zero-Silo Visibility

One view across every vendor’s fleet — AMRs, quadrupeds, humanoids, arms — without a separate dashboard, update cycle, or incident format per manufacturer.

SEE IT IN ACTION

One Telemetry Stream. One Incident Workflow. One Operational Picture.

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.

4 → 1

Dashboards consolidated

Every Vendor

AMRs, arms, humanoids, quadrupeds

One Truth

Fleet-level operational picture

HUMAN CONTROL, BUILT IN

Routine Work Moves on Its Own. Exceptions Come Back to a Person.

Task assignment and exception handling aren’t unbounded. The goal isn’t removing people from fleet operations — it’s putting their judgment where it matters most.

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

Four Vendors, Four Dashboards, Four Formats. Formant Makes It One.

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.

Ready to Run Your Whole Fleet — Every Vendor — From One Place?

See how Fleet Orchestration turns a mixed-vendor deployment into a single, governed operation.