A Unified Management and Control Plane for Cloud Native Robots Wi... Sitong Mao, Huan Wei & Yin Ding

This talk focuses on the integration of cloud-native technologies in robotics through KubeEdge, presented by Sitong Mao from Huawei, Huan Wei from Hangzhou HarmonyCloud Technologies, and Yin Ding from Broadcom. The speakers discuss how containerization, microservices, and elastic scaling can enable robots to operate efficiently in complex environments, while addressing the limitations posed by the lack of a unified management and control plane in industrial automation. They present advancements from KubeEdge SIG Robotics and showcase how Kubernetes-native patterns enhance robot intelligence and reliability. Additionally, the session highlights developer-friendly interfaces that facilitate cloud capabilities for perception, planning, and collaboration among multiple robots, ultimately leading to improved availability, scalability, and lifecycle management.