When one robot stops, your factory doesn't have to.
One OS for 100 robots — jams, failures, and cross-equipment conflicts
Large facilities face 2-4 daily stoppages, each taking 30 minutes to recover. Annual losses reach millions. Rovnou maintains 60% throughput even during failures — an operating system for your entire robot fleet.
- One robot down doesn't mean all robots down — turn 100-or-0 into 60
- Coordinates AGVs, conveyors, and vertical lifts — not just robots
- Your existing FMS stays. Rovnou layers on top in 2 weeks.
Problems happening daily at large-scale sites
Traffic converges at crossing points. One stop triggers a chain reaction
Waiting for the conveyor creates a queue that blocks the entire aisle
“The biggest bottleneck was congestion in front of the vertical conveyor”
No detour path means one failure cascades into a plant-wide shutdown
“Everyone says it's all or nothing. Why not run at 60%?”
What if your robots could coordinate like aircraft?
Rovnou plans the entire fleet's movement — assigning right-of-way, wait points, and timing so robots never block each other.
Technical details →
Built on peer-reviewed research
- PIBT: Okumura et al., IJCAI 2019 — Priority inheritance with backtracking for real-time coordination
- LaCAM: Okumura, AAAI 2023 — Search-based algorithm for quick multi-agent pathfinding
- MAPF Benchmarks: Stern et al., SoCS 2019 — Standard definitions and evaluation framework
Validated on standard benchmarks with up to 10,000 agents.
Read the PIBT paper →Note: Amazon has published similar centralized coordination research (Amazon Science, 2024).
Competitors
Centralized MAPF
Decentralized (rules / autonomous)
See the effect: Before/After
Zero deadlocks. Smooth coordination.
With Rovnou, traffic timing is optimized and deadlocks are prevented
Deploy in 3 steps
01Mapping
Understand traffic flows, intersections, and bottlenecks
02Integration
Connect with existing FMS/WMS to receive task data
03Go live
Rovnou optimizes routes and timing in real-time
What we measure
We track and compare these metrics during the pilot
Corridor Scenario: 50 Robots (Simulation)
Idle time
↓74%
Jam count
↓100%
Manual resets
↓100%
Tasks/hour
↑31%
Simulation data. Pilot results may vary by environment.
Today, robot traffic jams cost operators 15-40% of potential throughput
Rovnou delivers 20-30% throughput improvement
Idle Time
Time robots spend waiting, unable to move
Jam Count
Number of jams or deadlocks
Manual Resets
Human interventions or restarts
Tasks/Hour
Tasks completed per hour
Works with existing systems
Rovnou doesn't replace your existing FMS—it operates as an upper layer. Your FMS handles task assignment; Rovnou optimizes routes and timing.
Pricing that makes sense
$100 per robot per month
One AGV costs $50,000. For $100/month, Rovnou typically pays for itself in weeks.
Pilot
4 weeks
Free*
- Up to 20 robots
- Dedicated engineer
- Full metrics reporting
* For qualified operators
Production
Annual
$100/robot/month
- Unlimited robots
- SLA guarantee
- Dedicated support
- On-premises available
ROI Calculator
Monthly Rovnou cost
$5,000
Est. monthly savings
$77,000
ROI
15.4x
Est. annual savings
$864,000
Based on intervention cost model. Assumes $50/intervention, 2 interventions/robot/day, 22 working days/month. Actual results vary by environment.
Why can't your FMS solve this already?
Simple avoidance rules work fine with a few robots. But add more, and local decisions cause global jams. The fix isn't better rules — it's fleet-wide coordination.
| FMS Built-in | Custom Scripts | Rovnou | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Approach | Local avoidance | Heuristic rules | Centralized MAPF |
| 10 robots | Works | Works | Works |
| 50+ robots | Deadlocks | Fragile | Math guarantees |
| Multi-vendor | Vendor lock-in | Painful | Any FMS |
| Setup time | N/A | Months | < 2 weeks |
| Peer-reviewed | No | No | IJCAI / AAAI |
Note: Amazon has built centralized robot coordination internally (Amazon Science, 2024).
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