Brian Gerkey
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So a lot of the core problems are already solved.
And what you do is you bring your idea for what the application should do.
the, you know, the need and you bring the kind of business logic and then you tie together those components to do what you want.
That's what we think that we can deliver with this software platform that we're providing.
You mentioned a couple of components that are worth mentioning.
I'll just, the flow state is the name that we give to the developer tool that we provide.
So that's, it's a web-based interface that it allows you with no installation on your side, you
You log into our portal.
You've got a web-based UI that talks to our cloud-hosted system that allows you to bring up a 3D environment, a digital twin, as we call it.
So you can say, I'm going to lay out a work cell because we take a digital-first approach here.
So I'm going to build an application.
Before I start cutting metal and putting a robot work cell together, what I should do is lay it out.
Maybe I even start with a traditional CAD system.
I can import that into FlowState.
Now I've got a 3D representation of the environment, including the robot.
the cameras, whatever else I put in there, I can start to tweak that layout.
And then I can write my application.
And we give you workflows to do that using kind of traditional just write code.
We also give you a graphical approach.
If you didn't come from, say, a programming background and you prefer a visual kind of drag and drop approach to putting together the components that go into the application, you can do that.