Modulr provides a cloud‑native, web‑based teleoperation platform that lets operators control any robot type through a unified cockpit with sub‑500 ms latency via WebRTC. The service includes zero‑trust encryption, role‑based access, session analytics, and a marketplace for pay‑per‑use robot rentals and plug‑and‑play AI modules, all delivered as a SaaS subscription.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Robotics teams often rely on bespoke, hardware‑specific control panels that do not scale across heterogeneous fleets, leading to high integration overhead, inconsistent user experiences, and limited remote accessibility. Additionally, secure, low‑latency teleoperation and transparent usage tracking are lacking, hindering safe deployment in mission‑critical environments.
Solution
Modulr delivers a cloud‑native teleoperation platform that unifies robot control into a single web‑based cockpit, supporting any robot type and input device (keyboard, joystick, VR/AR, haptics, ROS commands). The service leverages a WebRTC‑optimized pipeline to achieve sub‑500 ms round‑trip latency while enforcing zero‑trust, end‑to‑end encryption for every session. Built‑in session analytics, audit trails, and role‑based access controls give operators full visibility and accountability. A marketplace layer lets robot owners list idle assets and earn credits, while renters can discover, provision, and pay per‑use without purchasing hardware. The platform also exposes plug‑and‑play AI, data, and compute modules, enabling real‑time inference and data‑driven decision making across the fleet. All capabilities are delivered via a SaaS subscription with usage‑based billing, allowing enterprises to scale operations globally while maintaining security and performance guarantees.
Target Audience
Primary customers are enterprise robotics teams—industrial automation, logistics, defense, healthcare, and entertainment providers—that need secure, low‑latency remote control of diverse fleets. A secondary audience includes third‑party operators and service providers who wish to rent robot capacity on a pay‑per‑use basis.
Features
- Web‑based cockpit with customizable UI that abstracts heterogeneous robot APIs into a unified control surface.
- Sub‑500 ms end‑to‑end latency achieved through WebRTC streaming and edge‑proxied compute nodes.
- Zero‑trust architecture with TLS 1.3 encryption, per‑session keys, and granular role‑based access controls.
- Multi‑modal input support: keyboards, joysticks, VR/AR headsets, haptic devices, and direct ROS command injection.
- Real‑time session analytics, audit logs, and safety guardrails (e‑stop, geofencing, rate limits).
- Marketplace for peer‑to‑peer robot rental, with credit‑based accounting and transparent per‑minute pricing.
- Plug‑and‑play AI and data services (model deployment, streaming telemetry, edge inference) integrated via REST and gRPC APIs.
- Scalable cloud‑edge infrastructure that auto‑provisions compute and storage resources based on workload demand.