AutoCore Launches AutoRobo Robot Platform, Bridging the 'Last Mile' from Prototype to Mass Production

All-in-One Hardware-Software Integrated Platform Accelerates Robot Deployment from Experimental Prototypes to Commercialization
2025-11-18
AutoCore

[NANJING, China] – [November 18, 2025] – AutoCore, a leading provider of intelligent mobility and robotics platform solutions, today announced the launch of AutoRobo, its production-ready robot platform. This all-in-one integrated hardware-software solution deeply integrates a hardware platform optimized for scalable deployment with a production-grade software stack. It aims to help enterprises eliminate engineering bottlenecks, significantly shorten time-to-market, and enhance full lifecycle reliability and security, thereby smoothly and rapidly advancing innovative prototypes to commercial mass production.

In the process of transforming innovative prototypes into scalable products, many robotics projects are often hindered by "last-mile" engineering challenges such as unstable communication performance, high hardware-software integration complexity, and a lack of OTA and security capabilities. While open-source stacks (like ROS 2) offer flexibility during the prototype phase, their performance bottlenecks and uncertainties in commercial field deployments often require massive engineering resources to compensate. AutoCore's AutoRobo provides a production-ready, end-to-end solution designed to eradicate these obstacles.


"AutoRobo's goal is to provide a solid, trustworthy foundation for robot productization, allowing customers to entrust us with the underlying engineering complexities and thus focus 100% on product differentiation and core algorithm innovation," said Zhang Yang, CEO of AutoCore.


Core Capabilities – A Full-Stack Platform Built for Scalable Mass Production

AutoRobo encapsulates complex underlying technology into user-friendly platform services, enabling developers to build stable, efficient, and secure robot applications without getting bogged down in intricate details.

Fusion of Determinism and High Performance: Production-Grade Operating System AutoCore.OS

AutoRobo is based on an innovative "dual-kernel" heterogeneous computing architecture, achieving perfect isolation and efficient collaboration between deterministic real-time tasks (such as microsecond-level motion control) and high-throughput non-real-time tasks (such as AI vision and multi-sensor fusion) on a single chip. At the kernel level, it introduces a real-time kernel and integrates the AutoCore EtherCAT master protocol, providing microsecond-level control for multi-axis servo systems. In the non-real-time domain, it leverages the Linux kernel to enable efficient cross-domain IPC mechanisms. It offers a complete robot basic software stack, including commercial-grade high-performance AutoCore DDS and AutoCore gPTP protocol stacks. AutoRobo injects essential capabilities for robot deployment from prototype to mass production, including a system-level health management mechanism, an application runtime management framework, system diagnostics, data encryption and decryption services, a system sleep/wake-up mechanism, parameter configuration and calibration mechanisms, a lightweight resource isolation and access control sandbox, and Software Over-the-Air (OTA) updates. By fundamentally solving core issues such as communication jitter and uncertainty in complex network environments, poor scheduling performance for complex collaborative tasks, and poor system stability often encountered with open-source ROS 2 solutions, AutoRobo perfectly bridges the gap from prototype to mass production using open-source ROS 2, providing a predictable, manageable, and rock-solid reliable foundation for robot commercialization.

Hardware Platform Built for Scalable Deployment

AutoRobo selects the Qualcomm IQ-9075 high-compute platform, offering powerful edge computing capabilities to meet the demands of increasingly complex AI algorithms. The platform features pre-integrated and pre-validated rich interfaces including EtherCAT, Ethernet (with TSN), CAN, and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, enabling seamless connection to mainstream chassis, robotic arms, LiDAR, and various sensors. This "pre-integrated, pre-validated" design saves customers months of hardware selection and driver adaptation work, significantly reducing integration costs and project risks.

Full Lifecycle Reliability and Security

For large-scale robot cluster commercial operations, AutoRobo provides a comprehensive suite of enterprise-grade functions. From a defense-in-depth information security system supporting secure boot, data encryption, and end-to-end access control, to continuous health monitoring and fault self-healing mechanisms ensuring long-term stable operation, and reliable OTA capabilities for remote feature iteration and security patch updates, AutoRobo safeguards robots throughout their entire lifecycle, meeting the stringent 7x24 operational requirements of commercial field environments.

Accelerating Application Development and Deployment

Beyond the underlying platform, AutoRobo offers a series of out-of-the-box and deeply optimized upper-layer application modules. It features built-in, field-validated algorithm packages and natively integrates optimized frameworks including MoveIt! and NAV2. Developers can rapidly achieve high-precision autonomous navigation and complex multi-axis robotic arm collaborative control (with microsecond-level synchronization accuracy) without starting from scratch, allowing them to focus their energy on business logic and scenario innovation, achieving "out-of-the-box, rapid time-to-market."

Target Customers and Typical Application Scenarios

AutoRobo targets Robot OEMs, system integrators, and innovative teams pursuing rapid productization. It is an ideal choice for developing next-generation Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR), collaborative robots, delivery robots, and commercial service robots. By offloading common underlying engineering challenges to the platform, customers can invest valuable R&D resources into core value-creating aspects such as product definition, algorithm optimization, and user experience enhancement.

About AutoCore

AutoCore is a leading provider of intelligent mobility and robotics platform solutions, specializing in production-ready, scalable hardware-software platforms and engineering services. We help partners bridge the gap from prototype to commercial deployment, accelerating the advent of the intelligent era.