To move robots out of their cages and workcells, intelligent logic needs to leverage a combination of on-robot sensors, environmental sensors, and human intervention.
Working in Isolation
Physical and virtual cages confine robots to slow, segregated tasks — locking them out of higher-value work alongside humans and other machines.
Safety as an Afterthought
Robot engineers and operators stitch together makeshift solutions and treat safety certification as an afterthought— resulting in go-to-market delays.
Trillions in Extra Cost
Robot stops and slowdowns are prohibiting scale. Unplanned downtime costs Global 500 manufacturers 11% of their revenue—$1.4 trillion per year!
Scale Without a Safety Layer
A $9 trillion robotics opportunity is opening up worldwide, yet fewer than 20 companies will scale humanoids to production by 2028.
For the robotics industry to reach its full potential, it needs holistic deployments of safety, security, reliability, and efficiency. FORT enables that scale with solutions that give physical AI systems trust. Enough trust to scale in a world of humans and mixed fleets of robots working side by side for maximum productivity.
FORT’s Trust Layer sits between the robot and the people, environments, and standards it has to answer to, with flexible rules-based logic and a strategic lens in system design. We build solutions around three key pillars of worksite trust: Human-in-the-Loop Control; Inside-Out Safety; and Outside-In Safety
Even the most capable autonomous machine needs a reliable way for a person to take control. FORT's Trust Layer provides that in two ways:
Local, line-of-sight control
Offsite remote operation and intervention
Both run on the same SIL 3-certified safety infrastructure, delivered via rugged hardware, secure software, and a patented communication protocol built to work over any wireless network.
Whether the need is an edge case, a location change, routine maintenance, or an emergency stop, the result is one system for certified control that scales from a single onsite operator to fleet-wide offsite supervision.
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Trust starts on the machine itself. Inside-Out Safety is the onboard active safety logic at the core of FORT's Trust Layer, giving every system the ability to anticipate, detect, and respond to risk in real time.
FORT doesn't manufacture sensors; it builds the rules engine that turns sensor data into safety decisions, and that works in two ways:
Design with FORT from the start, using the rules engine to do more with fewer or lower-cost sensors and reduce BOM cost.
Bring an existing sensor stack already deployed in the field and add FORT's rules engine on top, with no sensor hardware changes required.
Either path turns existing or planned sensors into a configurable safety decision layer, and it's the foundation the rest of the Trust Layer builds on: a baseline of self-protection that holds even before outside data or human control enter the picture.
No machine can see everything on its own. Outside-In Safety extends FORT's Trust Layer with rules-based logic that draws on any sensor already in the environment, including cameras, lidar, fire safety systems, and building access controls.
That data gives robots real-time awareness of what's happening around them, so they can respond with both safety and efficiency in mind: slowing down, speeding up, rerouting, or stopping only when the situation calls for it. This means fewer false stops and slowdowns for mobile robots.
The result: mixed fleets of different of robots operating alongside people in dynamic worksites, in a way that maximizes both safety and productivity.
FORT's Trust Layer is the safety and control infrastructure that sits between a robot and the people, environments, and safety standards it has to work with. It's built around three elements: Human-in-the-Loop Control, Inside-Out Safety, and Outside-In Safety.
FORT delivers our Trust Layer through a combination of hardware, software, and services that work together to autonomous systems enough trust to operate alongside people.
Traditional safety systems are often static: a fence, a light curtain, an e-stop wired to a single machine. FORT's Trust Layer is dynamic and distributed. It's designed specifically to meet the needs of autonomous systems at scale, working across fleets and adapting to changing environments. This makes it possible to extend certifiable safety to robots and other machines that legacy safety systems were never built for.
The FORT Trust Layer helps robot builders and users to:
Eliminate the tradeoff between safety and efficiency: Traditional safety protocols can slow down operations with extra downtime. The Trust Layer is designed to optimize both safety and efficiency, so robots can operate at full capacity when it is safe to do so.
Enable safe mixed-fleet operations: Using one independent, machine-agnostic source of trust across an entire worksite means that machines from different vendors can work together safely and efficiently.
Empower human-robot collaboration: The Trust Layer is designed to get robots out of isolated zones and cages, putting them to work safely alongside people for maximum results.
To learn more about FORT's Trust Layer for physical AI and robotic systems, please get in touch here.
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