12/04/09 — NASA’s human-robotic systems communicate using Real-Time Innovations’ publish-subscribe middleware based on the Object Management Group’s Data Distribution Service for Real-time Systems (DDS) standard. Real-Time Innovations (RTI), providers of real-time middleware, announced that NASA is using RTI middleware to control a fleet of experimental robots. The NASA Human-Robotic Systems Project is developing four prototype robots at four major research centers. The robots share a network data architecture that uses RTI middleware. The Human-Robotic Systems Project includes four robots with four very different missions. NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., is building a robot called K10. Because it carries an array…