The results of the Airalab team work in 2018
To sum up the work during 2018, let’s roll back a little. Namely, let’s go back to May, 2017, when the first funds for the project development were raised. These funds were allocated by the community around Airalab for the following purposes:
- creation of the Robonomics platform;
- working on the whitepaper;
- Robonomics token generation event.
The first 2 tasks are fully performed, the results can be found on our website and in our blog. The third task is in the final stage of development, you can track the status of the TGE XRT here.
At the beginning of the year, we launched the game “Industry 4.0” that demonstrates how the movement of investors’ capital can directly control autonomous factories and industrial controllers through Robonomics, also we have tested the communication protocol.
Gaka-chu or The “Robot-Artist” project that had started in the summer of 2017, manifested the first visible results: our Gaka-chu drew his first picture with a brush and paint. This project will appear in a long-read post in our blog soon. Now you can see the process of creating a picture below:
We carried out a workshop dedicated to the economy of robots at the European Parliament in Brussels with scientists from all over the world and European politicians. You can find presentations of the workshop speakers on our YouTube channel.
Together with Drone Employee and DAO IPCI, Airalab RUS implemented a demonstration of the use of Robonomics in IoT of smart cities: from air quality sensors at playgrounds to drones for the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
We prepared our engineering service for industrial orders and technical user support, completed a project for an oil and gas customer, and now have a couple of ongoing discussions about projects for smart buildings, transport, logistics, supply chains and energy.
We held our second summer engineering school with the deployment of Robonomics over Ethereum and a mesh network, connecting sensors and robots to it, on the premises of the Technopark “Zhigulevskaya Valley”. Then, we moved to the Kopylovo Peninsula to test the results obtained during training in practice, as well as to discuss issues related to the use of web3 technologies in the field of smart cities, manufacturing and Industry 4.0, at round tables. The conference ended the show of drones accompanied by the live music live music. You can check out what was happening there here.
We launched a beta version of Robonomics in the Ethereum mainnet. We have significantly improved stability and passed the stages of alpha and beta testing of key components of the platform: the web3 interface for Haskell hs-web3, the provider, the communication protocol robonomics_comm, and the AIRA distro generally. Along the way, we implemented support for ROS with the Nix purely functional package manager and the declarative OS on its basis — NixOS. We started work on documentation for developers and prepared tutorials. Also we engaged OpenZeppelin contracts in Robonomics smart contracts, passed two independent audits of our smart contracts. We implemented JavaScript SDK robonomics.js for developing user interfaces.
More than five hackathons took place, our latest victory was held at the Energy Blockchain Hackathon in Bern with a prize from the Energy Web Foundation.
We took part in blockchain and industrial exhibitions and conferences, including DevCon4, Consensus, IoT Solutions World Congress, Smart City Expo. At the last one, COP24, the UN Climate Conference, we presented the solution of our partner, DAO IPCI, that is based on Airalab technologies, reducing the costs of launching the climate program 10,000 times and speeding up the process several times.
Our Research Department and its leader Aleksandr Kapitonov, one of Airalab’s co-founders, did a great job in the development and popularization of scientific disciplines related to our team’s development. In 2018, 4 large research programs were conducted, which were published in indexed magazines. They can be found at this link in the “Scientific research” section. In addition, these studies were presented as reports at several international conferences:
Also, a lot of work has been done on the developing of the “Services in Distributed Systems” educational courses for ITMO University in St. Petersburg, which will be launched next year.
For those who want more details about the work done by the team in 2018, I recommend reading the “Developer’s Diaries” section from Airalab founder Sergey Lonshakov (these articles can be read in Russian here). I also recommend you to read the monthly column “Airalab News” in the blog of the team, which contains not only the technical details of the team’s work, but also publications, videos and useful articles.
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