Founded in 2011 by Ross Diankov and Issei Takino, the company has built MujinController, which allows users to deploy and automate various applications for their industrial robots across manufacturing and logistics at a lower cost. MujinController currently supports more than 1,000 systems in production and has already been adopted by a number of its strategic partners, including robot original equipment manufacturers like ABB, Fanuc, KUKA, Yaskawa, Universal Robots and Kawasaki, Diankov said. Fort is working to keep humans safe from industrial robots