Coordinating 100+ AI Agents in the Field: Practical Patterns for Robotic Swarms

Introduction We shipped our first 10-robot demo and thought the hard part was solved. Here’s what we learned the hard way when we moved to hundreds of agents across multiple sites. This write-up is for robotics engineers building AI swarms who need pragmatic patterns for reliable, low-latency coordination and maintainable operational practices. The Trigger Everything looked fine in the lab. Latency was low, commands were acknowledged, and logs said 'success'. Then we deployed to...