
To make matters more complex, robots used in warehouses, mining, agriculture and other industrial environments have hyper-specific applications that are structured and are often repeated thousands of times. “Everyone kind of ends up building nearly everything from scratch, for nearly every application.”

“They’re really difficult, they break all the time and getting to a stable product is really hard,” Seltz-Axmacher said in a recent interview.

But Stefan Seltz-Axmacher, who previously founded and led the now shuttered autonomous vehicle startup Starsky Robotics, is trying to make a point. Requests for software are submitted via the IST Service Desk.It’s a bold declaration for a startup founder aiming to work with robots - or more accurately, the software that helps turn a tractor, tiller or forklift into an automated vehicle. Requesting new software is not a guarantee that it will be approved. Deans are asked for prioritization and approval of all requests. The deadline to submit requests for new software is November 1, all requests are reviewed in June, and notification of a decision will be sent by July 1. The Academic and Research Software Allocation Program is an annually funded program.


Other titles can only be installed upon request to the IST Service Desk. Certain software licenses also permit installation and use on personally-owned devices. For Faculty and Staffįaculty and staff can download and install many of the titles listed below on NJIT-owned computers on their own. Each computing lab has a variety of software applications installed and available for use. IST maintains over hundreds of computers across more than a dozen computing labs.
