Dive summary:

• Ballista is an all-platforms operating system that DreamHammer Inc. says it will release this summer to bring all sorts of remotely controlled, unmanned vehicles into the same environment, with their specialties coming from applications that software developers create for each..
• The software, DreamHammer CEO Nelson Paetz says, will be like having Windows or the Mac operating system as a standard from which everyone can work to create particular applications.
• The place everyone expects Ballista to make a great difference is in control of military drones, for which each maker now has its own operating system, but unmanned vehicles for job sites could offer numerous opportunities.

From the article:

Jochen Teizer, assistant professor of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s school of civil and environmental engineering, says he sees automating control of robots on jobsites as a key part of the future of construction. ...