en.Wedoany.com Reported - Canada's Vention and FANUC America Corporation announced an expanded partnership to extend its AI-driven automation platform from collaborative robots to industrial robot applications. By supporting FANUC America's industrial robot portfolio, the collaboration enables manufacturers to design, program, simulate, deploy, and operate collaborative and industrial robot applications within a single digital environment.
This partnership combines FANUC's industrial and collaborative robot portfolio with Vention's unified automation platform, allowing manufacturers to design, simulate, deploy, and operate robotic systems from a unified environment. The expanded platform now supports multiple FANUC robot series, including the CRX collaborative robot, LR Mate industrial robot, LR-10iA series, M-710iD series, and M-20iD series.
By integrating collision-free path planning, no-code, and Python programming capabilities, the two companies are helping manufacturers reduce commissioning complexity while accelerating automation adoption. The system is based on Foundation Stereo (an NVIDIA Isaac open model that helps robots perceive depth using stereo cameras), leveraging zero-shot stereo depth estimation to generate real-time 3D understanding of the workspace, enabling MachineMotion AI to build digital twins and automatically calculate collision-free robot paths. These capabilities have now been extended to FANUC's entire robot portfolio, allowing manufacturers to deploy a wide range of applications from machine tending, pick-and-place, palletizing, welding, to high-speed industrial automation.
Unlike traditional robotic systems that require extensive manual programming and custom integration, this joint solution enables users to design automation systems using modular, pre-validated components that work seamlessly together. Manufacturers can easily generate and verify logic, realistically simulate robot motion, and test cell interactions before deployment, significantly reducing integration risk and accelerating production ramp-up.
Vention CEO Étienne Lacroix stated that by extending the Vention platform to FANUC industrial robots, enterprise manufacturers in heavy industries can transition from automation design to production more quickly. Combined with FANUC's proven reliability and long track record in industrial automation, this partnership provides manufacturers with a reliable path to scale production automation.
Dick Motley, Director of FANUC America's Authorized System Integrator Network, noted that demand for automation that is easier to deploy and faster to go live remains strong, especially as workforce challenges persist. Many companies want to automate but are seeking solutions that reduce complexity and are easier to implement. Vention's AI-driven platform helps customers deploy FANUC's industrial and collaborative robots, enabling them to get up and running faster while maintaining the performance and reliability they expect from FANUC.
This launch highlights Vention's MachineMotion AI and MachineLogic ecosystem, introducing a goal-driven robot programming approach for both collaborative and industrial robots. Instead of manually programming robot paths point by point, operators simply define start and target points, and the system then automatically scans the workspace and calculates the optimal collision-free path between the two points. This goal-driven approach enables manufacturers to deploy more adaptive robotic applications that dynamically respond to changing production conditions, mixed SKU operations, and evolving factory layouts. The platform allows manufacturers to verify robot motion and automation logic before deployment, while accelerating commissioning and adapting more quickly to changing production demands.
Built on modular hardware and software components, the platform supports faster commissioning and scalable automation deployment, enabling rapid responses to new SKUs, fixtures, and production layouts. Powered by MachineMotion AI, the system combines machine vision and intelligent motion control to achieve flexible robotic automation in dynamic manufacturing environments.
The joint solution is being demonstrated live this week at Automate 2026 in Chicago. The FANUC booth (#1001) features a FANUC CRX10iA collaborative robot running Vention's Click & Customize machine tending solution (powered by MachineMotion AI), demonstrating automatic CNC machine tending with configurable end-of-arm tooling. The Vention booth (#2848) features a FANUC LR Mate industrial robot powered by MachineMotion AI and programmed via MachineLogic, demonstrating collision-free path planning using arm-mounted vision and autonomous motion generation.
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