Vention and FANUC Expand Collaboration on AI-Powered Industrial Robot Deployment

Vention and FANUC America have expanded their collaboration to simplify industrial robot deployment through AI-powered programming, digital twin technology, and modular automation. The enhanced platform combines FANUC's industrial and collaborative robot portfolio with Vention's unified automation ecosystem, enabling manufacturers to design, simulate, deploy, and operate robotic systems from a single, unified environment.

The expanded platform now supports multiple FANUC robot families, including CRX collaborative robots, LR Mate industrial robots, LR-10iA series robots, M-710iD series robots, and M-20iD series robots. By integrating collision-free path planning alongside no-code and Python programming capabilities, the collaboration is designed to reduce commissioning complexity and accelerate automation adoption across flexible manufacturing operations.

The system relies heavily on Vention's MachineMotion AI and MachineLogic ecosystem to introduce a goal-driven approach to robotic programming. Rather than manually configuring paths waypoint by waypoint, operators simply define start and end targets. The system automatically scans the workspace and computes the optimal path, allowing robots to react dynamically to changing production conditions, mixed-SKU operations, and evolving factory floor layouts.

To achieve real-time environmental depth perception, the platform integrates Foundation Stereo, an NVIDIA Isaac open model. This architecture uses zero-shot stereo depth estimation from stereo cameras to build an accurate digital twin of the workspace, feeding data to MachineMotion AI to automatically map out collision-free motion paths.

Built on modular hardware and software components, the combined platform supports diverse factory applications ranging from machine tending and pick-and-place operations to palletizing, welding, and high-speed industrial manufacturing. This allows operators to test cell interactions and validate logic before deployment, lowering integration risk.

Vention and FANUC are showcasing live demonstrations of this integrated solution at Automate 2026 in Chicago. At Booth 1001, FANUC is displaying a CRX10iA collaborative robot running Vention’s Click & Customize Machine Tending Solution. Meanwhile, Vention is showcasing a FANUC LR Mate industrial robot at Booth 2848, demonstrating autonomous collision-free path planning using on-arm vision systems.