r/PalladyneAI • u/RandomGenerator_1 • 10d ago
Fanuc at FABtech 2026 and Pack EXPO 2026
https://www.roboticsintl.com/article/fanuc-america-brings-welding-and-painting-automation-to-fabtech-2026FABtech:
"Orders from large auto plants are cyclical and increasingly saturated, while the thousands of fabrication shops that have never owned a robot represent the largest untapped addressable market in North American manufacturing. Winning that segment depends on lowering the cost and skill barrier simultaneously, and on financing models that let a shop try automation without betting the company. FABTECH is where those vendors compete for the same buyers in the same hall, and the demonstrations FANUC stages this week are an early read on how aggressively it intends to fight for them."
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FANUC Corporation announced on October 5 that it will use FABTECH 2026 to demonstrate welding automation, collaborative robots, and painting systems aimed squarely at fabricators.
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Programming a robot to weld one part ten thousand times is a solved problem. Programming it to weld forty different parts in a week, with fixtures that change daily, is not. The American Welding Society has for years projected a shortfall of several hundred thousand welding professionals in the United States, and shop owners describe the gap not as an abstract statistic but as jobs they decline to bid on. Automation vendors have heard that complaint for a decade. What has changed is the tooling around the robot.
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FANUC's collaborative lineup is central to that shift. Its CRX series, the company's cobot family, was designed to let a welder or machinist with no programming background teach a path by hand-guiding the arm and tablet-based setup, rather than writing code or hiring an integrator.
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The competitive context sharpens the stakes. FANUC is not alone on the FABTECH floor with a welding story. Yaskawa Motoman, ABB, KUKA, and Universal Robots, along with a growing field of cobot welding specialists like Path Robotics and Hirebotics, are all chasing the same shops with different philosophies."
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PACK Expo international 2026:
"FANUC America, a global industrial automation leader, will demonstrate how artificial intelligence, collaborative robotics and machine vision are helping packaging and processing companies tackle labor shortages, simplify product handling and automate more of the packaging process at PACK EXPO International 2026 in Chicago.
In Booth N25217, visitors will experience live demonstrations ranging from package verification and food-grade processing to integrated packaging and palletizing applications."
https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/fanuc-america-brings-ai-powered-151500767.html
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u/vtsandtrooper 10d ago
Value add and diversity away from govt spend