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Vention provides a cloud-based platform that automates manufacturing from design to deployment in one workflow. Users design equipment in a browser-based 3D interface using thousands of modular parts, see real-time pricing and assembly estimates, and automatically validate designs; they can program automation with code-free tools or Python and deploy it directly in the browser. Orders are placed online and ship next day, with built-in collaboration and digital procurement that controls access to engineering files. The goal is to simplify and speed up building and deploying automated manufacturing equipment for innovative companies, differentiating itself by offering end-to-end design-to-deployment in a single platform and fast, predictable shipping along with team collaboration.
About Vention
Industries
Robotics & Automation
Industrial & Manufacturing
Enterprise Software
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Series D
Total Funding
$264.2M
Headquarters
Montreal, Canada
Founded
2016
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What believers are saying
- Vention raised $110 million on January 27, 2026, funding Physical AI expansion.
- The June 2026 FANUC and UR deals widen Vention’s addressable factory footprint quickly.
- End-of-line automation launched February 2026 promises four-week palletizers and twelve-week full systems.
What critics are saying
- ABB, FANUC, and Universal Robots can bundle Vention’s software advantages into native platforms.
- Rapid Operator AI depends on NVIDIA Isaac and Jetson, creating supply and roadmap dependence.
- If commissioning failures hit 2026 deployments, Vention’s platform promise collapses into an expensive demo.
What makes Vention unique
- Vention’s January 2026 platform spans design, simulation, deployment, and monitoring in one stack.
- Automate 2026 partnerships with FANUC and Universal Robots extend Vention across major robot fleets.
- Rapid Operator AI, launched March 16, 2026, productizes physical AI for deep bin picking.
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↑ 0%The robot you never build: why digital twins are reshaping automation projects. Table of Contents The most important robot on your production floor next year may be one that never exists physically. Across the industry this month, the story has shifted away from new hardware and toward something less visible but far more consequential: the simulation layer that decides whether a robotic cell works before a single bolt is turned. At Automate 2026 and in a wave of announcements since, the pattern is unmistakable. ABB has folded NVIDIA's Omniverse libraries into its simulation software. Vention rolled out a digital twin platform with expanded FANUC support, including AI-assisted programming and collision-free motion planning. FANUC itself, alongside Kawasaki and Stellantis, is anchoring industrial AI partnerships where imitation learning and factory-scale digital twins are moving from research slides into real commissioning workflows. Why simulation became the bottleneck. For two decades, the hard part of automation was the robot. That problem is solved. A FANUC arm will hit tight repeatability and run for years with almost no intervention. The hard part now is everything around it: reach studies, cycle time validation, gripper design, fixture layout, singularity avoidance, and the dozens of small integration decisions that historically only revealed themselves during commissioning - when changing your mind is expensive. Digital twins collapse that risk. Offline programming tools such as FANUC ROBOGUIDE let an integrator build the entire cell virtually, prove the cycle time, verify every reach, and generate the robot program - all before the equipment arrives on site. When AI-driven motion planning is layered on top, paths that used to take an engineer days to tune can be generated and validated in hours. What this changes for israeli manufacturers. This matters more in Israel than in most markets, for structural reasons. Israeli plants tend to run high-mix, lower-volume production: medical devices, defense components, electronics, food processing. The classic objection to automation here has never been "robots don't work" - it is "our product changes too often to justify the engineering." Simulation-first integration attacks that objection directly. When a cell can be re-validated virtually for a new part number in days rather than re-commissioned on the floor over weeks, the economics of a high-mix line change fundamentally. Changeover stops being a capital event and becomes a software task. There is a second benefit plant managers tend to appreciate immediately: certainty before commitment. A validated digital twin means the cycle time in the proposal is the cycle time you get. Payback calculations stop being estimates. The benchmark Israel should be watching. The International Federation of Robotics reports that Western Europe now averages a record 267 industrial robots per 10,000 manufacturing employees, with North America at 204 and South Korea well above 1,000. Global operational stock has passed 4.6 million units, and annual installations are on track to exceed 700,000 by 2028. Israeli industry competes with those manufacturers on export markets, on quality standards, and increasingly on delivery speed. Robot density is a proxy for output per worker - and the gap compounds every year it goes unaddressed. The tools that close it are now cheaper, faster to deploy, and considerably less risky than they were even two years ago. Assatec has been FANUC's exclusive partner in Israel since 1997, and Assatec build every system in simulation before it reaches your floor: reach studies, cycle time proof, and full offline programming, so what you approve is what you get. Considering automation but unsure whether your product mix justifies it? Let Assatec build the digital twin and show you the numbers before you commit. Talk to its engineering team Let's Talk Together Assatec will make it happen! Assatec write news that will make your mind move like a robot.
No-Code robot deployment: why FANUC's new AI platform changes the math for Israeli manufacturers. Table of Contents For years, the single biggest obstacle to factory automation hasn't been the robot itself - it's been the weeks of specialist programming needed to make it useful. That barrier just got significantly lower. At Automate 2026 in Chicago, FANUC America and Vention announced an expanded collaboration that brings FANUC's industrial and collaborative robots onto an AI-driven platform where deployment no longer requires a robotics engineer for every waypoint. What actually changed. The headline isn't a new robot - it's a new way to deploy the ones manufacturers already trust. Vention's platform now supports a broad slice of FANUC's lineup, including the CRX collaborative robots, LR Mate, LR-10iA, M-20iD and M-710iD series. The interesting part is how programming works. Instead of manually teaching dozens of waypoints, an operator simply defines a start point and an end point. The system scans the workspace and automatically generates a collision-free motion path, with digital-twin simulation to validate the whole cell before a single bolt is tightened. In practice this means the design, simulation, deployment and monitoring of a robotic cell all happen in one environment, using modular, pre-validated components. The result, according to both companies, is sharply reduced integration risk and faster production ramp-up - the two numbers that decide whether an automation project pays back in twelve months or thirty-six. Why this matters for Israeli manufacturers. Israel's manufacturing base is dominated by small and mid-sized plants - exactly the companies that have historically struggled to justify automation. Not because the robots were too expensive, but because the engineering hours to commission them were scarce and costly, and skilled robot programmers are in short supply nationwide. When a single line changeover can consume a specialist for a week, flexibility becomes a luxury. No-code, goal-driven programming flips that equation. A production manager who understands the process - but isn't a robotics expert - can define a task, simulate it, and validate it before committing floor space. For Israeli plants running high-mix, low-volume production, where lines are reconfigured constantly, that speed is the whole game. It turns automation from a one-time capital project into something closer to an everyday tool. The bigger picture. This fits a clear 2026 trend: the collaborative robot market has grown to roughly $11.3 billion, up 28% year over year, with cobots moving from light-duty tasks into full industrial-grade work. AI-driven, software-defined automation is the force pushing that adoption - and lowering the barrier to entry for smaller manufacturers in electronics, food and beverage, life sciences and logistics. The plants that capture this advantage first will set the productivity benchmark everyone else has to match. But a platform is only as good as the integration behind it. Choosing the right FANUC robot, designing a safe and efficient cell, and tuning it for real production conditions still demand deep expertise - and that's precisely where the gap between a demo and a working line is won or lost. As FANUC's exclusive partner in Israel since 1997, Assatec helps local manufacturers turn these advances into production reality - from selecting the right robot to deploying a fully integrated, optimized automation cell. Contact Assatec today to find out what AI-driven FANUC automation can do for your plant. Let's Talk Together Assatec will make it happen! Assatec write news that will make your mind move like a robot.
Vention showcased its software-defined automation platform at Automate 2026 under the theme "The Floor Runs on Us". The company's booth ran entirely on MachineMotion AI, powered by NVIDIA Jetson and Isaac technologies, demonstrating integrated hardware, software and Physical AI capabilities. Vention expanded partnerships with Universal Robots and FANUC, introducing collaborative and industrial robotics applications. With Universal Robots, Vention launched a co-branded platform for designing and quoting automation cells end-to-end. The FANUC collaboration featured AI-driven collision-free path planning and simplified deployment for CNC automation. Live demonstrations included deep bin-picking solutions, palletising systems, welding applications and modular workstations. Vention also hosted a developer workshop covering cloud-to-edge programming and no-code automation. The company has deployed over 25,000 machines across more than 4,000 factories worldwide.
Automate 2026: Vention announces collaborations with FANUC, Teradyne Robotics. Expands access to software-defined automation across collaborative and industrial robotics. By Robotics 24/7 Staff June 23, 2026 Vention said that its AI-powered automation platform enables FANUC industrial and collaborative robots to autonomously generate collision-free motion paths while providing integrated monitoring and remote support capabilities that simplify deployment and ongoing operation across a wide range of manufacturing applications. Stay up-to-date with news and resources you need to do your job. Research industry trends, compare companies and get weekly market intelligence with Robotics 24/7. Digital-first automation platform provider Vention announced two collaborations at Automate 2026 in Chicago. First, Vention announced an expanded collaboration with FANUC, focused on simplifying industrial robot deployment through AI-powered programming, digital twin technology and modular automation. Next, Vention announced a strategic collaboration with Universal Robots, a Teradyne Robotics brand, to accelerate the deployment of modular automation. FANUC partnership looks to bring industrial robots to Vention's AI-driven hardware and software platform. Vention said that its collaboration combines FANUC's industrial and collaborative robot portfolio with its unified automation platform, enabling manufacturers to design, simulate, deploy and operate robotic systems from a 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 extending Vention's platform to FANUC industrial robots, enterprise manufacturers in heavy industry can move from automation design to production much faster," said Étienne Lacroix, founder and CEO of Vention. "Combined with FANUC's proven reliability and long-standing track record in industrial automation, this partnership gives manufacturers a dependable path to scaling production automation." By integrating collision-free path planning, no-code and Python programming capabilities, the companies said that they are helping manufacturers reduce commissioning complexity while accelerating automation adoption. Powered by Foundation Stereo, an NVIDIA Isaac open model that helps robots see depth using stereo cameras, Vention said that the system generates a real-time 3D understanding of the workspace using a zero-shot stereo depth estimation, enabling MachineMotion AI to build a digital twin and automatically compute collision-free robot paths. These capabilities now extend across FANUC's robotic portfolio, enabling manufacturers to deploy a wide range of applications, from machine tending and pick-and-place to palletizing, welding, and high-speed industrial automation. "We're seeing strong demand from manufacturers for automation that's easier to deploy and faster to bring online, especially as labor challenges continue," said Dick Motley, director, authorized system integrator network at FANUC America. "Many companies want to automate but are looking for solutions that reduce complexity and are easier to implement. Vention's AI-powered platform helps customers deploy FANUC's industrial and collaborative robots, allowing them to get up and running more quickly while maintaining the performance and reliability they expect from FANUC." Vention, Universal Robots collaborate on digital twin creation platform optimized for UR robotic cells. Built on Vention's MachineBuilder software and centered around Universal Robots' family of industrial cobots, the initiative extends MachineBuilder to create a specialized platform that allows manufacturers to design, program and operate modular work cells within a unified digital environment. "This collaboration reflects our conviction that robotics adoption must become faster, simpler and more scalable for manufacturers of all sizes," Lacroix said. "By combining Vention's digital twin expertise with the Universal Robots capabilities, we are creating a new way to design modular robotic cells - one that shortens time to value while maintaining the flexibility required in modern manufacturing." Vention said that by utilizing its technology, Teradyne Robotics can provide its customers with a ready-to-configure digital environment, eliminating the traditional trial-and-error phase of automation, and allowing users to validate reach and modular framing before a single bolt is tightened. "For our customers, the real breakthrough is moving from concept to a production-ready solution with confidence," said Justin Brown, chief commercial officer of Teradyne Robotics. "This collaboration enables us to create high-fidelity simulations for our customers that reflect real-world kinematics. That means less trial and error, faster validation, and a shorter path from design to deployment." Vention said that the announcement builds on a successful multi-year collaboration with Teradyne Robotics. The company said that this next phase moves beyond hardware compatibility to deliver a deeply integrated digital experience tailored to the needs of collaborative robot users. Vention provided the following details related to its UR partnership: * UR-optimized design environment: A dedicated interface within Vention's platform that is pre-loaded with the technical specifications and capabilities of the entire UR cobot line. This ensures that every design is "build-ready" and technically viable. * Exclusive automation marketplace: Access Vention's ecosystem of Universal Robots-vetted UR+ components, from end-of-arm tooling to 7th-axis systems. * Empowering customers: Universal Robots' global teams can now provide customers with high-fidelity, 3D simulations in minutes. This enables closer collaboration during the design phase and a significantly faster path to proof of concept. * Validated template library: The platform features a suite of pre-configured automation templates for the highest-demand manufacturing applications - including end-of-line offerings, machine tending, pick-and-place and overhead linear-axis systems - all optimized for UR cobots. Latest in cobots. Latest in artificial intelligence. Latest robotics news.
Vention and FANUC America have announced an expanded collaboration integrating FANUC's industrial robot portfolio with Vention's AI-powered automation platform. The partnership enables manufacturers to design, programme, simulate and deploy robotic systems from a unified digital environment. The platform now supports multiple FANUC robot families, including CRX collaborative robots and various LR Mate and M-series industrial robots. Using AI-driven collision-free path planning powered by NVIDIA Isaac, the system automatically generates optimal robot motion paths, eliminating manual waypoint programming. The collaboration combines Vention's MachineMotion AI and MachineLogic software with FANUC's robotics, enabling applications from machine tending to welding and palletising. Live demonstrations at Automate 2026 in Chicago showcased the technology with FANUC CRX10iA and LR Mate 200iD robots.
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About Vention
Industries
Robotics & Automation
Industrial & Manufacturing
Enterprise Software
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Series D
Total Funding
$264.2M
Headquarters
Montreal, Canada
Founded
2016
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