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Automate the Future Innovate with FANUC

Step inside the FANUC Robotics Innovation Lab, an automation hub built for collaboration. From exploring new technologies to solving complex automation challenges, this space is designed to support customers at every stage of their automation journey.
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Driving the Future of Automation at FANUC’s Innovation Lab

In the heart of FANUC America’s Southeast Michigan campus, lays 12,000 square feet of space dedicated to intelligent automation collaboration. As a nexus of smart manufacturing, the Innovation Lab serves as a proving ground for emerging technologies, a hub for industry collaboration and an inspiring space for evaluating new automation concepts, testing third-party technologies or scaling engineered solutions.

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Step Inside FANUC’s Innovation Lab

Every manufacturer faces unique challenges — and the Innovation Lab is built to tackle them head on. Customers bring their toughest automation questions, and FANUC engineers work collaboratively to design, test and validate potential solutions. Through Proof of Concept (POC) development, customers confidently move forward with automation investments.

Real-World Problems Are Turned Into Proven Solutions

Through deep-dive reviews of customer applications and pain points, and joint brainstorming , strategic solutions are developed. Proof-of-concepts are built out to validate performance, alongside the transparent evaluation of risks, benefits, and scalability.

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Collaborative Spot Welding

CRX Surface Finishing with Integrated Force Control

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A Closer Look: FANUC Integrated Dispense System

FANUC and worldwide fluid handling leader Graco have teamed up to reinvent dispense. Together, their standardized industrial automation solution eliminates redundant control systems, process variation and time wasted refilling the meter with the help of Graco’s compact continuous meter and FANUC’s integrated control.

Real-World Problems Are Turned Into Proven Solutions

Through deep-dive reviews of customer applications and pain points, and joint brainstorming , strategic solutions are developed. Proof-of-concepts are built out to validate performance, alongside the transparent evaluation of risks, benefits, and scalability.

CRX with Close Coupled FANUC Integrated Dispense

FANUC Integrated Dispense R-2000 with Close Coupled Meter

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Superior Process Control with FANUC Integrated Dispense

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Building and Scaling Real Automation Solutions

Once a concept is proven, the Innovation Lab becomes the launchpad for scalable automation. FANUC’s engineering team transforms validated ideas into robust, production-ready solutions that customers can deploy with confidence. From small manufacturers to global enterprises, this is where automation strategies take shape and grow.

CRX Collaborative Gaging

CRX Area Safety Scanner

CRX Electrical Connector Termination with 3DV Vision

CRX Singulation and Bin Pick

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