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.
Innovation Lab Entrance
FANUC Innovation Lab Logo

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.

Innovation Lab CRX-10iA-L Sanding

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.

 

FANUC Bolt Assembly with Inbolt

 

Collaborative Spot Welding

 

CRX Surface Finishing with Integrated Force Control

Innovation Lab FANUC Solution Studio

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 with Close Coupled FANUC Integrated Dispense

 

FANUC Integrated Dispense R-2000 with Close Coupled Meter

 

CRX Emblem Installation

 

Superior Process Control with FANUC Integrated Dispense

 

Continuous Flow Metering Pump Quick Swap Design

CRX-30iA Collaborative Mobile Dispense Cart

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.

Explore the Dispense Cart

Innovation Lab FANUC Employee

Experimenting With New Tools and Emerging Technologies

The Innovation Lab is where ideas meet experimentation. This is the space where customers explore emerging technologies, evaluate third-party tools and see how new concepts integrate seamlessly with FANUC robots, with rapid testing to understand feasibility, performance and ROI. Working side by side with FANUC’s engineering team, manufacturers gain early insight into the capabilities that will shape the next generation of automation.

 

CRX Collaborative Gaging

 

CRX Area Safety Scanner

 

CRX Electrical Connector Termination with 3DV Vision

 

CRX Singulation and Bin Pick

 

CRX Gear Mesh

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