Palladyne AI Corp., a U.S.-based defence and industrial technology company delivering embodied AI-powered collaborative autonomy solutions, advanced avionics, precision-manufactured components, UAVs, and advanced aerospace engineering services, and FANUC America, a global leader in industrial automation and robotics, announced a strategic collaboration focused on advancing the next generation of intelligent robotic automation.
The collaboration brings together FANUC America’s industry-leading industrial robot portfolio with Palladyne™ IQ to develop intelligent robotic capabilities that simplify deployment, increase adaptability, and expand the range of manufacturing and logistics applications that can be automated.
As manufacturers continue to face skilled labour shortages, increasing product variability, and growing pressure to improve productivity and operational efficiency, the two companies will work together to reduce the complexity traditionally associated with robotic automation while enabling robots to be deployed faster, operate more intelligently, and deliver greater return on investment.
The collaboration will focus on several strategic initiatives, including:
- Optimisation of Palladyne™ IQ on FANUC robotic platforms
- Advanced AI-driven motion planning and adaptive robot behaviour
- Teleoperation and human-assisted learning capabilities
- Simulation and AI model training to accelerate deployment
- Joint validation of customer use cases across manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics applications
- Development of standardised deployment workflows for system integrators and end users
Palladyne™ IQ is Palladyne AI’s physical AI software platform designed to enable industrial robots to better understand, adapt to, and act within dynamic operating environments. By combining AI-driven motion planning, adaptive behaviour, teleoperation, human-assisted learning, simulation, and model training, Palladyne™ IQ is intended to help move industrial automation beyond rigid, single-purpose deployments toward more flexible robotic systems that can support a broader range of tasks and operating conditions.
The collaboration reinforces both companies’ commitment to helping manufacturers, warehouse operators, logistics providers, system integrators, and end users deploy automation in a more scalable, repeatable, and economically attractive way. By combining FANUC America’s industrial automation leadership with Palladyne AI’s physical AI software, the companies aim to help customers address persistent labour, productivity, and operational flexibility challenges while expanding the practical use cases for intelligent robotic automation.
Palladyne AI is a U.S.-based technology company developing patented embodied artificial intelligence, collaborative autonomy solutions, and autonomous systems for defence and industrial markets. Palladyne AI delivers secure, American-developed and operated platforms designed to meet the stringent requirements of U.S. government and public-sector customers, including data sovereignty, security, and compliance.
