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FANUC CORPORATION has announced a strategic collaboration with Google to expand the use of Physical AI across its industrial robot systems. The move is about pushing more AI driven automation into factory floors, kind of by blending FANUC’s robotics backbone infrastructure with Google’s AI tech and the wider robotics ecosystem support.
This partnership is really focused on Physical AI, where robots rely on sensors, AI models, and autonomous choice making so they can better interpret the surroundings and then execute tasks with minimal human intervention. Interest in this area has grown pretty fast, along with the recent leaps in large language models, and also in AI agents.
FANUC says its robots already support ROS, the open robot operating platform widely used across the robotics industry, through its open-source ROS drivers. The systems also support Python-based AI development, external robot control interfaces, and PLC integrations that allow manufacturers to connect AI systems more easily inside real production environments. Google’s Intrinsic robotics AI group is also one of the major contributors to ROS development.
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The company says these open platform capabilities are helping manufacturers deploy Physical AI systems faster across different factory operations. FANUC’s robot lineup ranges from small 3 kg payload systems to large-scale robots capable of handling 2.3-ton payloads, including its CRX collaborative robot series.
Interest in the technology has been climbing since FANUC first introduced its Physical AI system during the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo last year. According to the company, more than 1,000 robots for Physical AI-related applications have already been shipped, with demand continuing to rise.
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