Vention and NVIDIA collaborate to enhance industrial automation for SMEs

MONTREAL — Vention has collaborated with NVIDIA to bring industrial automation technology to small and medium manufacturers using NVIDIA AI and accelerated computing to advance cloud robotics.

“The Vention ecosystem with NVIDIA’s robotics technology and AI expertise will help bring pivotal innovation to the manufacturing renaissance and overall industry. Now, even the most complex use cases can become achievable for small and medium manufacturers,” Etienne Lacroix, Vention’s founder and chief executive officer said.

Vention’s cloud-based MAP integrates AI, utilizing a proprietary dataset of several hundred thousand robot cell designs created since the company’s founding. Vention aims to use this asset to streamline the user experience on the cloud and the edge. The collaboration with NVIDIA focuses on using AI to create accurate digital twins more quickly and efficiently, allowing manufacturers to test their projects before investing. Development areas include generative designs for robot cells, co-pilot programming, physics-based simulation, and autonomous robots.

“Vention’s cloud-based robotics platform, powered by NVIDIA AI, will empower industrial equipment manufacturing companies everywhere to seamlessly design, deploy, and operate robot cells, helping drive the industry forward,” Deepu Talla, NVIDIA’s vice president of robotics and edge computing said.

Combined with Vention’s hardware and plug-and-play motion control technology, the collaboration with NVIDIA will bring AI to the forefront of manufacturing aiming to widen access to industrial automation technology for small and medium manufacturers. Several new Vention products resulting from this collaboration will be announced in Q3 of 2024.