Palladyne AI and FANUC America Partner to Advance Intelligent Robotic Automation

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Palladyne AI Corp. (NASDAQ: PDYN), a U.S.-based defense 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 labor 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:

• Optimization of Palladyne™ IQ on FANUC robotic platforms
• Advanced AI-driven motion planning and adaptive robot behavior
• 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 standardized 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 behavior, 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 labor, productivity, and operational flexibility challenges while expanding the practical use cases for intelligent robotic automation.