Prehensio.ai provides an adaptive automation software layer that enables industrial robots to handle high-mix manufacturing with variation in part geometry, positioning, and process conditions. The system works with proven third-party robots and components, deploying without rigid setups or predefined paths. It integrates with standard PLCs and production infrastructure, allowing manufacturers to automate complex workflows without line redesign.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Traditional industrial automation struggles with high-mix manufacturing environments where part geometry, positioning, and process conditions vary continuously. Rigid, pre-programmed robotic systems fail when real-world variability appears on the factory floor, requiring extensive reprogramming and setup for each new task or product variant. This limits automation adoption in operations that need flexibility and frequent changeovers.
Solution
Prehensio provides a unified hardware and software platform that makes high-mix automation work by absorbing process complexity across applications. The proprietary software layer handles adaptation, validation, and deployment, enabling robots to adjust at runtime to variation in parts, positioning, and conditions without predefined paths. Built on proven third-party industrial robots, hands, and components, the system is integration-ready and works with standard PLCs and production infrastructure. Prehensio's adaptive execution ensures reliable operation across changing inputs, reducing deployment effort and enabling program-free deployment for complex workflows.
Target Audience
Primary customers are manufacturers operating high-mix production environments, particularly those needing machine tending and automated line feeding solutions. The system targets industrial operations that face frequent changeovers, multiple product variants, and tolerance variations that traditional automation cannot handle.
Features
- Runtime adaptation to variation in part geometry, positioning, and process conditions without rigid setups or predefined paths
- Proprietary software layer that handles adaptation, validation, and deployment, absorbing process complexity across applications
- Built on proven third-party robots, hands, and components qualified for production environments
- Integration-ready design compatible with standard robots, PLCs, and existing production infrastructure without line redesign
- Program-free deployment that reduces the need for extensive programming or configuration during setup
- Focus on machine tending and automated line feeding for high-mix manufacturing operations