Vention brings FANUC industrial robots to its automation platform

Collision-free path planning simplifies industrial robot programming
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Sept. 22, 2026
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Key Highlights

  • Vention’s automation platform now supports FANUC industrial robots, ranging from smaller LR Mate and LR-10 models to larger M-710 series robots.
  • Collision-free path planning allows programmers to specify a robot’s destination while the software generates a path that avoids obstacles in the modeled environment.
  • Vention’s MachineMotion industrial PC-based controller can control robots and power as many as 20 daisy-chained motors within an automation system.

Vention is expanding its automation platform to support FANUC industrial robots, bringing larger and more traditional robotic applications into an environment previously focused largely on collaborative robots. In this demonstration from the 2026 Automate Show in Chicago, Brendan Sterne, chief product officer at Vention, explains how the company is adding FANUC robots ranging from the smaller LR Mate and LR-10 models to the larger M-710 series (Figure 1). The Vention platform allows users to design, program and simulate an automation system before ordering the components for customer assembly or having Vention assemble the system.

Figure 1: Brendan Sterne, chief product officer, Vention.

Figure 1: Brendan Sterne, chief product officer, Vention.

Sterne also highlights Vention’s new collision-free path-planning capabilities, which are designed to simplify robot programming. Traditionally, programmers may need to specify multiple waypoints to define how a robot moves around machinery, tooling and other obstacles on its way to a destination. With Vention’s scene-aware approach, the programmer can instead specify the desired endpoint, and the software generates a path that avoids objects represented within the scene.

Underlying these capabilities is Vention’s MachineMotion controller, an industrial PC-based controller that can control robots, as well as other motion components within the machine. Sterne notes that a single controller can power as many as 20 daisy-chained motors, allowing it to coordinate multiple elements of an automation system. By combining FANUC industrial robot support, collision-free path planning and multi-axis motion control, Vention is aiming to extend the ease of programming associated with its platform to a wider range of industrial robotic applications.

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Mike Bacidore is chief editor of Control Design and has been an integral part of the Endeavor Business Media editorial team since 2007. Previously, he was editorial director at Hughes Communications and a portfolio manager of the human resources and labor law areas at Wolters Kluwer. Bacidore holds a BA from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. He is an award-winning columnist, earning multiple regional and national awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors. He may be reached at [email protected] 

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