Vention presented updates to its industrial automation platform at Demo Day 2025, emphasizing the integration of artificial intelligence across design, simulation, programming and deployment workflows. A central announcement was Zero Shot Automation, which combines hardware and software development in a single platform to reduce the trial-and-error cycle in automation projects. The idea is to let users design machines, run physics-based simulations and deploy systems with minimal iterative physical testing.
The company also introduced Vention Projects, a collaborative workspace for defining project scope and requirements, storing documents and components, and placing 3D visualizations into imported facility floor plans. MachineBuilder, Vention’s CAD-like design environment, received interface and workflow improvements and now incorporates artificial intelligence-assisted design features that suggest parts, automate component connections and keep bills of materials and pricing updated in real time. Programming features include MachineLogic, which supports visual drag-and-drop programming with the option to insert Python code, and an Artificial Intelligence Co-Pilot that generates code snippets from design elements. Simulation Checker provides a physics-accurate virtual test environment for validating motion, collisions and timing before hardware deployment.
The presentation highlighted customer implementations across industries, from a space solar power company using robotics to scale production to a plumbing products manufacturer automating packaging and a woodworking company that deployed a sanding robot. Vention also announced turnkey Click-and-Customize bases for machine tending and welding, plus the Rapid Series Palletizer with added safety and remote monitoring features including video recording for troubleshooting. A significant technical development is the Artificial Intelligence Operator, a robotics controller running models on NVIDIA GPUs to enable perception, motion planning and collision avoidance on the factory floor. NVIDIA representatives discussed collaboration on accelerated computing and synthetic data simulation to support adaptable, perception-based robotic automation without complex programming.
