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Formic Core: The Operating System for Robot Labor

Formic Core is the embedded operating system (OS) that powers robot vision, sensing, motion, and real-time coordination across every robot we deploy in your facility. Using AI-generated programs and real-time path optimization, Core makes robots smarter, faster, and more resilient from day one.

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Formic Core: Intelligence at Every Move

Core unifies how robots see, think, and move. Formic robots don’t just repeat tasks; they can adapt in real time.

01

Sense

  • Box detection: Vision models for anomaly detection
  • Damage detection: Detects crushed boxes, label/tape failures, and misalignment
  • SKU recognition: Live SKU classification
  • Environmental awareness: Accounts for unexpected obstacles and human presence


02

Decide

  • Path planning: Programs generated via pre‑deployed simulation
  • Object classification: Vision-based anomaly detection and error handling
  • Error detection: Learns from anomalies
  • Task prioritization: Quick changeovers between SKUs


03

Act

  • Motion control: Robot-agnostic inverse kinematics control; real-time commands
  • Gripper force: Takes EOAT limitations into account
  • Speed optimization: Real-time path reoptimization reduces cycle time 30-50%
  • Safe human interaction: Human-guided autonomy, 1:50 robot:human ratio


04

Recover

  • Autonomous anomaly handling: Automatically detects unexpected inputs, mis-picks, dropped cases, misaligned totes, and triggers the right recovery behavior.
  • Real-time self-correction: Repositions, retries, or re-routes without pausing the full cell, keeping cycle time stable even during disruptions.
  • Stateful recovery logic: Maintains context of the task so the robot can resume precisely where it left off instead of restarting the job.
  • Minimal human intervention: Designed for mission-critical uptime with automated resets and error clearing, reducing operator involvement to near zero.


Formic Core Sets the New Standard for AI-Powered Robot OS

Formic Core is built to evolve. Agnostic, adaptive, labor-saving.

Hardware-Agnostic

Works across robot systems (Fanuc, ABB, Kuka, Doosan) with unified control application program interfaces (APIs).

AI Learning

Vision, motion, and control continuously improve with 450,000+ hours of robot training data.

Cross-Robot Coordination

Enables handoffs and fleet-level optimization via Colony 2.0.

Self-Tuning

Real-time path reoptimization, autonomous anomaly recovery, and AI-generated program updates reduce downtime by ~70%.

Formic Core on Your Factory Floor — The Real Impact

  • Automatically detects boxes, misalignment, and product damage
  • Adapts to SKU changes without downtime
  • Recovers from minor errors without human intervention
  • Improves pick accuracy and cycle time over weeks, not months

The longer Core runs, the better your robots perform on your production line.

Robot Program Generation

7 hrs → 5 mins



Fault recovery autonomy

>85% of events



Downtime reduction

~70%



Continuous improvement

450,000+ hours and growing of robot learning data



The Robot OS Behind the Future of End-of-Line Production

Formic Core unifies sensing, motion, and intelligent adaptation across all deployed Formic robots. With AI-generated programs, real-time path optimization, and vision-guided recovery, Core turns individual machines into a continuously improving workforce. Combined with Cortex and FPI, it forms the operating system for automation, future-proofing factories.

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