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Formic Cortex: The AI-Powered Platform Driving Every Robot Deployment and Upgrade

Formic Cortex is a unified workflow engine that digitizes every stage of deployment, from site scanning and system design to installation, monitoring, and autonomous recovery. By ingesting facility scans, SKU data, and live production footage, Cortex leverages AI to orchestrate robot installation and optimization on your factory floor with unprecedented speed, accuracy, and performance.

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Formic Cortex: The Fastest Way to De-Risk and Drive Continuous Improvement on Your Production Line

Up to 30-50% of automation projects fall short. Cortex minimizes that risk with AI-driven deployment, monitoring, and autonomous recovery powered by facility scans, SKU data, and live production footage.

1

Plan

3D Site Scan

A quick walk-around produces full-facility renderings for simulations and workflow verification.

AI Document Scan

Converts customer spreadsheets, PDFs, and other SKU documents into structured data for system scoping.

Video Capture & Analysis

Cameras collect days of production footage to capture processes, worker movement, and abnormal situations.

Component Database

Access to vetted parts, pricing, and compatibility to inform system design automatically.

2

Deploy

Automated Solution Configuration

AI-powered analysis of all planning needs to identify the appropriate system for production lines.

System-Specific BOM Generation

Automatically generates mechanical and electrical BOMs after solution verification.

Gripper/EOAT Automation

Standardizes end-of-arm tooling selection and designs custom solutions when needed.

3

Optimize

AI-Powered Evaluation

Future-ready object identification and quantification for ongoing optimization.

Data-Driven Decision Loops

Leverages live footage, historical performance, and predictive analytics to adjust workflows.

Continuous Improvement

The system learns from, or accounts for, rare, unusual, or exceptional scenarios, ensuring reliable deployments, reducing downtime, and improving throughput.

Cortex unlocks rapid robot deployment, ensuring the right system on your floor and driving higher productivity in weeks rather than months.

Formic Cortex at Work: Accelerate Deployment, Maximize Performance

Built to scale and evolve your manufacturing facility.

Simulation‑Driven Deployment

By integrating a modern iterative simulation environment, Cortex ensures new workflows are pre-validated: reducing deployment risk, shortening iteration cycles, and enabling hardware-agnostic programming.

AI-Driven Scheduling

Optimizes production throughput based on real-time performance and constraints.

Predictive Maintenance

Real-time analysis from thousands of sensors and cameras to anticipate faults before they happen, minimizing downtime.

Data-First

Leverages fleet-scale learning from 450,000+ production hours.

Plug & Play

Works with any robot system seamlessly.

The Real-World Impact of Bringing Cortex to Your Line

  • Scope your system in minutes

  • Deploy your system in weeks

  • Get automation right the first time & continue to optimize

System scoping time

~80% faster than traditional methods



Fleet uptime

+98%



Number of components analyzed

500,000+



Automation Orchestration Made Simple, Scalable, and Predictable

Formic Cortex transforms production on your floor. By orchestrating planning, deployment, and real-time optimization, Cortex reduces downtime, accelerates production, and continuously improves your factory operations. Combined with Core and FPI, Cortex is the intelligence layer powering the future of industrial automation.

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