Shot from the arm Formic · Home base
236329
Come talk through your floor
Where we do the actual math with you. Bring the part, the cycle time, and the shift you can’t staff, and we’ll tell you straight whether it fits.
IMTS 2026 · McCormick Place, Chicago
If you’re at IMTS this year, don’t skip the machine tending demo.
You know the labor situation isn’t getting easier. You know your best people shouldn’t be babysitting machines. But walking into a capital project on your own is a lot.
- Booth 236329 is home base
- Live demo at the KUKA booth 236807, North Building. A KUKA robot tending an EMAG grinding machine
- September 14 through 19, all week
Free exhibit hall pass on us · No capex, flat rate
Free show pass
Your ticket, on us
We cover the exhibit hall pass. Tell us who you are and we’ll send your registration code over, and set a time to meet at booth 236329 if you want one.
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Someone from our team will email you a registration code that covers your exhibit hall pass, along with a time to meet if you asked for one. Here’s where to point yourself in the meantime.
- Home baseBooth 236329
- Live demoKUKA booth 236807, North Building
- WhenSeptember 14 through 19, McCormick Place
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02 / Where to find us
Two booths. Stop by whichever one’s closer.
Come find us. One is ours, one is a live cell running inside KUKA’s. Just come look and ask your questions. Neither one takes long.
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KUKA + EMAG Running live KUKA booth · North Building
236807
Watch it actually run
A KUKA robot tending an EMAG grinding machine, cycle after cycle. Not a rendering, not a slide. The same setup you’d actually run on your line.
This is a real cell. Not a rendering.
Every clip on this page is footage from a running Formic machine tending cell
03 / The floor test
Everyone’s talking about automation. Not everyone’s running it.
A trade show is full of promises. Very few of them are moving. The test we’d apply if we were walking the aisles instead of standing in them: is there a part in the chuck right now, and did a robot put it there? At the KUKA booth, yes on both.
04 / Spindle time
Same machine. Same cycle time. More hours of it running.
A machine only earns while the spindle is turning, and most of them stop for reasons that have nothing to do with the machine: breaks, lunch, shift change, and every stretch where the person loading it is across the aisle running something else. A robot doesn’t take those. You are not buying a faster cycle, you are buying back the hours around it.
The spindle never waits on a person 01
Hours you already pay for
The cell runs straight through breaks, lunch, and shift change. Nobody has to be standing at the door for the machine to keep cutting.
02
Your machinist on skilled work
Loading a chuck is not why you hired them. No fixture changes between part numbers means the robot absorbs the repetition without creating new setup work, and your people run more machines and catch problems earlier.
03
A shift you could never staff
Lights-out through the back half of the night, or a third shift you were never going to fill. The parts are in the tray when the floor comes back in.
05 / Parts in, parts out
Nobody is standing at the door waiting to hand it the next one.
The tray gets staged. The cell runs it down. Somebody swaps the tray when it’s empty and goes back to work that needs a person.
One tray, one run, no babysitting 06 / How it works
No capex. Flat rate. You get the output.
Robots-as-a-Service, which mostly means the part everyone dreads is not yours. We own the cell and maintain it. You run parts.
No capex
Nothing on the balance sheet
You are not buying a robot. There is no capital request to build, no committee to walk it through, no depreciation schedule to defend.
Flat rate
One number, every month
A flat monthly rate you can put next to a labor line and compare directly. It does not move when the cell needs service.
We own it
We maintain it, you run parts
Installation, programming, spares, uptime, all ours. You get the output. If it is down, that is our problem to solve, not your maintenance team’s.
07 / If you’ve been putting it off
This is your sign. Just come look.
If you’ve been putting the automation conversation off, that’s fair. It usually starts with a capital project, a committee, and a number somebody has to go defend. This doesn’t.
We’ll show you exactly how the Robots-as-a-Service model works: what it costs, what it doesn’t cost you upfront, and whether it fits your floor. If it doesn’t, we’ll tell you that too.
One tray swap, then back to work 
Six days. Two booths.
September 14 through 19 · McCormick Place · Booths 236329 and 236807
08 / The details
Everything you need to show up.
No ticket yet is not a reason to skip it. We’ll cover the exhibit hall pass.
When
September 14 to 19
All week. We’re at both booths every day of the show.
Where
McCormick Place, Chicago
Booth 236329, plus the live demo at KUKA booth 236807 in the North Building.
Tickets
Free exhibit hall pass
We cover it. Ask for a pass and we’ll email you a registration code.
Request your pass09 / Not going to the show
Not going to IMTS? We’ll bring the demo to you.
Reach out and we’ll set up a demo near you. Same conversation, same straight answer about whether it fits your floor, without the trip to Chicago.
Booth 236329.
Or the KUKA booth.
Booth 236329, or KUKA booth 236807 in the North Building. All week, September 14 through 19. Don’t have a ticket yet? We’ll cover it.