Physical AI,in every robot.
Core is the AI that makes a Formic robot smart enough to handle real production variability. Vision-guided perception, learned manipulation policies, and adaptive control, running deterministically on industrial PLC hardware your maintenance team already trusts.
AI that thinks like a researcher, runs like a PLC.
Vision-guided perception
Real-time scene understanding on every cycle. The robot sees what's actually in front of it (products, packaging variability, pallet conditions) and adapts instead of stopping.
Learned manipulation policies
Behaviors trained on millions of real production cycles, not lab demos. New SKU, new pack pattern, new edge case: the robot generalizes instead of needing a re-program.
Adaptive, deterministic control
AI decisions, executed in hard-real-time PLC motion. Smart enough to handle variability, safe enough to ship under SLA. The honest handoff between AI policy and physical motion.
Multi-vendor robot OS
KUKA, ABB, FANUC, and Doosan robots unified under one AI control layer. Pick the arm that fits the application. Keep the same intelligence.
Safety-rated by default
Stops, light curtains, and area scanners are standard. The AI never gets to override safety. Physical AI is only useful if it's safe AI.
Backward compatibility
Maintained across every fleet release. Five-year-old Formic systems run the same AI core as the systems we're shipping today. Your robots get smarter, never obsolete.
Physical AI,across the fleet.
Cortex is what makes the Formic fleet smarter than any single robot. AI-powered site evaluation before deployment. Fleet-wide learning, telemetry, and OTA upgrades after. Every robot teaches every other robot.
What one line learns at 2 AM, every line knows by morning.
AI-powered scoping
Cortex evaluates your line before a single robot ships. Vision-based product analysis, simulated robot selection, and ROI modeling. All before the contract is signed.
Fleet-wide learning
Every cycle on every robot feeds the model. Anomalies, recoveries, edge cases: all surfaced, all trained against. Your first system benefits from everything the hundredth one learns.
Live fleet visibility
Real-time OEE, throughput, and cycle-time analytics across every cell, line, and facility. Accessible to your team, not gated behind a vendor portal.
AI-assisted remote diagnostics
When something goes wrong, Cortex already knows. Encrypted root-cause tooling, AI-flagged anomaly detection. Most issues resolved without a site visit, and your maintenance team sees what we see.
Continuous OTA releases
New capability, new SKUs, new edge cases: delivered as backward-compatible OTA updates. Your fleet gets sharper every week without a single line going down.
Integrations
Read/write APIs for MES, ERP, SCADA. Production data flows where your team already runs it. No re-tooling required.