Mounting labor shortages and growing pressure to diversify are accelerating the need for automation across manufacturing. Yet automation itself is rarely straightforward. The traditional route involves juggling multiple engineering software packages, coordinating with dozens of hardware vendors, and navigating inevitable delays, rework, and communication gaps along the way. Vention’s Demo Day 2025 explored a new direction for manufacturing automation: what if we make automation so easy and fast to deploy that we effectively automate the process of industrial automation itself?
From managing projects in a unified workspace to design validations, programming with copilot, and deploying AI-powered robots, Zero-Shot Automation™ is here. Here’s a look at key announcements and highlights from Demo Day 2025.
Vention Projects Streamlines Automation Project Planning and Collaboration
Every great automation project starts with an idea. But turning that idea into reality involves hundreds of decisions, each with lasting impact on revenue, timeline, and success. Vention Projects, showcased for the first time at Demo Day 2025, transforms this traditionally fragmented experience into a single, cohesive workflow.
Built on the industry’s largest library of machine specifications, Vention Projects provides a structured, centralized workflow for defining automation scope and requirements. The new tool reduces manual documentation and communication gaps, helping teams align early and move projects from concept to approval with greater speed and accuracy. Ultimately it serves as the single source of truth with change history browsing, ensuring last-minute modifications are immediately visible before they put projects at risk.
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Generative AI meets Industrial Design in MachineBuilder
Vention’s MachineBuilder unveiled its next evolution at Demo Day 2025 with a cleaner, simpler interface that makes designing automation faster and more intuitive. Parts snap together automatically, and pricing updates in real-time, de-risking the projects from the start. Integration with Vention’s marketplace ensures that each part is compatible, eliminating some of the biggest delays in the design process.
The evolution of the AI Design Assistant makes the actual process of designing simpler than ever. In its latest form, the Design Assistant serves as an intelligent autocomplete function for machine design. Hover over intersections, and it suggests connectors like a gusset with a single click. Drag a conveyor into your 3D scene, and it automatically adds legs, motors, sensors, and assembly plates. This is true AI-powered design embedded in the platform, making machine design for automation simpler and more intuitive than ever before.
Industrial automation design cannot be isolated from floor plan realities. This is why MachineBuilder now features a new Floor Plan Import function. This allows you to import a floor plan directly into MachineBuilder, so you can position components accurately within your actual facility layout, avoiding interference with columns or traffic lanes.
A second major addition is Panel Studio, which brings control panel design directly into MachineBuilder. Instead of working in external CAD tools or manually annotating drawings, teams can now add cutouts to panels while viewing the full 3D machine in context. This ensures every opening is placed with spatial accuracy, reducing misalignment, eliminating back-and-forth between teams, and accelerating build readiness.
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MachineLogic Expands with New Developer Toolkit for Advanced Automation Programming
This year, Vention expanded MachineLogic in two distinct ways at once. With the newly launched Vention Developer Toolkit, the platform is now open to developers and advanced users. A suite of new features were also added to make MachineLogic even more powerful and easy to use.
MachineLogic Highlights from Demo Day 2025
- The new Vention Developer Toolkit introduces a developer-first path with ready-to-use libraries and tools while allowing you to program in your preferred local environment
- MachineLogic now generates automation configuration automatically in the cloud with no manual setup required
- A redesigned programming interface supports both code-free and Python workflows
- Code-free programming now allows Python snippets for deeper customization when needed
- The Python Copilot is more advanced and can reference live assets from the 3D scene
The new Vention Developer Toolkit introduces a full programming environment for advanced users, roboticists, and system integrators. It includes ready-to-use libraries for state machines, device communication, data storage, and operator HMIs, all pre-integrated with the Vention platform. The Toolkit also includes a Command Line Interface that lets developers stay in their preferred local IDE, write code, and push it directly to the Vention cloud for instant 3D simulation. Every library and tool is available as a project template, making it possible to start building immediately without custom setup.
MachineLogic also closes the gap between code-free and Python programming with software-defined configuration that automatically sets up every device based on the design created in MachineBuilder. Manufacturing engineers can now build complex workflows using a redesigned visual interface, while still having the option to insert Python code snippets when deeper customization is needed. It delivers the speed of no-code with the flexibility of full programming in one unified environment.
Code Free Interface
Python Interface
For Python developers, the cloud-based IDE features the Vention AI Copilot, trained on the MachineLogic SDK with understanding of 3D designs and scene assets. Reference any waypoint or frame from the 3D scene, and Copilot generates the precise Python code. It’s like having a robotics engineer at your side.
Simulation has always been a core feature of MachineLogic. With simulation, engineers can validate their designs in a true physics based environment. And now, with Simulation Checker, you can simulate your design before a single line of code is written.
The Simulation Checker validates designs in a true physics-based environment where gravity, collisions, and motion behave exactly like the real world. This lets robot programmers test and refine workflows to guarantee they work perfectly upon deployment. That’s the essence of zero-shot automation: no trial and error, just getting it right the first time.
Physical AI Comes to the Factory Floor
One of the standout moments at Demo Day 2025 was the introduction of The AI Operator, a breakthrough that brings true physical AI to the factory
floor. Automating unstructured tasks, such as moving parts from conveyors, trays, or bins has long required perception, dexterity, and fluid motion, capabilities once limited to humans. These repetitive yet essential tasks have been notoriously difficult and costly to automate. The AI Operator makes automating unstructured tasks as simple as uploading a CAD file. The system automatically adapts to production-ready performance, redefining what’s possible in intelligent automation.
Powered by MachineMotion AI, Vention’s third-generation automation controller, The AI Operator runs advanced AI pipelines directly on the factory floor using NVIDIA Jetson GPUs. It leverages state-of-the-art foundation models for perception, depth estimation, grasp planning, and context-aware, collision-free motion. The system thrives in high-mix, unpredictable environments, performing reliably across varying lighting conditions and handling multiple product types, colors, shapes, and materials without complex programming.
Amit Goel, Head of AI and Robotics at NVIDIA, explains why the AI Operator represents a pivotal shift for industrial automation.
“With the advancements in AI manufacturers can now adjust to the paradigm of agile manufacturing. It’s now possible with Vention’s AI Operator to deploy robotics for applications that require constant updates. It enables you to deploy robotics for a large variety of environments.”
Turnkey Automation Deployed in Just a Few Clicks
True to the ‘Zero-Shot’ theme, Demo Day 2025 proved that industrial automation doesn’t need to start from scratch. Drawing on experience from over 20,000 global deployments, Vention showcased four pre-engineered solutions designed to accelerate deployment and reduce time-to-value.
Click & Customize Welding offers six pre-configured designs, from robot pedestals to integrated welding carts and multi-table setups. Click & Customize Machine Tending provides drawer or part presenter bases that arrive pre-wired and pre-assembled. What used to take weeks of engineering is now ready in minutes.
Rapid Series Sanding, developed in partnership with 3M, is a complete production-ready solution that can be deployed in under one day. The intuitive touchscreen lets any operator create new recipes in minutes, and the system automatically measures panel dimensions and starts sanding to achieve a perfect finish, every time.
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Finally, Vention also introduced the next-generation Rapid Series Palletizer at Demo day 2025, redesigned for faster deployment and safer operation. Featuring a mobile-ready base, integrated pallet locators, area-scanner protection, and extended pallet height capabilities, the Rapid Series is the most versatile turnkey cobot palletizer available today.
Operational Intelligence That Solves Real Problems
As automation moves from planning to deployment, success hinges on real-time problem solving. At Demo Day 2025, Vention unveiled RemoteView and analytics tools to make automation tech support more responsive. Issues that once took hours or days to resolve now take minutes.
Introducing RemoteView
RemoteView is Vention’s new real-time visibility layer for production environments, giving operators immediate clarity into what happens the moment a fault occurs. RemoteView Recording captures the exact instant production stops, whether it is an e-stop event or a jam on the conveyor. It allows operators to replay it frame by frame with synchronized status indicators. Instead of combing through logs or waiting on escalation, teams can diagnose and act within seconds, keeping production on track.
Vention also introduced two crucial tools in Demo Day 2025 to improve real-time performance analytics and support.
MachineAnalytics transforms raw production data into actionable intelligence. Real-time visibility into cycle times, throughput, and downtime patterns means problems surface before they cascade.
RemoteSupport eliminates the wait. Factory operators connect directly with Vention engineers from their pendant, troubleshooting live issues on the spot. No tickets, no delays, no lost production time.
A Step Towards Manufacturing Certainty
Demo Day 2025 underlined the new ground reality in industrial automation: the era of starting projects from scratch is over. With Zero-Shot Automation™, manufacturers approach automation with certainty, confident that designs will work as intended, programs will execute flawlessly, and robots will adapt to real-world conditions.
By uniting AI-powered design tools, intelligent programming environments, physics-based simulation, and physical AI capabilities, Vention is transforming automation from a complex, risky undertaking into an accessible, predictable process.
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