Automate 2026: RoboDK demonstrates new CAM software that saves robotic machining deployment time

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Global offline programming and simulation software for robots provider RoboDK showcased its newly launched RoboDK CAM software at Automate 2026 in Chicago.

The company said that the platform is designed to help people deploy robots with ease, and can cut robotic machining deployment time by up to 40%. The company’s Automate booth demonstrated how robotic machining programs can be generated directly from CAD files.

RoboDK at Automate 2026

RoboDK said that its Automate demos showed how easily users can generate toolpaths and collision-free robot motion straight from CAD files and execute them in a production-ready environment, without having to manually build and tune robot code line by line.

“When generating robotic machining programs requires robot-specific expertise, it becomes a costly bottleneck,” said Albert Nubiola, CEO, RoboDK. “At Automate, RoboDK will showcase a different approach to robot programming where CAD becomes the starting point, programs are automatically generated, and deployment becomes much faster and more repeatable. For manufacturers and integrators, this means rapid automation integration and deployments.”

The company said that robotic machining adoption has been held back by the complexity of traditional methods of robot programming. RoboDK said that the RoboDK CAM platform addresses this problem by providing a way for manufacturers - including those without robot programming expertise - and integrators to move quickly and easily from design to production-ready automation cells.

RoboDK provided the following booth details, which included a compact industrial setup featuring a Mecademic robot that demonstrated the impact on real-world application workflows:

• CAD-to-robot machining: Toolpaths generated directly from a CAD model and executed as a robotic machining process
• Smart motion with collision avoidance: A pick-and-place task using automatic, collision-free motion planning in a constrained environment

The company said that RoboDK CAM enables robotic machining applications to be deployed faster, with less manual intervention, reduced effort and greater consistency.

The showcase comes fresh on the release of RoboDK Version 6.0, which the company said introduces major performance and simulation improvements alongside native CAM support. RoboDK said that the update significantly accelerates core operations such as collision checking and geometry processing (by up to 10x to 100x times in some cases) while improving handling of large point clouds and complex 3D models.

RoboDK Version 6.0 also expands motion planning capabilities and simulation flexibility, including enhancements to its collision-free motion planner and new event-based simulation features for modelling more complex automation scenarios.

In February 2026, RoboDK said that its software achieved support for more than 1,400 robot models across more than 80 robot brands. The company said that this represents a major milestone, as its software is designed to be a hardware-agnostic tool supported by the world’s largest digital library of robot arms and components for use in OLP and simulation.