Vention announces AI, developer platform expansions at annual Demo Day

Montreal-based full-stack software and hardware automation provider Vention held its 6^th annual Demo Day event and announced what it calls the next evolution of intelligent manufacturing, driving its Zero-Shot Automation vision.

At the virtual event, Vention announced new capabilities that allow companies to automate without the need for traditional hardware integration or complex programming. The innovations include new tools that further expand the platform to a global community of developers and roboticists, as well as advanced simulation and AI features designed to help manufacturers move from design to deployed automation faster than ever before. 

Vention Demo Day highlights the company’s journey

Since its first Demo Day in 2020, Vention said has transformed its fast machine-design platform into a software-defined automation environment that unifies hardware, software and AI in one seamless experience. Today, more than 25,000 machines in 4,000 factories rely on the Vention platform for custom projects and turnkey manufacturing applications such as palletizing, welding and machine tending, demonstrating proven performance, faster payback and a dramatically shorter path from idea to production.  

“Our mission has always been to make automation accessible to everyone,” said Etienne Lacroix, founder and CEO of Vention. “With Zero-Shot Automation, we’re building the stack of the future for industrial automation, where hardware and software are fully unified and AI runs seamlessly from the cloud to the edge. It’s a major milestone toward simpler, smarter, and more powerful automation.”

Vention rolls out AI Operator, highlights top capabilities of platform

Vention said a highlight of this year’s Demo Day was the global rollout of AI Operator, the company’s next-generation automation offering that brings advanced AI models directly to the factory floor for unstructured applications such as bin picking. First previewed earlier in 2025 at NVIDIA GTC San Jose, AI Operator is now available on the Vention platform, with factory-floor deployments expanding globally through early 2026. 

Powered by Vention’s MachineMotion AI controller, first introduced at Demo Day 2024, AI Operator is built on NVIDIA AI infrastructure and NVIDIA Isaac libraries and AI models to deliver the compute power required for advanced industrial AI applications. By enabling perception, grasping and collision-free motion directly at the edge, Vention said it accelerates manufacturers’ path toward Zero-Shot Automation, making automation simpler, faster and more intelligent.

At Demo Day 2025, Vention also featured key advancements designed to make its platform more intuitive and available for manufacturers, developers, and roboticists alike:

• New Developer Toolkit opens platform to developers/roboticists in new ways
  • Vention’s new Developer Toolkit introduces a Command Line Interface (CLI), bundled project templates and ready-to-use libraries for state machines, device communication, data storage and operator HMIs. Developers and roboticists can now build locally or in the cloud using their preferred workflow, expanding how they create on the Vention platform.
• Simulation Checker offers easier access to simulation tools before code is ever written
  • A new simulation environment delivers real-world accuracy before a single line of code is ever written. Gravity, collisions and motion now behave exactly as they would on the factory floor, giving manufacturers confidence in their automation designs from day one.
• RemoteView video recording ensures safe, smart operations
  • To strengthen Vention’s ability to help operators monitor and optimize machines, the company’s RemoteView recording logs a full operational history, including status updates and alerts. By assisting teams in tracing issues such as operator errors or equipment collisions, RemoteView accelerates troubleshooting and prevents costly downtime.
• Vention Projects streamlines automation planning and collaboration
  • The company said that Vention Projects, which is built on the industry’s largest library of machine specifications, 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 accuracy.

NVIDIA shares AI’s role in agile manufacturing

Amit Goel, head of robotics & edge computing at NVIDIA, joined Demo Day to discuss the accelerating role of AI in agile manufacturing and the advancements driving Vention’s AI Operator.

“With Vention’s AI Operator, it’s now possible to deploy robotics for applications that require continuous updates and greater flexibility,” Goel said. “All of these capabilities are now accessible to technicians on the line.”