Flexxbotics to Present at ARM Institute’s “Smarter Manufacturing, Faster Production” Conference

Flexxbotics will showcase how software-defined automation enables companies to accelerate the adoption of robotic production with high compliance and security to scale manufacturing autonomy utilizing autonomous process control in heterogeneous factory environments across critical industries.

Advancing Robotic Production in Critical Industries

The ARM Institute focuses on helping manufacturers achieve success with factory automation through benchmarking, reference architectures, and production use cases. At the event, Flexxbotics will share how software-defined automation enables many-to-many interoperable orchestration of advanced robotics, factory machines, PLCs, vision systems, inspection equipment, and other plant assets for lights out manufacturing. Additionally, Flexxbotics will explain how high-frequency multimodal data capture, contextualization, and enrichment is used for Industrial AI and Physical AI model training and inference.

These capabilities directly address the challenges highlighted by the ARM Institute, including workforce readiness, system integration complexity, and the need for scalable automation solutions that can be deployed across U.S. manufacturers of all sizes.

“Manufacturers are no longer limited by whether robots can perform a task, they’re limited by how quickly and reliably those robots can be incorporated into production processes,” said Tyler Bouchard, CEO and Co-Founder of Flexxbotics. “At the ARM Institute, we’re showing how software-defined automation can eliminate integration barriers, enabling industrial robots and factory automation to scale faster than ever to help America reindustrialize.”

Supporting the ARM Institute Mission for U.S. Manufacturing

The ARM Institute is a national Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) organization funded by the Office of the Secretary of Defense and is part of the Manufacturing USA® network that brings together over 450 organizations across industry, government, and academia to advance robotics and AI adoption in U.S. manufacturing. Its Robotics Manufacturing Hub provides manufacturers with hands-on access to advanced technologies, helping them evaluate and implement automation solutions that improve competitiveness and resilience.

Flexxbotics’ participation aligns with the ARM Institute mission by delivering best practice insights along with production-ready software that includes open-source extensibility to enable advanced deployments of industrial robotics and automation for rapid factory deployment.

Download the Flexxbotics SDA runtime, Studio, and API (no time limits or feature restrictions) at https://flexxbotics.com/download/

Visit the Flexxbotics open-source GitHub repository for connector drivers to over 1000 makes & models of factory machines and automation at https://github.com/flexxbotics/transformers

Event Details

Event: Smarter Manufacturing, Faster Production
Date: February 25, 2026
Location: ARM Institute, Pittsburgh PA

About ARM Institute

The ARM (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing) Institute is a Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) funded by the Office of the Secretary of Defense under Agreement Number W911NF-17-3-0004 and is part of the Manufacturing USA® network. The ARM Institute leverages a unique and robust consortium of 470+ members and partners across industry, academia, and government to make robotics, autonomy, and artificial intelligence more accessible to U.S. manufacturers large and small, train and empower the manufacturing workforce, strengthen our economy and global competitiveness, and elevate national security and resilience. Based in Pittsburgh, PA since 2017, the ARM Institute is leading the way to a future where people & robots work together to respond to our nation’s greatest challenges and to produce the world’s most desired products. For more information, visit www.arminstitute.org and follow the ARM Institute on LinkedIn and X.

About Flexxbotics

Flexxbotics autonomous manufacturing platform enables smart factory autonomy at scale. Software-defined automation provides interoperable communication and orchestration across plant equipment, robotics, and enterprise IT systems. More powerful, flexible and open, Flexxbotics digitalizes next-generation production environments for continuous operations. Visit www.flexxbotics.com to learn more and follow us on LinkedIn.