Notes from the Floor

FANUC's AI Welding Agent reads the drawing and writes the weld — shipping December, and here is what the release does not say

FANUC and Google announced the AI Welding Agent on 11 September: a CRX cobot photographs an engineering drawing with its teach pendant and generates the weld parameters and robot program. Ships end-December. No price, no cycle time, no joint list — the gaps matter as much as the product.