Voler Systems – an Innovobot Company, hosted a webinar exploring how AI and automation are reshaping industrial environments and what this means for engineering teams, manufacturers, and innovators.
Intervenants :
Pedro Gregorio, Head of the Robotics Lab, Innovobot Labs
- Raymond Luc, CEO, Numetrix Technologies
From electronics manufacturing to food production and waste sorting, how AI perception is transforming industrial automation across North America.
Their core message: automation doesn’t fail because it doesn’t work. It fails because organizations can’t deploy it.
A few points that stood out:
- Execution is the gap, not technology. AI and robotics capabilities are advancing fast: but adoption remains uneven. Success comes down to clear objectives, defined scope, and cross-functional alignment.
- Labor pressure is forcing the conversation. An aging workforce and growing skills gap are pushing manufacturers to act: yet most are SMEs in brownfield environments with fragmented systems. Alignment across the organization is rare.
- Data and scalability are the real obstacles. Most organizations aren’t data-ready, and a significant portion of AI project effort goes to data preparation alone. Pilots are achievable: scaling is where most initiatives stall, often due to unclear ownership and limited internal capability to sustain solutions.
The question they left us with: If the technology works, what is preventing your organization from using it?