Collaboration to combine FANUC America’s industrial robot portfolio with Palladyne AI’s physical AI software platform to simplify deployment, increase adaptability, and expand automation across manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics applications

Palladyne AI Corp. (NASDAQ: PDYN), a U.S.-based defense and industrial technology company delivering embodied AI-powered collaborative autonomy solutions, advanced avionics, precision-manufactured components, UAVs, and advanced aerospace engineering services, and FANUC America, a global leader in industrial automation and robotics, today announced a strategic collaboration focused on advancing the next generation of intelligent robotic automation.

The collaboration brings together FANUC America's industry-leading industrial robot portfolio with Palladyne™ IQ to develop intelligent robotic capabilities that simplify deployment, increase adaptability, and expand the range of manufacturing and logistics applications that can be automated.

As manufacturers continue to face skilled labor shortages, increasing product variability, and growing pressure to improve productivity and operational efficiency, the two companies will work together to reduce the complexity traditionally associated with robotic automation while enabling robots to be deployed faster, operate more intelligently, and deliver greater return on investment.

The collaboration will focus on several strategic initiatives, including:

• Optimization of Palladyne™ IQ on FANUC robotic platforms
• Advanced AI-driven motion planning and adaptive robot behavior
• Teleoperation and human-assisted learning capabilities
• Simulation and AI model training to accelerate deployment
• Joint validation of customer use cases across manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics applications
• Development of standardized deployment workflows for system integrators and end users

Palladyne™ IQ is Palladyne AI’s physical AI software platform designed to enable industrial robots to better understand, adapt to, and act within dynamic operating environments. By combining AI-driven motion planning, adaptive behavior, teleoperation, human-assisted learning, simulation, and model training, Palladyne™ IQ is intended to help move industrial automation beyond rigid, single-purpose deployments toward more flexible robotic systems that can support a broader range of tasks and operating conditions.

The collaboration reinforces both companies’ commitment to helping manufacturers, warehouse operators, logistics providers, system integrators, and end users deploy automation in a more scalable, repeatable, and economically attractive way. By combining FANUC America’s industrial automation leadership with Palladyne AI’s physical AI software, the companies aim to help customers address persistent labor, productivity, and operational flexibility challenges while expanding the practical use cases for intelligent robotic automation.

About Palladyne AI

Palladyne AI is a U.S.-based technology company developing patented embodied artificial intelligence, collaborative autonomy solutions, and autonomous systems for defense and industrial markets. Palladyne AI delivers secure, American-developed and operated platforms designed to meet the stringent requirements of U.S. government and public-sector customers, including data sovereignty, security, and compliance.

Palladyne AI’s embodied AI is designed to operate in complex, contested, and high-risk environments, enabling distributed tasking, human-on-the-loop decision-making, degraded-communications resilience, and multi-domain coordination. Its platform-agnostic autonomy stack combines real-time sensor fusion, adaptive AI models, and edge-native orchestration to support autonomous and collaborative systems across air, ground, maritime, and industrial domains. For more information about Palladyne AI, including GuideTech and Palladyne Aerospace and Defense, please visit www.palladyneai.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

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Palladyne AI and FANUC America today announced a strategic collaboration focused on advancing the next generation of intelligent robotic automation.