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CRX collaborative robot series

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About CRX collaborative robot series

FANUC's CRX series is a family of collaborative robot arms for handling, assembly, welding, dispensing, inspection, machine tending and other configurable factory work. The current lineup spans compact and higher-payload models, with published payload choices from 3 to 40 kilograms and model-specific reaches.

CRX robots combine hand guidance, drag-and-drop programming and sensitive contact detection with FANUC's industrial control ecosystem. End effectors, vision and application tooling determine the exact deployed workflow, so family-level capability claims remain configuration-aware. FANUC states that the series is designed for eight years of maintenance-free operation.

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

  • Workflows: Collaborative arm automation for handling, assembly, dispensing, inspection, machine tending, palletizing and paint/coating use cases where factories want…
  • Operating environments: Manufacturing cells, assembly lines, machine-tending stations, packaging lines, palletizing areas, dispensing, inspection and industrial paint workflows.
  • Target markets: Manufacturers, systems integrators, automation teams, job shops and factory operators evaluating cobots from an established industrial robot OEM.
  • Deployment model: Sold as a commercial FANUC collaborative robot family through FANUC and integrator channels, with multiple payload/reach variants and supporting CRX…
  • Trajectory tracking

    Research demonstration - 2025-06-17 - Experiments cover step response, trajectory tracking, collision avoidance, and dynamic velocity scaling.

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  • Pick and place

    Claimed - FANUC CRX collaborative robots pick and place objects.

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  • Workspace collision avoidance

    Research demonstration - 2025-06-17 - Experiments cover step response, trajectory tracking, collision avoidance, and dynamic velocity scaling.

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  • Palletizing

    Claimed - FANUC CRX collaborative robots perform palletizing workflows.

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  • Robotic welding

    Claimed - FANUC CRX collaborative robots perform robotic welding.

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  • Robotic assembly

    Claimed - FANUC CRX collaborative robots perform assembly workflows.

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Research

  • ROS2 FANUC interface paper evaluates open hardware integration for CRX cobots

    2025-06-17 - Research Publication - This paper introduces the ROS2 control and the Hardware Interface (HW) integration for the Fanuc CRX- robot family.

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Resources

Media library

Official technical reference and supporting product media for the FANUC CRX collaborative robot series.

Timeline

  • FANUC and Google collaborate on Physical AI robot systems

    2026-05-13 - Partnership - FANUC announced a strategic collaboration with Google to enhance its Physical AI Robot System. The company said the system uses Google Cloud technologies including Gemini Enterprise and supports Intrinsic Flowstate integration. FANUC said it had already shipped more than 1,000 robots for Physical AI related applications since its iREX reveal.

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Context

Market context

FANUC CRX is a collaborative robot family for industrial cells that need easier teaching, human-adjacent operation and payload coverage from compact handling through larger palletizing and process tasks.

  • Target environment: Manufacturing cells, assembly lines, machine-tending stations, packaging lines, palletizing areas, dispensing, inspection and industrial paint workflows.
  • Workflow context: Collaborative arm automation for handling, assembly, dispensing, inspection, machine tending, palletizing and paint/coating use cases where factories want easier setup than…
  • Customer context: Manufacturers, systems integrators, automation teams, job shops and factory operators evaluating cobots from an established industrial robot OEM.
  • Deployment model: Sold as a commercial FANUC collaborative robot family through FANUC and integrator channels, with multiple payload/reach variants and supporting CRX education, simulation and…
  • Commercial maturity: Commercial FANUC cobot family with multiple payload/reach variants and published product documentation.
  • Adoption constraints: Application fit still depends on safety assessment, tooling, fixturing, reach/payload limits and whether a collaborative cell can meet cycle-time needs versus a higher-speed…
  • Market position: Incumbent industrial cobot family: less startup-novel than newer humanoid or mobile-manipulator systems, but important because it is tied to FANUC's installed factory automation…
  • Adjacent products: Universal Robots UR series, ABB GoFa/SWIFTI, Yaskawa HC series, Doosan collaborative robots

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