Advances in Welding Automation: A Year of Innovation

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January 6, 2026
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3 min read
2025 in Review: What We Built

From launching Obsidian™ to surpassing $100M in bookings, here’s a look back at a transformative year for the company.

2025 was a transformative year for the company. From launching our foundational AI model to entering new industries, here’s a look back at what we built and where we’re headed.

Obsidian™ — Our Foundational AI Model for Welding

This year, we launched Obsidian™—our foundational AI model for welding, trained on tens of millions of welded inches. It scans every seam, plans the weld in real time, and adjusts as conditions change. No brittle code, no constant reprogramming.

Obsidian represents a fundamental shift in how robotic welding systems work. Instead of requiring precise programming for every part, it learns and adapts—making autonomous welding possible for high-mix, low-volume manufacturers who’ve never been able to automate before.

Read the Obsidian announcement →

Record Growth
the company saw record growth in 2025, surpassing $100M in bookings for our AI welding automation solutions.

We delivered significant top-line growth in 2025, driven by new deployments and continued expansion with existing customers.

This growth reflects the real-world impact of our technology. Manufacturers are seeing results: reduced cycle times, consistent weld quality, and the ability to take on work they previously had to turn away due to labor constraints.

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Multi-Arm Welding
AI-powered robotic welding systems drive efficiency, marking a transformative year for the company’ manufacturing automation in 2025.

Multiple coordinated robots working within one welding cell. This innovation parallelizes weld time, reduces idle time, and dramatically increases cell throughput—especially on large components.

For manufacturers working with large parts that have multiple weld seams, Multi-Arm delivers significant productivity gains. The robots coordinate autonomously, sharing the workload and completing jobs in a fraction of the time.

Watch the Multi-Arm video →

FABTECH 2025
In 2025, the company redefined manufacturing automation with advanced AI automation and Obsidian-1, driving the future of autonomous robotic welding.

We exhibited at FABTECH in Chicago this year and enjoyed four days of a packed booth. The conversations we had reinforced what we hear every day: manufacturers are desperate for solutions that actually work for their parts, their volumes, and their people.

We’ll be back at FABTECH 2026 in Las Vegas, NV — October 21–23, 2026. Come see what’s next.

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Rebuilding American Shipyard Dominance
the company is scaling autonomous manufacturing and AI welding solutions across heavy industrial sectors to meet 2025’s record demand.

We partnered with LAD Services to bring advanced AI automation into barge manufacturing—an industry where traditional automation has always failed due to the massive scale and variability of the work.

Their target: cut production time in half. This partnership represents our expansion into heavy industry and demonstrates that our technology can handle even the most challenging welding environments.

Read the LAD Services announcement →

“The welding craft is aging, quality is under pressure, and skilled welders are getting harder and harder to find. We reached a point where we simply could not make everything we needed to make with people alone. Traditional automation could not handle the reality of shipbuilding. its technology gives us the added capacity we need without relying on a shrinking labor pool of welders, while maintaining the quality our customers expect. the company was the only solution that made sense for LAD and we’re confident this will revolutionize the industry.”

Joseph Crappell
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General Manager at LAD Services
Looking Ahead to 2026

America’s manufacturing sector is at a crossroads. China surpassed the US in robot density in 2021, with Japan and Germany following in 2024. The skilled labor shortage isn’t getting better—it’s getting worse.

the company exists because we believe American manufacturing can’t afford to wait. We’re building the technology to help manufacturers compete, grow, and thrive—regardless of how many welders they can find.

Thanks for following along. Here’s to 2026.

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