Tell us about your company.

OnLogic is a global industrial computer manufacturer that designs highly configurable, solution-focused hardware for the IoT edge. Our systems are purpose-built to operate in the world’s most demanding environments and are meticulously engineered to protect against damage or data corruption due to dust, shock, vibration, interference, or extreme temperatures. By combining modular design with a direct sales model and in-region technical expertise, we help engineers and project managers solve their toughest technology challenges. Whether it is powering Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs), hosting centralized SCADA platforms, or enabling real-time vision inspection systems, we provide the reliable hardware needed to move ideas into action.

Your company will be exhibiting at Automate, what is it that makes this an important event for your company?

Automate has grown to represent the entire spectrum of modern industrial automation, robotics, and logistics. This makes it a critical event for OnLogic because our hardware serves as the physical backbone for these advanced technological deployments. The show offers an unparalleled opportunity to connect directly with the operational leaders and engineers who are moving past theoretical AI models into physical, scaled execution. Whether an organization is trying to deploy autonomous material handling systems or optimize facility-wide data collection, it's the ideal venue to showcase how our right-sized computing solutions make those complex implementations possible.

What makes your booth a must visit for Automate Attendees?

Attendees interested in bridging the gap between sophisticated software and rugged reliability should make Booth 867 in the South Hall a priority. This year, we are focusing heavily on the realities of Physical AI and full-facility hardware coverage through live, interactive use cases. In addition to our full line of industrial computing solutions including palm-sized gateways, edge servers, and touchscreen HMI systems, we'll be demonstrating:

• Active Workplace Safety: We have partnered with viso.ai to run a live demonstration of an active forklift near-miss detection system. The computer vision software runs entirely at the edge on a rugged computer from OnLogic right next to the camera, showing how facilities can deploy real-time safety models without cloud latency, utilizing existing camera architecture.
• Automated Quality Control: Visitors can see our own live machine vision inspection demonstration, which utilizes a fine-tuned YOLOv10 object detection model to scan rotating components for defects and physically trigger a sorting solenoid.
• Workload Consolidation: We'll be featuring the Helix 520 Series of industrial computers, showcasing how teams can simplify facility architecture by running containerized workloads simultaneously on a single fanless computer.
• Next-Gen Processing Previews: We're also giving a technical preview of an upcoming architectural refresh for our flagship Karbon 800 Series, introducing the brand-new Intel Core Series 2 processing family (code-named Bartlett Lake-S) with P-core-only configurations for deterministic robotics performance.

Automate has many educational sessions, forums & Demo’s, is your company involved in any of them this year?

OnLogic is not participating in formal panel sessions or educational forums this year. Instead, we are dedicating our technical resources to 1-on-1 consultations at Booth 867. Our engineering and AI Consulting teams will be on hand to provide tailored technical advice and help visitors pinpoint the exact, right-sized hardware configurations required for their unique automation and robotics rollouts.

When you get a chance to walk the exhibit hall floor yourself, what is it you will be most interested to see? Any educational sessions, pavilions etc. you plan on attending?

We are particularly interested in exploring the latest advancements in autonomous logistics, mobile manipulation, and multi-modal sensor fusion. Seeing how our partners and peers are implementing cutting-edge generative AI models into physical robotic controls is always inspiring. We also plan to look closely at the latest developments in electrical cabinet deployments and decentralized facility management, as these are areas where our ultra-compact, fanless systems, like our popular CL260 small form factor controller, are becoming increasingly vital for localized data management.

AI will of course be a huge topic. Be it automation, robotics, how is your company's services and products utilizing AI now to improve business?

We empower our customers to leverage "Physical AI" where it matters most: localized at the edge. Advanced software models struggle when restricted by cloud latency, bandwidth costs, or spotty connectivity. Our hardware portfolio is specifically engineered to handle the heavy computational lift of local AI inferencing. By supporting powerful accelerators like NVIDIA Blackwell alongside next-generation Intel processing, our systems allow for real-time defect detection, predictive maintenance, and autonomous navigation. We focus heavily on "right-sizing" hardware so users can avoid over-provisioning expensive, unnecessary discrete graphics cards, which can be cost prohibitive as projects scale.

Give us your thoughts on what the future holds for robotics & automation.

We think the future of these industries, in part, hinges on reliable hybrid architectures (with resources deployed both in the cloud and at the edge), system reliability, and workload consolidation. As facilities move away from rigid, single-task automation toward highly adaptive, learning environments, the complexity of the underlying software increases exponentially. To manage this at scale, the industry must transition away from sprawling, disjointed hardware stacks. The future belongs to powerful, consolidated edge platforms capable of handling real-time SoftPLCs, SCADA data, and localized machine vision models simultaneously. As AI becomes a standard operational requirement across all industrial sectors, the need for trusted, long-lifecycle, and purpose-built edge hardware will only grow. OnLogic will continue to provide the resilient physical foundation that makes that hyper-efficient future possible.

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OnLogic

OnLogic is a global industrial computer manufacturer who designs highly-configurable, solution-focused computers engineered for reliability at the IoT edge. Their systems operate in the world's harshest environments, empowering customers to solve their most complex computing challenges, no matter their industry. OnLogic has helped more than 70,000 customers worldwide advance their ideas with computers that are designed to last, built to order and delivered in days.

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