Robotiq moves to simplify palletizing deployments with new IQ platform

Robotiq Inc. this week released IQ, an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled platform intended to make the deployment of palletizing robots simpler.

The Lévis, Quebec-based company said the new platform gives its customers straightforward answers on what fits their operations, what it costs, and how long a deployment would take. Typically, getting answers to these questions can require weeks of back and forth, engineering hours, and a site visit.

“Automation does not scale when integration remains manual,” stated Samuel Bouchard, the CEO of Robotiq.

IQ starts with a fit check, not a site visit

Before any site visit, before any engineering hours, before any quote, Robotiq said IQ asks for just five minutes of the customer’s time. That is enough to find out whether palletizing fits its floor, what the deployment realistically looks like, and whether the financial return makes sense for an operation, including in a single shift.

The structured assessment is designed to give a business a concrete answer at the start of a project rather than at the end of a long discovery process. If it is a fit, it has a clear path forward. If it is not, the organization does not have to spend weeks finding that out, said Robotiq.

For instance, a palletizing project can have thousands of moving parts. They include floor layout, the product mix, and the throughput targets, to name just a few. Getting those details wrong late in a project is expensive in time and money. IQ is built to get them right early, the company claimed.

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Once the fit is confirmed, IQ powers the full project with the know-how of more than 1,000 Robotiq deployments. It captures what an operation actually looks like, connects the right people at the right moment, and generates a validated Workcell design simulated in the factory or warehouse environment.

“Cycle time, reach, payload — every spec [is] confirmed before anything is installed,” claimed Robotiq. The gap between what was promised and what gets delivered on Day 1 closes considerably when the work is done upfront, it said.

IQ allows for easier scaling

Once the first palletizing workcell is running and the customer are ready to add a second line, the same path applies. Robotiq asserted that no custom engineering from scratch is needed, since the know-how from the first deployment is already in its system.

IQ coordinates every stakeholder, including the customer’s team, local partners, and Robotiq experts, through a structured digital workflow. The partners stay central, bringing the local expertise, installation capacity, and ongoing support to keep lines running. IQ gives them better information and a repeatable process, so every project moves faster than the last, said Robotiq.

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“For manufacturers, this means a clearer path to automation — fewer surprises, faster decisions, more predictable performance, and better financial justification, including in many one-shift operations,” said Bouchard.

IQ is now available

IQ is available now for palletizing applications. Robotiq said it plans to add new features and to extend the same “automatic integration” model to additional robotic applications.

“With IQ, we are moving from manually engineering robotic systems one project at a time to automatically generating workcells from real customer inputs, Robotiq components, AI, and proven know-how from thousands of past projects,” Bouchard said.