Facts

• Company: FANUC
• Product type: Collaborative Robot
• Status: commercial
• Capability focus: Collaborative Manipulation
• Website: https://www.fanucamerica.com/products/robots/series/collaborative-robots

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Timeline / Research
• Sources

Summary

FANUC CRX collaborative robot series is a family of compact cobots for flexible industrial automation. The robots emphasize easy programming, hand guidance, safe collaboration and payload options for assembly, handling and machine-tending work.

Overview

FANUC CRX collaborative robot series is a family of compact cobots for flexible industrial automation. The robots emphasize easy programming, hand guidance, safe collaboration and payload options for assembly, handling and machine-tending work.

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 tradit…
• 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 cont…
• 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 indus…
• 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 b…
• Adjacent products: Universal Robots UR series, ABB GoFa/SWIFTI, Yaskawa HC series, Doosan collaborative robots

Audience

Factories

Workflow

Collaborative arm automation for handling, assembly, dispensing, inspection, machine tending, palletizing and paint/coating use cases where factories want easier setup than traditional guarded robot cells.

Capability

collaborative manipulation

Deployment environment

Manufacturing cells, assembly lines, machine-tending stations, packaging lines, palletizing areas, dispensing, inspection and industrial paint workflows.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Factories
• Workflow: Collaborative arm automation for handling, assembly, dispensing, inspection, machine tending, palletizing and paint/coating use cases where factories want easier setup than traditional guarded robot cells.
• Capability: collaborative manipulation
• Deployment environment: Manufacturing cells, assembly lines, machine-tending stations, packaging lines, palletizing areas, dispensing, inspection and industrial paint workflows.

Specifications

• Payload Capacity Kg Range: 5-30 kg across CRX models kg
• Speed Range: 1000 mm/s collaborative speed m/s
• Dof: 6
• Reach: 994-1889 mm across CRX models
• Repeatability: Model dependent; CRX-10iA/L Paint listed at +/-0.04 mm
• Safety: Collaborative contact-stop functions; CRX-10iA/L Paint adds ex-proof paint configuration
• Applications: Handling, assembly, dispensing, inspection, machine tending, packaging, palletizing and paint/coating workflows
• Variant Summary: CRX-5iA: 5 kg / 994 mm; CRX-10iA: 10 kg / 1249 mm; CRX-10iA/L: 10 kg / 1418 mm; CRX-20iA/L: 20 kg / 1418 mm; CRX-30iA: 30 kg at 1756 mm or 25 kg at 1889 mm.
• Programming: Hand-guided teaching, tablet-style CRX programming and FANUC controller ecosystem

Timeline / Research

• 2026-05-13 - Partnership - FANUC and Google collaborate on Physical AI robot systems - FANUC announced a strategic collaboration with Google to enhance its Physical AI Robot System.
• 2025-06-17 - Research Publication - ROS2 FANUC interface paper evaluates open hardware integration for CRX cobots - The paper introduces a ROS2 control hardware interface for the FANUC CRX robot family and integrates it…