Novarc Technologies is this week unveiling products at Automate 2026 in Chicago.
At the major annual event, the 2026 Technology Impact Awards finalist revealed NovAI Autonomy, which brings machine vision and real-time adaptation to robotic welding, as well as NovHub, an Enterprise Welding Intelligence platform for robots.
“Reindustrialization and reshoring can’t happen at scale without a step-change in fabrication capacity,” posits Soroush Karimzadeh, CEO and co-founder of Novarc Technologies.
Karimzadeh suggests that “Shipbuilding, data centres, energy infrastructure, and heavy equipment are all faced with the same challenges: an ominous shortage of skilled welders, too few robot programmers, and too much part variability for conventional automation to handle.”
“We built NovAI to adapt and respond to these roadblocks,” the CEO explains. “It retrofits onto the robotic cells manufacturers already own, adding real-time vision, adaptive control, and welding intelligence, so manufacturers get more out of the assets they have, while raising quality, consistency, and throughput.”
“The launch of NovAI marks a major milestone in Novarc’s evolution,” Karimzadeh stated, “from leading the pipe welding automation space to enabling AI-powered welding automation across a much broader range of geometries, robots, and industrial fabrication applications.”
NovAI is designed to power robots from ABB and Yaskawa.
“Novarc’s welding intelligence enables vision and adaptive welding to autonomously adjust weld parameters in real time, which translates into significant benefits to our customers by reducing over welding, costly grinding and scrap,” commented Joshua Williamson, Global Product Manager, Joining Technologies and Positioners, ABB.
“We are proud to deepen our engagement with Novarc to incorporate their Enterprise Welding Intelligence into our robotic platforms providing Customers with vision automation and adaptive welding which will provide enhanced precision to our Customers in the structural steel, heavy equipment, data centre, agricultural, mining, and modular construction industries,” remarked Doug Burnside, Executive Vice President of Yaskawa America.
NovHub, meanwhile, allows fabricators and manufacturers to review weld history, investigate quality issues, monitor production trends, and make faster decisions with better visibility into welding performance.
Another product from Novarc is NovPlan, an offline robotic welding software offering that reduces programming time by detecting weld joints and generating robot programs directly from 3D CAD models.
Founded in 2013, Burnaby’s Novarc Technologies last year secured a major Series B round of investment before launching the world’s first fully autonomous TIG welding solution and earning a spot on Deloitte’s 2025 Technology Fast 500 list. The upstart recently appointed Donato Montanari as Chief Technology Officer.
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