We are heading to Automate 2026, North America's largest automation trade show, marking our first major US event appearance. Dr. Krishna Iyengar, Co-founder & CTO, will be on the ground at Booth #10059 across all four days.
With 50,000+ automation and manufacturing professionals expected on the floor, we are bringing our machine vision AI directly to the people building the future of manufacturing. We aim to showcase how Jidoka is redefining what production-ready industrial AI looks like, and why it works where others have not.
Automate 2026 is where the automotive and medical devices industries come to find technology that holds up on a real shopfloor. That is exactly what we are here to demonstrate.
1. What We're Bringing to the Floor
KOMPASS™: AI for Product Integrity
We are running KOMPASS live at the booth: a hybrid 2D + 3D inspection system operating at full production speed. Not a simulation. Not a controlled environment. The real system, doing exactly what it does on the shopfloor.
Our live demo fuses two inspection streams running in parallel:
- 2D vision (Omron + Basler cameras): fast surface defect detection covering scratches, stains, colour inconsistencies, and shape deviations
- 3D laser profiling (LMI Technologies): dimensional and volumetric checks that 2D simply cannot catch, including warping, height variation, flatness, and thickness
KOMPASS brings both streams together and delivers decisions at up to 12,000 PPM with 99.9% accuracy.
What makes KOMPASS different:
- 99.9% defect detection accuracy at up to 12,000 PPM
- Fewer than 50 good samples to deploy; no defect library needed
- Live on your shopfloor in 6 to 8 weeks, on your existing camera infrastructure
- Closed-loop by design: automatic rejection and routing at the line, not just alerts
- DOJO self-training engine: train new SKUs without any ML expertise
NAGARE™: AI for Process Integrity
We are also showcasing NAGARE through use-case videos at the booth, demonstrating what it means to build quality into the process itself rather than catching problems after they occur.
NAGARE is not a detection system. Think of it as an AI-buddy for your operator, providing real-time step-level guidance on the floor and stopping defects before they ever get made.
What NAGARE brings to your process:
- Prevents defects at the source, before they happen
- Real-time step-level guidance for operators, right at the point of work
- Deploys on your existing cameras using just 600 minutes of process footage
- ROI within 24 months; no proprietary hardware investment required
- Process integrity is a new category. We built NAGARE to define it.
2. Who We Want to Meet
The manufacturers at Automate 2026 are not here to evaluate whether AI works. They are here to find partners who can prove it works on their line, at their pace, within their existing infrastructure. Those are exactly the conversations we are here to have.
If these are questions you are asking, we want to talk:
- How fast can we get this running on our line?
- Can this integrate with what we already have?
- Will it hold up when conditions on the floor change?
We have the answers, and we have the track record to back them up. Every conversation at Booth #10059 starts with deployment speed, integration depth, and operational reliability in the real world.
3. Why We're Ready for This Market
We have spent years proving our technology across Indian manufacturing, one of the most demanding and diverse production environments in the world. That experience has shaped a platform that is built for scale, for variability, and for the realities of a live shopfloor.
Here is what we are bringing to every conversation on the floor:
- Proven scalability. Our deployments span multiple facilities and production lines. We do not just work in controlled setups; we hold up where it matters.
- On-prem first. We understand that your production data stays yours. Our architecture is built for on-prem deployment from the ground up, not bolted on as an afterthought.
- A full platform, not a point solution. KOMPASS and NAGARE together cover both product integrity and process integrity. One platform, two layers of quality, built to grow with you.
- A track record that travels. What we have solved in Indian manufacturing maps directly onto the challenges US and global buyers are dealing with. We are not starting from scratch here.
4. Come Find Us at Booth #10059
If you are at Automate 2026 and thinking about quality, machine vision, or what AI-driven manufacturing actually looks like at production speed, come to Booth #10059. That is where the conversation starts.
Dr. Krishna Iyengar will be there throughout the event, ready for direct technical conversations. Bring your hardest quality challenges. We are ready!
