(Flexxbotics: Boston) -- Flexxbotics, delivering digital solutions for robot-driven manufacturing at scale, announced that CEO and co-founder Tyler Bouchard made a presentation at the Innovation Expo 2025 co-hosted by the Ford Motor Co. and Industry 4.0 Accelerator. The full day conference was held Nov. 5, 2025, at Ford’s global headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan.

The Innovation Expo convened Ford’s manufacturing and IT teams to hear about leading solutions tailored to their specific initiative areas. For this year’s conference, 15 selected technology partners were invited to showcase breakthroughs in robotics, digitalization, vision systems, industrial mobile robots, and other advanced manufacturing solutions.

The conference enabled in-depth discussions about incorporating manufacturing technologies into Ford’s factories to improve efficiency, quality, and sustainability. Sessions provided Ford representatives with a unique opportunity for curated collaboration to explore innovations specifically matched to their operational needs.

During his presentation, Bouchard shared how Flexxbotics’ platform provides universal interoperability and orchestration of robots with factory machines and inspection systems while working with existing enterprise IT systems. He focused on how manufacturers are harnessing Flexxbotics software-defined automation to enable autonomous process control for scaling deployments of production robotics.

“We believe the future requires ever greater levels of manufacturing autonomy, and that factories must be able to add these technologies to existing infrastructure without interoperability barriers or wholesale equipment replacement,” Bouchard said. “We’re honored to present at this high-impact event, and to provide inputs that can help Ford shape its smart factory road map for the years ahead.”

Flexxbotics’ participation reflects its expanding role in the reindustrialization movement and the necessity for software-driven autonomy in the industrial AI era. Learn why Reindustrialization Won’t Work Without Robotics in The Robot Report article, and discover how Flexxbotics enables robot-driven manufacturing at https://flexxbotics.com/.