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What Instinct is

Robots for grinding.
Your people for everything else.

Instinct builds an AI-driven grinding robot that takes the work that ages out your best grinders (backs, lungs, hearing) off the floor. Your team moves into operator, inspection, and setup roles. Your capacity stays predictable. Fast onboarding, no programming required.

Run your parts
Run your parts

Engineered and validated with

Harmony
Coronado Steel
DURALOY
SFSA
YASKAWA
PushCorp
Carnegie
Built for high-mix foundries.

Held to a higher bar.

Operations running variable castings, working through finishing bottlenecks, and dealing with a shrinking pool of skilled grinders. The standard we hold ourselves to is direct:

Validated on your castings, before any commitment.

Fast Onboarding. No programming required.

Handles casting variation: mold shift, flash, drift.

Operator-trained in one shift, no robotics required.

NO TWO CASTINGS ARE IDENTICAL

Traditional automation runs on repeatability. Foundries run on variation. Our robot scans each part and adapts grinding in real time, handling variation in geometry, temperature, and surface condition where traditional automation fails.

PRODUCTION-READY BY DESIGN

Built for the real production floor.

Our robot is built around the operator's day. Your team handles production: loading parts, running the cell, keeping the line moving.

Robotics programming, motion planning, and force tuning live in our software, not on your floor.

System UI Screenshot

Operator-trained in one shift

Single-screen workflow: Setup, Scan, Run, Pause & Stop

Remote support, when needed

Run your parts
Run your parts
SEE → UNDERSTAND → ACT → REPEAT

How the robot handles each casting.

Instinct is an integrated robotic system — industrial robot, 3D scanner, AI controller, and operator interface — built and validated as one unit.

See
Scans the part as it sits.

Measures each as-cast casting in real-world fixturing, exactly as it sits. Reads actual geometry before any grind motion.

Understand
Identifies what to grind.

Identifies grind regions and features (e.g. risers/flash). Adapts to part-to-part variation automatically

Act
Plans the grind and runs it.

Generates a toolpath on-the-fly for the scanned part. Holds force and removal consistent through finishing.

The cycle repeats: scan, remove, rescan. Like a master grinder, until the part meets target

See
Scans the part as it sits.

Measures each as-cast casting in real-world fixturing, exactly as it sits. Reads actual geometry before any grind motion.

Metallic 3D cube with rough parts
Scanning object
Understand
Identifies what to grind.

Identifies grind regions and features (e.g. risers/flash). Adapts to part-to-part variation automatically

Metallic 3D cube with scan outline
Scan status
Complete
Model Comparison
Active
Deviation
Identified
Act
Plans the grind and runs it.

Generates a toolpath on-the-fly for the scanned part. Holds force and removal consistent through finishing.

The cycle repeats: scan, remove, rescan. Like a master grinder, until the part meets target

Instinct Robotics robotic grinding cell in a foundry setting
Active grinding paths
Blue
Defect regions
Red
Grinding Status

What changes on your floor.

Your grinding line stops being the bottleneck.

Your best grinder stops aging out of the job that's wearing him down.

Cycle times come in where you planned, batch after batch.

Finishing quality stops drifting between shifts.

The next hire doesn't need to be a grinding expert.

Run the process.
See the result.

Ship us 3 representative castings. We'll run them on our cell at Mill 19 and send back cycle times, finish quality, and a deployment breakdown, within 5 days.

A standalone validation run, before any pilot decision. Programming and integration stay with us.

Validated on your real production castings

Operator-trained in one shift

Remote support, when needed

Run your parts
Run your parts