Grid Dynamics Holdings, Inc., a leading provider of technology consulting, platform and product engineering, AI, and digitalengagement service, is officially set to showcase its TPGen robotic solution at Automatica 2025, the world’s leading event for smart automation and robotics.
According to certain reports, the stated solution has been developed in close collaboration with Wandelbots, and it is developed to streamline robotic inspection workflows for welding, gluing, and surface processing applications.
To understand the significance of such a development, we must take into account how assessing workpiece geometries, planning the scanning processes, and creating tool-paths have often caused significant challenges for applications that involve robotic inspection of weld, seams, and surfaces. These challenges are also not just time-related but also lead to higher overall costs.
In response, Grid Dynamics’ latest brainchild effectively eliminates the need for manual analysis and tool-path creation to help manufacturers reduce analysis and programming time, cut operational costs and overhead, lower energy consumption, as well as shorten time-to-market. More on that would reveal how TPGen solution runs on top of Wandelbots’ NOVA platform, offering a dedicated app for seamless and highly automated feasibility analysis, tool-path generation, and trajectory execution.
“TPGen represents a major shift in how manufacturers approach robot programming for inspection use cases,” said Ilya Katsov, Chief Technology Officer at Americas for Grid Dynamics. “By automatically creating and optimizing tool-paths from CAD models and enabling truly automated workflows, we’re helping our clients reduce analysis time from weeks to minutes while significantly lowering operational costs and energy consumption.”
Talk about the whole value proposition on a slightly deeper level, we begin from its ability to generate tool-paths automatically. This essentially involves creating and optimizing tool-paths from CAD models within minutes. In fact, the given mechanism is able to thrive equally well even for highly complex geometries.
Next up, there is a facility to analyze feasibility in a rather instant fashion. Here, the technology basically performs automatic feasibility analysis based on workpiece CAD models so to streamline planning and reduce setup time.
Another detail worth a mention is rooted in the prospect of optimizing processes intelligently, something which gets TPGen to minimize cycle time, reduce energy consumption, and refine execution plans, efforts largely driven by quality metrics and real-time feedback.
Hold on, we still have a couple of bits left to unpack, considering we haven’t yet touched upon the solution’s knowhow in terms of achieving seamless integration. You see, TPGen can connect, at launch, with major robotic arms and camera systems through a hardware-agnostic design.
Rounding up highlights would be the promise to leverage advanced computer vision solutions. Thanks to what is understood to be a flexible architecture, the given technology can collaborate with custom or third-party data and image analytics solutions to achieve relatively smarter outcomes.
“Wandelbots empowers partners and customers to transform robotic automation into intelligent, reusable, and scalable solutions,” said Katharina Jessa, Chief Revenue Officer at Wandelbots. “TPGen by Grid Dynamics is a compelling example of what becomes possible with our platform — automating robot path planning for complex inspection tasks, drastically reducing engineering time and enabling flexible deployment across robot brands. It reflects the power of software-first innovation in solving high-impact industrial challenges.”
