CNC lathe machine-tending automation
Operus
Automates workpiece loading and unloading on CNC lathes with a collaborative robot. AI-based workpiece recognition adapts to changes in part type and position, and the system fits into tight floor space.
Physical AI for Manufacturing
The limits of manpower are not the limits of the factory.
Workers are hard to find, but orders keep coming. ZREK builds AI robots that take on the tasks teach-and-repeat automation could never reach — keeping people on the work only people can do. What the first robot learns on your floor makes the second one faster.
Industrial AI Robots
Physical AI — best known from autonomous vehicles and humanoids — and industrial robots, which have repeated fixed motions with precision for decades. ZREK works at their intersection: industrial AI robots that see, decide, and act on the factory floor.
- Machine tending for high-mix, low-volume production
- Inspection of parts with individual variation
- Processes that previously demanded constant re-teaching
Products
AI agent for machine tools
Misril
Collects operational data from existing machine tools without modification. AI supports completion-time prediction, alarm response, and prioritizing improvements.
misril.comCase Study
Robotics × AI ｜ Metal machining
Automated workpiece handling on CNC lathes
— Ohya Seisakujyo Co., Ltd.
Skilled machinists were tied up in repetitive production work, and conventional automation was too bulky and costly for high-mix parts. ZREK automated workpiece loading and unloading with a collaborative robot: AI recognition handles changes in part type and position, in a compact footprint that fits the existing line.
Company
- Company
- ZREK Inc. (株式会社Zrek)
- Founded
- April 2021
- CEO / CTO
- Yuki Imamura
- Employees
- 15
- Business
- Development of robot systems for manufacturing — integrated from hardware to AI software
- Head Office
- B1F, 1-6-12 Jinnan, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- R&D / Sales
- ZREK Labs (Kawasaki, Kanagawa) / Nagoya Sales Office (STATION Ai, Nagoya, Aichi)
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