Get emails about upcoming episodes & other news → Subscribe to our weekly newsletter!

Automate Mini-series Episodes

If you've ever been to the Automate Show, you know one thing is guaranteed...
You can't see everything.

Between the conference sessions, Automate Theater, hundreds of exhibitors, live demos, and conversations happening across the show floor, there's simply too much great content for one person to catch.

That's exactly why we created our Automate Mini Series.

Over the next few weeks, we'll be sitting down with speakers from Automate 2026 to bring some of the show's best ideas directly to you. Whether you attended and missed a session (or couldn't make it this year at all) these conversations will help you catch up on the topics shaping the future of industrial automation.
Automate mini series: Wesley Garrett
1
July 10, 2026

Automate mini series: Wesley Garrett

Most automation projects stall long before the first robot moves. Not because the technology isn’t ready, but because buying feels like a maze: vague budgets, endless “it depends” quotes, and months of back-and-forth just to learn what something costs. We sit down with Wes from FANUC to talk about a different path for manufacturers, especially in food and beverage packaging: standard, scalable robotic solutions you can pilot quickly and then replicate across lines or plants. We dig into what “au...