Formant F3 Brings Generative AI and Agentic Reasoning to Robot Ops

Formant announced F3, the world’s first AI-native robotics management platform powered by Generative AI and Agentic Reasoning. F3 brings breakthrough intelligence to the orchestration layer—transforming how robots are managed, decisions are made, and operations scale across the enterprise.

AI adoption is accelerating across the enterprise. According to McKinsey, 72% of organizations now use AI, and 71% deploy generative AI in at least one business function. But while robots are getting smarter, the software used to manage them hasn’t kept up.

“Something’s wrong here,” said Jeff Linnell, Founder and CEO of Formant. “AI is supposed to make work easier. But while the robots have evolved, the management layer is stuck in the past. The real bottleneck isn’t the machines—it’s the lack of intuitive, purpose-built software to run them. With F3 it’s not just about managing robots anymore. It’s about orchestrating intelligence.”

With F3, Formant introduces the first robotics platform built from the ground up to harness the full power of AI—predicting problems before they occur, surfacing insights from complex data, and making robotics operations accessible to anyone through natural language.

A generative AI interface for the entire platform. Just ask—F3 responds instantly with answers, visualizations, or direct robot control.

A 24/7 agentic intelligence layer that monitors, analyzes, and proactively recommends.

An AI-powered system that turns scattered documentation into actionable answers—instantly.

Autonomous AI agents that conduct multi-step investigations across data, systems, and fleet behavior.

These AI-native features are in addition to Formant’s proven capabilities in fleet management, teleoperation, mission control, tasking, incident resolution, and performance analytics—trusted by enterprises like Softbank and BP.

F3 isn’t just a product launch—it’s the first major step in Formant’s broader vision for Physical AI: a world where machines sense, decide, and act autonomously—intelligently, and in full alignment with humans.

Yet most solutions focus narrowly on connecting robots to AI models, ignoring business context—ERPs, data warehouses, ticketing systems. The result: smart machines that are disconnected from enterprise reality. Formant believes intelligence means more than perception—it means relevance.

Format’s plan is to bring the data from machines, AI models, and enterprise systems together onto a single software platform. With this approach, AI models can be trained on very large, company-specific and relevant data sets, creating an extremely intelligent, effective, and transformational ecosystem. In essence, what ChatGPT did for the digital world, Formant will do for the physical world.

Formant’s approach unifies three essential elements into one platform:

“We’re entering an era where machines don’t just execute commands—they collaborate,” said Linnell. “Where every machine action improves the entire system. Where AI becomes a trusted partner, not just a tool. The revolution isn’t coming. It’s here.”

Source: Formant media announcement