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Crowded FABTECH show floor with exhibitor booths and machinery at FABTECH 2024
Events

Come meet Axton Robotics at FABTECH 2026

We skipped Chicago to build the right machine. Now it's ready to meet you. Find us at FABTECH 2026 in Las Vegas.

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Michael Nessim & Malak Mitch

Sep 30, 2026 — 2 min read

Axton robotic cell tending a Haas VF-2 CNC mill in the Axton shop in San Diego
CNC machining

How to get an instant CNC machining quote from your CAD file

Upload a STEP file and get a CNC machining price in seconds. Pick material, quantity, finish and lead time, then send it to purchasing or pay online.

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Malak Mitch

Oct 8, 2026 — 5 min read

Axton Tower CNC machine tending station with a cobot loading a vertical machining center
Build log

Simpler is stronger, why we replaced our carousel with a tower

In April we showed you the carousel. It worked. Then one question made us tear it up and start again.

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Michael Nessim & Malak Mitch

Sep 24, 2026 — 4 min read

Front of the Axton Robotics carousel machine tending station with its cobot arm and shelves of parts
Build log

Why we're skipping the biggest machine tool show in America

Next month, the biggest machine tool show in America opens in Chicago. Every serious name in manufacturing will be there. We won't.

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Michael Nessim & Malak Mitch

Aug 20, 2026 — 2 min read

Plug-and-play cobot machine tending station beside a Haas CNC mill in the Axton Robotics shop
Shop owners

Custom integrator or plug and play, the real cost

Most shop owners who automated a CNC tell the same story. Longer than planned. More than quoted. Works on one part. Here's why.

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Michael Nessim & Malak Mitch

Jun 11, 2026 — 3 min read

Michael Nessim running a Haas CNC mill from its control panel, with a cobot arm beside the machine
Shop owners

The machine tender you can't hire

You have the machines. You have the work. What you don't have is someone to stand in front of the CNC all night.

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Michael Nessim

May 28, 2026 — 3 min read

Close-up of a cobot wrist with its vision camera mounted under the gripper bracket, beside a Haas CNC mill
Tech deep dive

How AI vision teaches a robot to see parts

Most robots in machine shops are blind. They only work if every part sits exactly where it's supposed to. We wanted ours to look first.

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Michael Nessim

May 14, 2026 — 3 min read

Cobot with gripper next to a Haas CNC mill with an AprilTag marker on the control in the Axton Robotics test cell
Tech deep dive

How AprilTags catch a 1 mm shift nobody saw

A forklift brushes the station overnight. It moves one millimeter. Nobody sees it. The robot does.

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Michael Nessim

Apr 30, 2026 — 3 min read

Axton Robotics carousel CNC machine tending station with a parts tray on top, glass front and cobot arm
Build log

Meet the carousel, how we're rethinking CNC machine tending

Most tending cells make the robot reach down for parts. We stood the storage up and made it move. Meet the carousel.

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Michael Nessim & Malak Mitch

Apr 16, 2026 — 5 min read

Axton Robotics co-founders Malak Mitch and Michael Nessim smiling next to a collaborative robot arm in the Axton Robotics CNC automation shop in San Diego, California
Founders

Why two software engineers started a robotics company

Two old friends, 50+ years of software between them, and one stubborn problem worth solving. This is how Axton Robotics started.

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Michael Nessim & Malak Mitch

Jan 15, 2026 — 7 min read