Industry Associations & Organizations

A3 is North America’s largest automation trade association representing more than 1,300 organizations involved in robotics, artificial intelligence, machine vision & imaging, motion control & motors and related automation technologies. 

The ARM Institute leads the way to a future where people and robots work together to respond to our nation’s greatest challenges and to develop and produce the world’s most desired products. 

RoboticsCareer.org is the nation’s only resource that supports the manufacturing workforce at each stage of their robotics career through a comprehensive database of training programs, curated and up-to-date job listings, and career pathway definition and exploration. 

The VEX Robotics Competition is a global robotics competition for middle and high school students, organized by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation. Teams design, build, and program robots to compete in various challenges, fostering skills in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) as well as teamwork, leadership, and problem-solving. 

Founded in 1989 by inventor Dean Kamen, FIRST® is a global nonprofit organization that prepares young people for the future through a suite of life-changing youth robotics programs that build skills, confidence, and resilience. 

The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation’s global mission is to provide every educator with competition, education, and workforce readiness programs to increase student engagement in science, technology, engineering, math, and computer science.  We see a future where every student designs and innovates as part of a team, overcomes failure, perseveres, and emerges confident in their ability to meet global challenges.