Gendron & Fils deploys industrial humanoid robots at small and medium-sized manufacturers across Quebec, on a monthly subscription. No capital investment. No technical expertise required. No disruption to your teams.
The Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean has always known how to do what other regions hesitate to undertake: transform its industry before necessity forces the issue.
Today, our SME manufacturers face a new challenge. The labour shortage is no longer cyclical — it is structural. Our active workforce is shrinking. Vacant positions are no longer being filled. Contracts are being declined. Growth is slowing.
Humanoid robotics is arriving at the right moment. Not as a replacement, but as reinforcement. Not as disruption, but as a new tool in a long Quebec tradition of industrial tools. Gendron & Fils is the company that brings this tool into your shop, without requiring you to become a robotics company yourselves.
You pay a monthly subscription. No equipment purchase, no capital expenditure, no technological risk on your balance sheet. Robotics becomes a predictable operating expense — like electricity or rent.
Selection, configuration, programming, commissioning, preventive maintenance, ongoing supervision, software updates. Your team keeps doing what they do best; we handle our part.
Robotics transforms a workplace. That transformation must be managed — it cannot be improvised. We accompany your teams from initial diagnosis through six months after deployment.
A humanoid robot is not an artificial intelligence that thinks for you. It is a physical platform that performs repetitive tasks with precision and endurance.
In choosing Gendron & Fils, you are not choosing a mere industrial tool rental service. You are choosing a human partner for your next technological transformation.
Humanoid robotics changes a workplace. It modifies routines, redistributes tasks, raises questions among teams. This transformation can either fracture an organisation or help it grow — depending on whether it is endured or guided.
Our work is to guide it with you.
We address ourselves to the leaders of small and medium-sized manufacturers across the Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean who see change coming and prefer to accompany it rather than wait for it. To companies that have understood the next decade of industry will not look like the previous one — and who choose to be among its architects.
If this posture speaks to you, let's meet for coffee.
The first industrial humanoid platforms accessible to SMEs will become available between 2027 and 2028. Our operational deployments begin within that window.
Until then, we work with our first partners on three things: precise qualification of the target task in your operation, design of a subscription model adapted to your reality, and preparation of the workplace for the robot's arrival.
This 18-to-24-month preparatory work is not passive waiting. It is what separates a successful deployment from a costly experiment.
We are here today to prepare you to have a robot that works — not to sell you one.
We travel anywhere in the Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean. A meeting takes about an hour. No commitment, no pressure — just a frank conversation between people who know industry.
Once a month, a letter on the evolution of industrial robotics in Quebec, lessons from our deployments, and government support programs relevant to manufacturing SMEs.