FANUC America, an industrial automation and robotics company, has established the FANUC Automation Endowed Scholarship Fund in collaboration with the SME Education Foundation, the philanthropic arm of manufacturing nonprofit SME. Worth a minimum of $1 million, the fund is the largest automation scholarship in SME Education Foundation history, according to SME. The FANUC Automation Endowed Scholarship Fund will be used to create annual scholarships for prospective students pursuing careers in advanced manufacturing and automation in the U.S. and Canada. Courtesy of FANUC America. Over the next four years, the fund will be used to establish enduring endowments that will provide annual scholarships totaling at least $50,000 to students pursuing careers in advanced manufacturing and automation across the U.S. and Canada.