Standard Bots

America's largest manufacturer of AI-native industrial robots.

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Building America's largest manufacturer of AI-native robots isn't just a national imperative. It's also deeply personal.

@eo_build went inside our Glen Cove factory with CEO @evanbeard and team to tell the story of how we got here, and how we’re helping bring manufacturing and a thriving middle class back to America.

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@Google just featured Standard Bots in its roundup of startups pioneering robotics with AI. Physical AI only matters when it works on the factory floor. That takes hardware, software, and AI built as one system working together.

"The real transformation is happening where these models meet the physical world."

That’s where we live. We’re deploying intelligent robots you can talk to. Robots that adapt. Robots that anyone can use. This is how we expand human capacity.

Read on: https://t.co/gHkmqdlsU1

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@evanbeard Watch the full doc: https://t.co/rbDintmWNT

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Our mission is to expand human capacity with the world’s most accessible robots. Most robots today are just too hard to operate: “$50,000 for a robot to be installed and they can’t do anything themselves but start and stop it.” @evanbeard

That’s the status quo we’re changing. With Standard Bots AI, we’re not just making robots faster and more efficient to install. We’re making robots faster and cheaper to install, tweak, change over, and grow with your business.

Thank you @eo_build for telling this story.

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AI is giving robots something they’ve never had before: the ability to handle variability.

“It can feel like magic, because now you can automate tasks you couldn’t automate before.”

Standard Bots CEO @evanbeard explains the shift in conversation with @theneurondaily's @CoreyNoles.

What does this mean for manufacturing? For American manufacturing as a whole? Watch: https://t.co/1ooijjOjP8

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“What we see and what the research shows is that factories that automate, they're the ones growing, they're the ones creating more jobs.”

Standard Bots CEO @evanbeard spoke with @sophiadew on @MTSlive about how Standard Bots AI is changing access to industrial robotics. By making robots easier to use and program, we're putting automation within reach of manufacturers across a wide range of use cases and industries.

“They get more business because they're able to offer a lower price to their customers.”

Watch: https://t.co/HvteoWCnuf

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Standard Bots CEO @evanbeard reveals why nearly 99% of factory robots still operate like arcade claw machines, and how AI could finally change that:

"Almost 99% of manufacturing robots today, people don’t realize, they just are replaying the same motions again and again."

"You’ll save points, kind of like the crane game at Denny’s, and then the robot will replay through those points. That’s all those robots really do all day long."

"We’ve released a vision encoder trained on billions of images where you can really quickly train a model to find objects and pick them up, and few shot learning, where you demonstrate a task to the robot and it learns from you."

"One is making the robots so anyone can take them out of the box, like an iPhone type experience for what traditionally is a mainframe computer type product."

"The other is making them more capable, so you can automate jobs that previously had too much variability."
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"The robot is repeatable, it's dependable, and it saves me an incredible amount of time".

For Joel Antal, a veteran CNC machinist turned robot operator at Path Machining + Automation, that reclaimed time turns into more capacity: more parts out the door, faster.

This is what makes AI-native robots the essential power tool of the 21st century.

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Introducing Standard Bots AI

“We chose Standard Bots for two reasons: the speed of development is highly compressed, and the interface for programming the robot is so much simpler. With Standard Bots AI, that's even faster.” — Adrian Nistler, President and CEO, Path Machining & Automation

Standard Bots AI robots deliver dramatically faster setups, faster changeovers, and faster paybacks. This is why robots are the new essential power tool of the 21st century.

Our mission is to expand human capacity with the world’s most accessible robots. We’re building this future in Glen Cove, New York, and on hundreds of factory floors, and counting.

Say yes to more: https://t.co/HR5Z77JkUN

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@eo_build @evanbeard Watch the full story: https://t.co/MndzRQLOyw

[Standard Bots @standardbots]

Building America's largest manufacturer of AI-native robots isn't just a national imperative. It's also deeply personal.

@eo_build went inside our Glen Cove factory with CEO @evanbeard and team to tell the story of how we got here, and how we’re helping bring manufacturing and a thriving middle class back to America.

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@JasonrShuman That's our CEO!

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Our new @standardbots video just dropped, along with their latest technology: with just an iPad, anyone on the factory floor can set up a new routine for their industrial robot to follow.

All under 15 minutes, no prior robotics experience needed.

Standard Bots is making it easier than ever to install and deploy robots on factory floors, a big move for an industry that’s traditionally been plagued by hard-to-use robots.

Shoutout to the @eo_build team behind the video: @chanwoolimX, @izzyjhlee, @jiyoon_mov, @ty_kimx, Phoenix, Hung.

We cover fast-growing startups set up to take the stage next. Let me know if you want to be featured on our channel.

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@evanbeard Ten years, thousands of components, every circuit board made in-house in Glen Cove, NY.

Thanks to @eo_build for showing the world how we build. 🇺🇸

[Evan Beard @evanbeard]

A talented crew (EO) spent weeks on a mini documentary on @standardbots, and it's live today.

Their crew came to our factory in Glen Cove, New York, and saw everything up close. That included the SMT room where we make every circuit board that goes into our robots, a factory floor we're growing from 30,000 to 70,000 square feet, and the team training our AI on real data from robots working in the field. A lot of the Standard Bots team came in to show them what we do and why we care so much about it.

I'm really proud of how they told our story, including the hard parts. It took us seven years to sell our first 100 robots. At one point my friends staged an intervention and told me it was time to go do something else. We kept going.

Here's why. Last year China installed 9x as many robots as the United States. Robots aren't just another kind of hardware. They're what makes everything else: semiconductors, medicines, defense systems, energy infrastructure.

Our mission is to bring robotics and manufacturing back to the U.S. and rebuild the middle class along with it. Manufacturing has always been the heart of the American middle class. Robots make American workers more productive, and that's how we earn the right to create high-paying jobs here. Instead of welding in the smoke, a worker runs six welding robots. That's a better job, a safer job and a higher-paying job.

We build robots in America, for use in America.

Thank you to the EO team, and to everyone at Standard Bots who made time for this. Watch the full episode here:

https://t.co/ZeictLZwL9

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"One of our missions with AI at Standard Bots is to collapse the time, cost and expertise to deploy a robot to real productive use." - @leifjentoft, Head of Applied AI at Standard Bots, introducing our new AI Locate skill.

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Introducing Standard Bots AI

“We chose Standard Bots for two reasons: the speed of development is highly compressed, and the interface for programming the robot is so much simpler. With Standard Bots AI, that's even faster.” — Adrian Nistler, President and CEO, Path Machining & Automation

Standard Bots AI robots deliver dramatically faster setups, faster changeovers, and faster paybacks. This is why robots are the new essential power tool of the 21st century.

Our mission is to expand human capacity with the world’s most accessible robots. We’re building this future in Glen Cove, New York, and on hundreds of factory floors, and counting.

Say yes to more: https://t.co/HR5Z77JkUN

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What does AI really mean for robots? Start with this: anyone on your floor can use one.

At Standard Bots, we’re focused on building robots that are easy to use. Set up a routine in minutes from an iPad. Show your robot how it’s done, and it learns by demonstration. No robotics experience required.

When a robot is that easy to use, the people who know the work can put it to work. Machining, welding, palletizing, assembly, finishing, inspection, and more, run by the team you already have.

More parts out the door. More shifts covered. More capacity to compete.

That's what AI means for robots, and for manufacturing as a whole. Intelligent robots are the essential power tool of the 21st century.

Listen to our AI launchast: https://t.co/CKy0956leh

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You've got more welding work than welders. Every job you turn down is revenue lost.

Standard Bots offers a pre-engineered MIG welding system made with welders in mind. Set it up fast. Teach it without writing a line of code.

Your welders spend their time on the hard parts, and the robot handles the repeat work.

Come teach a robot at @FabtechExpo, October 21-23
📍Booth S4400

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Our CEO @evanbeard sat down with @RoboStrategy, @Rewkang and Scott Walter to talk about the Standard Bots AI launch.

“We’re focused on making robots that are easy to use. The paradigm today is, if you want a robot, you go to an installer or an integrator. They often charge as much as the robot.”

With Standard Bots AI, anyone can program a robot to do complex tasks in minutes from an iPad, with no code, no fixtures, and no outside integrator. That means faster setups, faster changeovers, and faster paybacks.

Watch the full interview 👇

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Standard Bots CEO @evanbeard breaks down their new AI platform and how it could revolutionize American manufacturing.

"This allows you to essentially vibe code your robot"

Full interview:
0:00 Intro
6:39 Vibe coding robots
8:19 Locate vision system
11:52 400+ customers
13:58 Origin story
16:08 Where are the competitors?
18:56 Vertical integration is key
22:29 Why robot arms over humanoids
27:04 Robots vs the car industry
29:23 The thing to fear as a builder
31:31 America vs China
34:21 Congress and FCC robot ban
38:31 99% of US arms made abroad
42:31 Building everything inhouse
44:47 The plan to win
47:10 Targeting 10% of US installs
49:22 How the next decade will look like

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"The bigger vision? Building the Anthropic of the physical world — and making robots intelligent enough to adapt when real-world conditions change. That's what Standard Bots is making possible with a new generation of AI-powered robot training tools."

@Forbes robotics reporter @johnkoetsier spoke to
@evanbeard about the launch of Standard Bots AI.

Watch the podcast here: https://t.co/bZsGJQfaun

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Introducing Standard Bots AI

“We chose Standard Bots for two reasons: the speed of development is highly compressed, and the interface for programming the robot is so much simpler. With Standard Bots AI, that's even faster.” — Adrian Nistler, President and CEO, Path Machining & Automation

Standard Bots AI robots deliver dramatically faster setups, faster changeovers, and faster paybacks. This is why robots are the new essential power tool of the 21st century.

Our mission is to expand human capacity with the world’s most accessible robots. We’re building this future in Glen Cove, New York, and on hundreds of factory floors, and counting.

Say yes to more: https://t.co/HR5Z77JkUN

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Watch the Standard Bots AI launchcast.

“There’s no reason you can’t build an easy-to-use robot. It just seems like nobody’s really tried.”

Standard Bots CEO Evan Beard and Head of Applied AI Leif Jentoft introduce Standard Bots AI, discuss the state of advanced robotics today, why we’re betting the company on end-to-end AI, and what it all means for U.S. manufacturing and beyond.

Say yes to more: https://t.co/HR5Z77JSKl

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@Rewkang Yes @Rewkang! Just show your robot how it's done. No robotics PhD required.