America's largest manufacturer of AI-native industrial robots.
Glen Cove, NY
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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.
@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: cloud.google.com/transform/s…
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.
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: youtube.com/watch?v=BCfQwnUy…
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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: youtu.be/BcA50QlT9bg?si=osjA…
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.
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: standardbots.com/ai
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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.
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: standardbots.com/ai
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: youtu.be/tzzVyR7Y1qs
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
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 👇
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
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: standardbots.com/ai
“Our mission with AI at Standard Bots is to collapse the time, cost, and expertise it takes to deploy a robot to real productive use.” — Leif Jentoft, Head of Applied AI.
Standard Bots AI makes using robots 10x faster, and anyone can do it. Our AI skills enable frontline workers to program robots to do complex tasks in minutes from an iPad, with no code, no robotics expertise, and no outside integrator.
Say yes to more: standardbots.com/ai
“We believe data quality matters far more than raw volume, and we focus on getting the most out of targeted data rather than chasing the largest possible dataset,” explained Standard Bots Head of Applied AI @leifjentoft.
Jentoft and CEO @evanbeard talked with @ricmac of @latentspacepod about how we build AI-native robots for reliable execution on the factory floor.
Read the full piece: latent.space/p/standard-bots
The simplest robot you (or your five-year-old!) will ever use. No code. No robot knowledge required. Perfect for automating clean-up duties.
Great job, Jack! And thank you to Standard Bots Sales Engineer Nicole Bing for capturing this moment!
Every hour your robot spends on setup is an hour it's not in production, and a waste of your time. Adding a third-party gripper usually means downloading a configuration file and installing it before anything moves.
With Standard Bots, it takes a few taps in our native app. No driver files, no uploads, no integrator. Standard Bots senior software engineer Christine Wolf shows you how easy it is. Just open your software and pick your gripper. The robot does the rest.
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Robots create jobs. Better jobs.
“When we asked parents whether they’d like to see their kids working in manufacturing jobs, the overwhelming response is no. The work is physically demanding and can be dangerous. But when we asked if they’d like to see their kids managing robots, it flipped,” explained @evanbeard, Standard Bots Founder & CEO, in conversation with @JasonrShuman of @PrimaryVC.
Robots take on the heavy, repetitive, dangerous tasks. People move up to running, maintaining, and improving the machines. Work gets safer. Shops get more capacity, and capacity creates room for growth.
When manufacturers become more competitive, they can grow their businesses, create more jobs, and raise wages. For every manufacturing job, another five jobs are supported elsewhere in the economy.
That’s the future we’re building: manufacturing where the work is safer, the jobs are better, and the next generation wants in.
AI-native robots are the essential power tool of the 21st century. See why, this month at @packexposhow and @FabtechExpo.
Get hands-on demos, talk to our team. Get to know America’s largest manufacturer of AI-native robots.
📍 PACK EXPO | October 18–21 | Chicago | Booth N-5080
📍 FABTECH | October 21–23 | Las Vegas | Booth S44000
Join us there.
$200M raised. A 70,000 sq ft facility. Robots in real production.
Try the most advanced tele-op on the market at IROS 2026, Booth 808.
Meet our team — we're hiring.
Only 6% of U.S. manufacturers use robots today. Mostly because they're too hard to use. We're changing that with the latest launch of Standard Bots OS.
Applications engineer Jake Lenihan walks through how to quickly and easily make a routine with Standard Bots.
Positions get stored as spaces. Variables track cycles and equipment states. Five step categories — moves and grippers, control logic, signals, operator prompts, and vision — snap together into a working program.
Fewer clicks, faster programming from the ground up. No code. No robotics experience required.
Most machine tending setups start with a fixture: a custom grid, a nest for every part, and hours of teaching positions before the first cycle runs.
This one starts with a blank table. Set the parts down anywhere.
Our AI-native robots find each one, pick it up, and load it into the machine. And they talk to your Haas natively. Less time building fixtures.
Less time teaching. More time making parts.
"People think of robots as a hardware category, but robots are the thing that creates every other hardware category."
In a conversation with @PrimaryVC's @JasonrShuman, Standard Bots CEO @evanbeard made the case for why building robots in America matters.
Robots build capacity: for jobs, for businesses, for supply chains. Building them here is not just about balance of trade. It's better for the environment and better for national security.