What Standard Bots does
Standard Bots designs and manufactures AI-native industrial robot arms, offering four models (Spark, Core, Thor, and Bolt) paired with no-code, learning-by-demonstration software. The company says its robots are designed, engineered, and assembled in-house at its Glen Cove, New York facility, which it is expanding to 70,000 square feet. Customers include NASA, Amazon, Verizon, Lockheed Martin, Sunoco, and the US Army, spanning tasks such as machine tending, welding, palletizing, and finishing. Standard Bots was founded by Evan Beard and David Golden, who began developing the company's first robot from Beard's New York City apartment.
How Standard Bots compares with its closest alternatives
None of the 5 closest alternatives has a free plan, and neither does Standard Bots. None of the 5 offers an API, which Standard Bots does. Standard Bots offers a web app and hardware. Of the alternatives, 2 offer a web app and all 5 offer hardware. Standard Bots was founded in 2017; the alternatives were founded between 2016 and 2024, 1 of them earlier. Standard Bots is based in Glen Cove, United States; 3 of its 5 alternatives are in the United States too, and the others in South Korea and Spain.