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Fox and Castle with an all time horrific NBA finals performance.. pretty wild how bad KAT played and the New York Brunsons still got it done. Brunson is incredible.
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Mitch Johnson lost this game…… how do you have 2 timeouts left with under 40 seconds. Blowing a 30 point lead.
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get this guy a huge factory asap
Jun 9
Today, we’re thrilled to announce our $200M Series C funding round at a $1B valuation, led by @RoboStrategy and existing investors including @generalcatalyst.
Standard Bots is now America’s largest manufacturer of AI-native industrial robots. Our customers include Sunoco, Lockheed Martin, NASA, and the US Army along with hundreds of other manufacturers across the country. We’re proud to say that we’re on track to deploy 10% of all U.S. industrial robots by next year.
We are expanding our Glen Cove, New York facility to 70,000 square feet to scale our vertically integrated production process. We currently design almost all our own parts, including our own actuators, and we assemble every final product in-house. By 2027, we’ll manufacture everything — from metal in to robots out — right here in America.
We believe AI-native robots are the essential power tool of the 21st century — the tool that will grow American manufacturing and help every American worker to be a force at work. You just show your robot how it’s done, and it learns through demonstration. No coding, no consultants, just unbox and deploy faster than anything else on the market.
Right now it’s possible for the United States to revitalize our manufacturing base if we become the worldwide leader in this transformative technology.
We must build American robots, and put them to work in American factories. It’s a national imperative, and it’s our central mission. This fundraise gets us one step closer to the goal.
The future of American manufacturing is bright! Join Standard Bots, and show your robot how it’s done — we’re just getting started.
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Zach Tomkinson retweeted
Jun 9
Thrilled to lead the Standard Bots Series C
Industrial robots can be thought of as the GPU of industrial work. Powered by AI, they’ll be able to power much of the work required in industrial settings - welding, machine tending, assembly, dispensing, sorting, the list goes on. Industrial robots have existed for decades, but it’s important that they’re built and designed for an AI native future.
The work they’ve done over the past decade was not easy - vertical integration, engineering their own parts and a plan to manufacture all of it in America. We talked to many industrial customers and asked them to compare them to the other companies and products on the market and Standard Bots overwhelmingly received the highest marks.
AI-native robot adoption is not a 5-10 year in the future event. It’s happening now and Standard Bots is at the forefront of that. If we want to reindustrialize America and massively scale American manufacturing then we need millions, eventually billions of robots produced in America.
Standard Bots stands to be one of the pillars of American reindustrialization.
Highly recommend following @standardbots & @evanbeard
Jun 9
Today, we’re thrilled to announce our $200M Series C funding round at a $1B valuation, led by @RoboStrategy and existing investors including @generalcatalyst.
Standard Bots is now America’s largest manufacturer of AI-native industrial robots. Our customers include Sunoco, Lockheed Martin, NASA, and the US Army along with hundreds of other manufacturers across the country. We’re proud to say that we’re on track to deploy 10% of all U.S. industrial robots by next year.
We are expanding our Glen Cove, New York facility to 70,000 square feet to scale our vertically integrated production process. We currently design almost all our own parts, including our own actuators, and we assemble every final product in-house. By 2027, we’ll manufacture everything — from metal in to robots out — right here in America.
We believe AI-native robots are the essential power tool of the 21st century — the tool that will grow American manufacturing and help every American worker to be a force at work. You just show your robot how it’s done, and it learns through demonstration. No coding, no consultants, just unbox and deploy faster than anything else on the market.
Right now it’s possible for the United States to revitalize our manufacturing base if we become the worldwide leader in this transformative technology.
We must build American robots, and put them to work in American factories. It’s a national imperative, and it’s our central mission. This fundraise gets us one step closer to the goal.
The future of American manufacturing is bright! Join Standard Bots, and show your robot how it’s done — we’re just getting started.
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Zach Tomkinson retweeted
Jun 4
At #NYTechWeek, Standard Bots CCO @Z_mac39 made the case that AI-native robots are the essential power tool of the 21st century. Our mission is to make them accessible and affordable for every worker.
At Standard Bots, we've deployed industrial robots to hundreds of American companies across nearly every state, from generational small businesses in the heartland to major players in oil and gas, automotive, aerospace, and data centers.
Join us. Let's build the future of American manufacturing--together.
📸@HRobotics98794
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Jun 1
someone give this dude a billion dollars so we can stop whining about not having actuators
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May 14
robotics needs better talent, not just ideas or capital
get good at any of these and become the person every robotics team is trying to hire:
autonomy stack:
– state estimation, planning, controls or the in‑house stack nobody else can touch
sim & test infrastructure:
– lossless logs, reproducible sims, rl loops (nvidia isaac sim, gazebo, mujoco)
fleet ops & deployment:
– ota updates, connectivity, getting data off robots in the field (greengrass, alloy, formant, or duct tape)
data, debugging & replay:
– figuring out why the robot did what it did, logs, time‑series, post‑mission analysis (mostly homegrown, rerun/foxglove, alloy)
embedded & edge systems:
– getting all of this to run on jetson / rb5 / weird industrial pcs
safety, compliance & verification:
– kill switches, test harnesses, ethics boards, fda submissions, and the standards work nobody wants to do
data engine & labelling:
– building the labelling, eval, and feedback loops that keep the robot from drifting into chaos
go to market & raas:
– pricing, contracts, usage‑based billing, customer success for robots‑as‑a‑service
if you’re trying to jump into robotics (or want to work with us), my dms are open 🦾
May 7
if you go all in on robotics now, youd still be early
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May 13
this probably deserves an explanation
looks like a weeee bit of teleoperation here (misses a bunch of packages -> adjusts headset -> no longer misses)
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Zach Tomkinson retweeted
Apr 7
There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.
He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.
When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.
Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.
The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.
Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.
The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.
That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.
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Zach Tomkinson retweeted
good luck to all humanoid robots in agriculture 🌾
I really wish you all well!
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Zach Tomkinson retweeted
Feb 2
When design looks this sharp, investors assume the numbers are too.
That’s the power of a premium landing page.
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Mar 15
robotics parts supply chain is the next chips war. if we accept "american brain, chinese body", we are giving away the farm. if we were serious we'd be plowing billions of dollars into building massive suppliers right now. there is no alternative.
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