Standard Bots raises $200M Series C at $1B valuation, targets 10% of all US industrial robot deployments next year

Standard Bots has raised a $200M Series C at a $1B valuation and is quadrupling its US manufacturing footprint. CEO Evan Beard says the company grew 10x year-on-year in 2025 and expects to account for 10% of all US industrial robot deployments by next year.

The competitive gap

Nearly all industrial robots used in the US today are foreign-made, and the software that runs them reflects it. Beard describes incumbent interfaces as mainframe-era interfaces with single-character menus, systems he says no one has bothered to modernize. Standard Bots is building a vertical alternative: its own motors, motor controllers, and firmware, all designed in-house, with the $200M round funding the next step of manufacturing those components domestically as well.

“Announcing today our series c, so raised 200,000,000 at a $1,000,000,000 evaluation... We're also announcing we're quadrupling our manufacturing footprint. We expect next year to be 10% of all US robotics, industrial robot deployments... Last year we grew 10x year on year.”

The product

The core differentiation is training by demonstration. A factory floor worker can show a robot a task and the system learns to execute it, no software engineering required. With its next software release, Beard says operators will also be able to fine-tune an AI model the same way. No incumbent robotics company is working on this, he argues, and vertical integration across hardware and the AI stack is what makes the full system possible.

Customer base

Standard Bots has "many hundreds" of customers across small and medium businesses in nearly every US state, plus Fortune 500 companies in oil and gas, aerospace, automotive, and data centers. Several private equity firms are using the platform as a roll-up tool, deploying Standard Bots across acquired manufacturing portfolios.

Humanoid robots

Beard is skeptical of humanoids in industrial settings. In a controlled factory or warehouse environment, a legged humanoid carries higher cost and more unique parts without the efficiency gains, producing a worse ROI than a fixed or modular-base robot. He thinks humanoids might eventually belong in the home but says the safety problem is years from being solved — he calls it "the Home Alone test," the ability to stay operational with two small children trying to trip it. Simulating that kind of soft-body interaction to generate the reinforcement learning data needed doesn't yet exist.

His one acknowledged humanoid advantage: raising money.