Standard Bots Raises $200M at $1B Valuation as China Dominates Global Robot Installations
The Glen Cove, New York company said the round will expand production of AI-native robot arms and humanoids. It plans to manufacture all components domestically by 2027.
forbes.comStandard Bots announced a $200 million Series C funding round on June 10, 2026, at a $1 billion valuation. The round was led by RoboStrategy alongside existing investor General Catalyst. The company last raised $63 million in 2024, also led by General Catalyst.
Standard Bots is based in Glen Cove, New York. It says it is the largest manufacturer of AI-native industrial robots in the United States. The firm makes robot arms and industrial humanoid robots that can be taught by demonstration rather than code.
U.S. Army, and hundreds of smaller manufacturers. CEO Evan Beard said AI-native robots are the essential power tool of the 21st century that will grow American manufacturing and help every worker be a force at work.
He added that the quickest way to full autonomy is through deployments, collecting real-world data, and iterating as fast as possible. S. manufacturing employment fell from 20 million workers in 1979 to 13 million today.
It cited International Federation of Robotics data showing China installed 295,000 industrial robots in 2024, accounting for 54 percent of global installations. 5 times that of second-place Japan, while the Americas accounted for 9 percent of new deployments. S.
Industrial robot deployments by next year. It designs almost all its own parts, including actuators, and assembles every final product in-house. Standard Bots plans to manufacture everything from metal in to robots out in America by 2027.
Andrew Kang, CEO of RoboStrategy, said Standard Bots has solved one of the hardest problems in industrial automation by making robots usable on the factory floor without specialized programming. Max Rimpel, a partner at General Catalyst, said the democratization of robotics is happening on factory floors across America.
