Standard Bots lets factory workers program its robot arms by prompt, with three AI skills on an iPad

Standard Bots said in a Business Wire release on Oct 15 that it has launched Standard Bots AI, a no-code layer for its industrial robot arms with three skills run from an iPad: Agent, which builds a robot routine from a typed request such as a machine-tending job after asking about the setup; Locate, which lets an operator tap or describe a part in the robot's camera feed so the arm finds and tracks it without fixtures; and Inspect, which runs customer-trained defect-detection models built with Roboflow.

The Glen Cove, New York company claims Locate cuts programming time by 90% and that its robots deploy and pay back twice as fast as the industry standard, figures it did not support with data in the release; it said customers can bring their own models and that it is developing its own foundation models.

The launch targets the small shops that dominate US manufacturing, about 200,000 of 240,000 firms with fewer than 20 staff, the release said, citing the National Association of Manufacturers. It follows Standard Bots' $200 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation in June, which brought its verified funding in MEKAWIRE to $263 million across two rounds since July 2024.