Forget everything you thought you knew about programming robots, because Standard Bots just dropped a game-changer! Now, if you’ve got an iPad, you can basically “vibe code” a robot to do complex tasks in minutes, no fancy coding, no expensive experts, and potentially save your company millions. CEO Evan Beard explains it like chatting with your robot, telling it what you want to automate, much like you would with AI tools like Claude Code. This innovative platform is throwing out the old rulebook, making industrial automation incredibly accessible to anyone on the frontline.
This is a massive shift from the usual headache of industrial automation. Traditionally, getting a robot to do anything useful meant shelling out big bucks for a systems integrator, who often cost more than the robot itself just to set it up. Standard Bots is changing that with new AI skills like “Agent” for that chat interface, “Locate” to help robots find objects (cutting programming time by a whopping 90%), and “Inspect” for quality control using computer vision. They’re making it so easy that even a small baker can integrate robotics, not just the big players like NASA or Lockheed Martin.
Standard Bots is really targeting the vast majority of American manufacturers – the nearly 200,000 small businesses that currently don’t use robots. This accessibility could be a huge boost for American manufacturing, allowing companies to improve quality, delivery times, and overall price competitiveness. Evan Beard isn’t stopping there, though; he envisions a future where robots are as intuitive to use as your iPhone, pushing for a “ChatGPT moment” for the physical world.