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Updated October 2026
Standard Bots makes six-axis collaborative robot arms for factories and fabrication shops. Service Robot Co. is a different kind of company. We pick the right machine for your site, lease it on a 3-year lease with a $1 buyout, deploy it, train your crew and service it.
Who is Standard Bots?
Standard Bots describes its mission on its About page as building "the world’s most accessible robots." Source
Manufacturing Dive reports that CEO Evan Beard described a goal of a product simple enough that the maker can "just mail the box and the customer can take it out and install it." Source
Service Robot Co. is not affiliated with Standard Bots, and this page is not from Standard Bots.
What should you check before any cobot goes on your floor?
Outside sources, quoted and linked. Check each point on your own sites.
Manufacturing Dive, describing a panel talk by Standard Bots CEO Evan Beard, reports that at one customer “its IP rating had been breached multiple times”
In the same account, Beard said the cause was an "acidic compound" the customer used, which had eaten through the rubber-like seals. It describes one customer site, not every unit.
Where does it fit on your site?
Which jobs does the maker point to?
Standard Bots lists machine tending for CNC machines, welding, palletizing, assembly, finishing and inspection on its home page. Those are real shop jobs, and each one has its own fixturing, parts handling and safety needs. We start from the part, the cycle and your hours, then pick the arm and tooling that suit that job, which may or may not be this maker. Source
What does the arm not do for you?
An arm is one piece of a working cell. Fixtures, grippers, guarding, part presentation, machine signals and the safety risk assessment all sit around it. Standard Bots describes a goal of customers installing the robot themselves, as Manufacturing Dive reports. If your team has the engineering time, that can work. If not, deployment is where an integrator earns its place. Source
What should you check about your environment?
Coolants, cleaning chemicals, chips, dust and temperature all reach a robot differently. Manufacturing Dive reports a Standard Bots customer whose acidic compound reached the seals. We walk the cell, ask what touches the robot and pick for the conditions you really have, not the demo conditions. Source
What does your crew keep?
Your operators keep loading, quality checks and changeovers. We train them to start, stop and restart the cell, recover from a fault and adjust a program for a new part. After go-live we service the cell with three check visits a year, so the knowledge stays in your shop and the upkeep stays with us.
Why talk to an integrator first?
Going direct to one maker gets you that maker’s machine. Service Robot Co. starts from your site instead. We pick the right machine for it, lease it to you, deploy it, train your team and service it. One company owns the result.
Integrator, dealer or buying direct: how they compareHow does the lease work?
A 3-year lease with a $1 buyout at the end. You see the terms before you commit.
Assess
A free site assessment of the floors, routes and hours you want to cover. We look at the layout, the people and the work.
Lease
We pick the right machine for your site and quote a 3-year lease with a $1 buyout at the end.
Deploy and train
We map the site, set the routes and no-go areas and train your team to run the robot day to day.
Service
One number when something stops. Support, service engineers, check visits and a warranty are listed below.
What should you ask before you sign?
Ask these of Standard Bots, of us, or of anyone selling you a robot.
- Who does the safety risk assessment for my cell, and is it written down?
- What does the maker’s manual list as outside intended use, and does my process touch any of it?
- Who installs, programs and trains my crew, and how long does that take?
- Who answers when the cell stops at 2 a.m., and what is the response time?
- What software fees or updates continue after go-live?
- What happens to support if my process or parts change?
- What happens to my cell if the maker changes ownership or direction?
- Is a cobot arm the right machine for this job, or does it need a different robot?
RoboCare™
Service nationwide.
- 24/7 support.
- 10-minute technical-specialist triage.
- Regional service engineers in every state we service.
- 3 check visits a year.
- 12-month warranty.
Who should go direct to Standard Bots instead?
Going direct is the right call for some buyers. We would rather say so than take a lease that does not fit.
- You want to install and program the arm yourself, and your process rarely changes.
- You already have an engineer who will run the risk assessment and safety setup.
- You only want one maker as your contact and are happy to handle service yourself.
- If no robot fits your site yet, we will say so at the assessment.
Common questions
Start with a free site assessment.
Tell us the site and the job. We walk it, tell you which robot fits and quote the lease before you commit.
Find the robot that fits your site.
Free site assessment. We tell you what actually works before you spend a dollar.