“Over the last 9 years of building Ro, we’ve tried to break down the stigma of seeking out healthcare” Let’s go Z! I remember when you first started Ro and the mission was the same. I’m glad to see Megan get behind you to amplify this.

At the launch today. A beautifully designed event, and a government website that actually works like a product. Every manufacturer I know loses hours to federal paperwork. Making that easier is real industrial policy. Nice work @jgebbia and the @ndstudio team!

Honored to host @RepTomSuozzi and the head of U.S. Chamber of Commerce at Standard Bots for this award. One of the most inspiring moments I saw this year politically was @JohnFetterman and @SenMcCormickPA sharing the stage at the PA Defense Summit, working across the aisle to get things done. Congressman Suozzi brings that same mindset, and he's driving real innovation in his district.

"American companies need a fair playing field.” @evanbeard told @CNBC why the @FCC's ban on new Chinese robots—humanoids, quadrupeds, autonomous mobile robots—is a pivotal moment for U.S. robotics. The action is a forcing function for American manufacturers to build out our domestic robotics supply chain so U.S. industry is more competitive globally. We're ready. We already design nearly every major component ourselves, including our own actuators, and assemble every robot in-house. By 2027, we'll be metal in, robots out, manufacturing everything in America. Watch the full interview (at 37:40):

Today, the FCC banned the import and sale of new foreign-made advanced robots — humanoids, quadrupeds, and autonomous mobile robots — along with foreign-made connected power inverters, citing "unacceptable risks" to U.S. national security. This is one of the strongest technology-security actions in modern U.S. history. The message is unambiguous: robotics is a technology America must lead and own — and foreign-subsidized robots will not be allowed to unfairly dominate U.S. robotics as they did solar. As America's largest AI-native industrial robot manufacturer by units shipped, Standard Bots strongly supports this move. We have advocated for exactly this kind of action in recent sessions with the White House and in Congressional testimony. But there's unfinished business. Today's action expressly exempts fixed industrial robot arms — the exact machines being installed next to American workers on American factory floors, and the exact category foreign manufacturers are racing to dominate. The same logic applies to them: a robot arm is a networked, sensing, actuated system, and its inverters are where electricity and intelligence become motion. If you can't trust the components, you can't trust the robot. This combined with foreign market manipulation / subsidies does not provide for a fair playing field for US companies. This gap should be closed. Standard Bots designs and builds our own drives — the inverters that convert DC power into precise robotic motion — on our own circuit board line at our flagship facility in Glen Cove, NY. We design virtually all our own parts and assemble every final robot ourselves. We need to build American robots and put them to work in American factories. This transformative technology can revitalize our manufacturing base and create millions of new jobs. Today's action is a massive step. Closing the industrial-arm gap is the next one. Let's keep going. CORRECTION: we initially misread the inverter language as banning motor controllers in stationary robots too, but a CAN/EtherCAT connection would not count as connected (/wireless) so now believe that interpretation was wrong. Reposted with correction above.

Just spent the morning at the White House complex roundtable on America First industrial policy — machine tools, advanced manufacturing, and the industrial base everything else is built on. Kicked off by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and White House trade adviser Peter Navarro. I was there as the founder of an American robotics company - we were the only American-born, American-owned robotics company in the room. Here's what we're all trying to solve: 🧵

Best cold email I’ve received. Apparently when you raise your series C you get this. Though not sure if it was only up for the camera exposure time. Still points for @Nasdaq - thank you!!

Before humanoid robots are ready for homes, they need to pass the "Home Alone test," according to Standard Bots CEO @evanbeard. "We think maybe humanoids are right for the home. But then you have the safety issue. When it's going up the stairs, you need two five-year-olds to be able to jump on the back of it, pull it, or try to trip it. It's the Home Alone test." "You see RL robots and it looks so impressive. I think the average person thinks 'Oh yeah, robotics is solved.' But to beat the Home Alone test, RL is not quite there and it's hard to simulate all the things that an eight-year-old could do to it. So you can't even do the RL right now. It's an unsolved problem... I think it's going to be years away from being solved in the home."