Standard Bots Raises $200M Series C at a $1B Valuation for American-Made, AI-Native Industrial Robots

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Standard Bots announced a $200M Series C led by RoboStrategy (with General Catalyst) at a $1B valuation on June 9, funding a New York manufacturing expansion for industrial robots taught by demonstration rather than code. Customers span Sunoco, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, NASA, and the U.S. Army down to SMB manufacturers, at a claimed 30% lower price than legacy makers, and the company projects 10% of new U.S. industrial robot deployments next year. It's a concrete data point on capital rotating from pure-software AI toward physical/embodied AI and reshoring.