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The worker that always shows up

We pick the best robot for your job from any maker, configure it to your task in California, and prove it on your site before final payment. A coworker for your floor, a companion for your home.

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Tested on your siteBefore final payment
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About

Coworkers. Companions. Built to order.

One team picks the machine, builds it, trains you, and stays on the hook. Shop floors and homes, worldwide.

We pick the right machine

The best robot for your job from any maker: humanoid, quadruped, or neither. Only developer-grade units we're allowed to program. When none of them pencil, we tell you that instead.

We make it work

Robots ship knowing how to move, not how to work. Our team writes the autonomy: perception, task logic, safety. We prove it on a mock-up of your task before you owe the next dollar.

We train your people

Your team learns to run it before we leave: starting and stopping the job, swapping batteries, reading the monthly reports, and when to call us. No robotics degree required.

We stay on the hook

Install, care plan, parts, and uptime. Fixed price, milestone payments, and support from the people who built it, not a call center.

Run your numbers

What a worker costs in your state

What a worker costs, next to every robot we build. Ballpark estimates. Your written quote fixes the real numbers.

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All figures are ballpark planning estimates, not quotes. Hardware prices move, and every build is custom. Your written quote fixes the real numbers. And when a column says "won't pencil," believe it: at your settings that robot costs more than the labor it saves, and we'd tell you the same thing in your build messenger.

Hourly labor cost used in this table-
Fully-loaded cost per worker / year-
Unitree B2-W units moving along an industrial road
Deployed like a crew, not a gadget Unitree B2-W · industrial site operations
Program timeline

From waitlist to working robot

Every step, nothing hidden. Signed order to install: 10–14 weeks.

NOW You are here

Waitlist open

Reserve your place. Free, no commitment, your spot sets your sequence for everything below.

STEP 02 · REQUIREMENTS → QUOTE

Requirements over messenger, then a written quote

A free 30-minute call to gather requirements, what the robot needs to do, how often, on what floor, with a straight "no" right there if it won't pencil. If it will, we review your site, on us, and firm everything into a written quote: one fixed price, fixed spec, fixed dates, and the best robot for the job, from any maker. Unitree, Boston Dynamics, or another maker: whichever platform wins for your task, the quote says so.

STEP 03 · QUOTE SIGNED · 40% DEPOSIT

You sign the quote, the deposit locks your slot

You sign the quote and pay the deposit, 40% of your fixed price, the same progress payment any custom equipment builder takes. The full schedule is 40 / 40 / 20: 40% now, 40% when your unit passes testing, and the final 20% only after it succeeds in a 30-day pilot on your floor. This first 40% has one job: it buys your hardware and puts our team on the plane to get it.

STEP 04 · ≈2 WEEKS

Hand-picked at the factory

Our team takes delivery in person, wherever your robot is built, Hangzhou for Unitree, Boston for Boston Dynamics, wherever the best machine for your job comes from. Your exact unit is inspected and burn-tested at the source before it's crated. You get photos and serials, not a tracking number from a broker.

STEP 05 · ≈1–5 WEEKS

Freight, customs & security check

We handle the freight and paperwork, and for imported builds, duties and tariffs are already in your fixed price, never a surprise line item. On arrival, every unit is wiped, firmware-audited, and network-isolated before it touches our shop floor, whoever made it.

STEP 06 · ≈4–6 WEEKS · 40% AT PASSED TEST

Built & customized in California

Straight talk: every robot ships knowing how to move, not how to work. Out of the box, whoever built it, it's a remote-control machine. This step is where our team writes your robot's job using the maker's developer toolkit (the SDK): how it sees, what it does, and when it stops for safety. When it leaves our shop it runs the task on its own, nobody standing there with a controller. It proves that by running cycles on a mock-up of your station until it hits the spec numbers, with progress video every week. The second 40% is due only when it passes those tests, before it ships, never before it works.

STEP 07 · ≈1 WEEK

Delivery & install

Crated, shipped, installed on your floor, and run alongside your team while we tune it to the real station. Nothing is due at delivery.

STEP 08 · 30 DAYS · FINAL 20%

Pilot, then your last payment

A 30-day pilot on your floor against success criteria we agreed on in the spec. Hit them and the final 20% is due then, and only then, converting to production at a known monthly cost with maintenance, parts, and uptime on us. Miss them and you're not stuck with it: you owe nothing further and we take the unit back.

Waitlist

Reserve a build slot

Straight with you: we're pre-launch, and this list is where it starts. We'll build in small numbers, for businesses and households, and every build starts with a requirements chat in your private build messenger. Founding customers get us at our hungriest. Joining costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

  • 1Waitlist members get first access as build slots open, in order, businesses and households alike.
  • 2It starts in your private build messenger: reserve and you get a status page with a direct chat to our team. We gather requirements there, photos welcome, walk your numbers, and tell you straight if it won't pencil.
  • 3Then you get a written quote: one fixed number, firmed up by an on-site review. The quote carries a $5,000 engineering fee, credited in full toward your build.
  • 4The 40% deposit is paid only when you sign that quote, and it goes straight to buying your hardware. Then we build.
  • 5Your info stays with us. No spam, one update when your slot is near.

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We work requirements in waitlist order, right in your build messenger. When a build slot opens for your industry, we'll reach out at to run your numbers first. A confirmation with your private status link is on its way to your inbox.