Standard Bots customers who build vision systems in Roboflow can run them on their robots, uniting two of the leaders in physical AI behind a single, seamless journey from what a robot sees to what it does.
CHICAGO, June 24, 2026 — Roboflow and Standard Bots are announcing a partnership to enable robots to see, understand, and act with visual intelligence. Standard Bots customers who train vision models in Roboflow can now deploy those models to their robot to spot a defect, recognize a specific part, count items, read a label, or watch a zone, without needing an engineer to transfer files or configure the robot.
Bringing visual intelligence to industrial robots allows them to learn new vision skills the same way you'd teach anyone on a factory floor: hold up a part, give it a few examples, and it learns to recognize it. From then on, the robot sees, decides, and acts on its own. The robot that used to execute one motion can now adapt to inspect for defects, sort good from bad, guide its own picking and palletizing, and adapt to the world in front of it.
The two companies unveiled the partnership this week at Automate 2026, the largest automation event in North America. Visit the Roboflow booth (#21015) or Standard Bots booth (#736) to see live demonstrations of industrial robots running custom vision models to see, decide, and act in real time.
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Vision and motion have always been the two halves of a robot that can do real work. This partnership delivers that connection as a seamless product experience for manufacturers of all sizes. For manufacturers who train their own vision models in Roboflow, deploying them to a robot has historically required engineer time, SSH access, and manual file transfers. This integration removes that barrier by bringing Roboflow-trained models into the robot's skill library with the same ease as any other task.
When custom model deployment is this simple, a manufacturer can get a new product online in weeks instead of quarters. Robots bought for one task can be taught a second, and a third, because adapting it is now a matter of showing it something new, rather than rebuilding it. Robots that can learn from visual data change the economics of automation with faster payback, and a machine that is worth more the longer it runs.
"Standard Bots makes robots that anyone can teach. We make it easy for machines to see and understand the world," said Joseph Nelson, co-founder and CEO of Roboflow. "Put those together and you get something the factory floor has been waiting for: a robot you can point at a problem and trust to handle it. Every camera and every robot in a facility becomes programmable, by the people who actually run the line."
"Our mission is to put a capable robot to work in every American factory, and the robots that win are the ones that are easy to use," said Evan Beard, CEO of Standard Bots. "Our robots are built to be taught, not just programmed. For manufacturers who use Roboflow for annotation and training, this integration means going from a trained model to a deployed robot skill in minutes -- and sending data back to keep improving. That's the kind of seamless workflow that changes what's possible on the factory floor."
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About Roboflow
Roboflow gives organizations the platform to build visual intelligence that understands and acts in the physical world. The Roboflow platform spans labeling, training, deployment, and applications, and is used by more than one million engineers and over half of the Fortune 100 across manufacturing, logistics, rail, defense, healthcare, retail, and sport. Learn more at roboflow.com.
About Standard Bots
Standard Bots is America's largest AI-native industrial robot manufacturer, designing and assembling its six-axis robots in Glen Cove, New York. Built to be more affordable and easier to use than legacy systems, Standard Bots robots are trusted by Fortune 500s and independent shops alike to automate machine tending, palletizing, welding, inspection, and more. Learn more at standardbots.com.
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