Built there.
Bonded here.
We check every robotic and uncrewed platform against the record that decides whether it can lawfully enter the United States. Sourcing direct, import, commissioning and service here is what we are built to do. No unit has shipped yet.
A robot on the Covered List can no longer be newly authorized for the U.S. market.
The FCC added foreign-produced advanced robotic devices to its Covered List. A device has to meet every element of that definition before it is covered, and once it is, no new authorization can issue. Platforms authorized before that date keep their grants and stay sellable. Which side of the line a machine sits on is now the most important thing about it, and almost nobody in this market is telling you.
Four ways to
move a machine.
From a desktop companion to a full humanoid, and into the air. The rules change at every tier, so the tier you buy from decides what paperwork comes with it.
What we would
quote first.
The ground
decides everything.
Stairs, gravel, rubble, a wet loading dock. The surfaces that decide whether a legged robot is useful or an expensive ornament, and the ones to ask about before you buy. These three clips are concept renders we generated, not footage of any machine we have operated.
Unimproved terrain
Poured slab, rebar, loose aggregate. No rails, no markers, no floor tape.
Manipulation
Five-finger articulation under load. The specification a manipulation claim has to be checked against.
Public-facing
Machines that have to be legible to people who did not ask for a robot.
From a factory
floor to yours.
These machines are heavy, battery-dense and customs-controlled. Anyone promising two-day delivery on a 60 kg lithium platform is not being straight with you. Here is the actual path.
Specification
We scope the job first: payload, terrain, duty cycle, integration surface. Then we match platforms against it. If a robot is the wrong tool for what you described, we will say so and lose the sale.
Factory quote
Priced direct with the manufacturer rather than through a layered import chain. No manufacturer agreement is signed yet, so an early quote will name the route it actually came through, distributor included. Unit cost, freight, duty and tariff itemized separately so you can see exactly what you are paying for and check the duty line yourself.
Import and customs
Ocean or air freight depending on battery class and urgency, cleared by a licensed customs broker, to be appointed. Lithium packs move under UN 38.3 documentation, which is often what decides the schedule.
Commissioning
No unit has reached us yet and there is no commissioning bay standing. The commitment is that every unit is unpacked, powered, calibrated and function-tested before it reaches your floor, by us or by a named contracted technician we tell you about first. Nothing goes blind from a factory to your door with our name on the paperwork.
The future is here.
It has scuff marks.
Charging bays, snow, night shifts, wet docks. The conditions worth asking a manufacturer about before you buy. Every image in this band is a concept render we generated, not a photograph of a machine we have operated.
Three rules,
constantly confused.
Almost every mistake in robot and drone buying comes from treating these as one rule. They answer different questions, they bind different people, and only one of them can make a seller a lawbreaker.
Can it be sold at all
FCC equipment authorization. Anything that emits radio needs a grant before it can be imported or marketed in the United States, to anyone, for any purpose. A covered device cannot receive a new grant. Devices that already held one keep it. This is the only rule on the page that turns a seller into a lawbreaker, and it is the one we check first on every unit.
The Covered List, in full→Who is allowed to buy it
Procurement law: the NDAA, the American Security Drone Act, the Department of War 1260H list, and a growing patchwork of state statutes. These govern who may spend public money on a platform, not whether the platform is legal. A private buyer in Florida may lawfully own a Chinese drone. The Florida sheriff's office may not buy one. Confusing the two loses deals in both directions.
Every platform, mapped→What it costs to land
Section 232 tariffs, duty classification, freight mode, and UN 38.3 documentation on the lithium packs. None of this affects legality and all of it affects the invoice. A quote that names only the unit price is not a quote. The number that matters is landed, and it moves enough that publishing it would be dishonest.
How we import→The word to distrust is banned. A platform that a police department cannot buy with grant money is not banned, and a platform with no US grant record is not merely restricted, it cannot lawfully be imported at all. Those two situations look identical in a headline and are nothing alike on an invoice. When we tell you a machine cannot ship, we name which of the three rules stops it and we link the record so you can check us.
Legged robots
fall over.
Plan for it.
Liability, physical damage, transit and extended service. Four separate things, regulated four separate ways. We are not an insurer and hold no producer licence, so the page says what each line is for and exactly how far along we are.
How coverage works→Third-party liability
Injury or property damage the robot causes
Physical damage
Falls, collisions, crush, water, theft
Transit & marine cargo
Factory floor to your dock, ocean leg included
Extended service plan
Parts and labour past the manufacturer term
Watch it walk
before you wire
the deposit.
A Manhattan demonstration floor is planned. It is not leased and not open, and the image behind this text is a concept render of it. Until there is a floor, tell us what you need to see and we will work out where you can see it, which may mean the manufacturer's own site. Put weight in the arms, drive it up stairs, and find the failure modes before they are your problem.
Ask about a demonstration→Tell us the job.
We'll price the machine.
Quotes are itemized and landed: unit, freight, duty, tariff, commissioning. A person replies within one business day, and we aim to have the landed quote with you inside two.
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