We are set up to
import machines and
stand behind them.
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 working floor
in Manhattan, planned.
We are based in New York City. A Manhattan showroom and technical floor is planned, where platforms will be commissioned, tested and demonstrated before they go out. It is on the plan because nobody should commit six figures to a machine they have only seen in a manufacturer's marketing video.
Based in New York. A Manhattan demonstration floor is planned and not yet leased or open. Logistics and field-service partners are being appointed, and we will name them here once they are under agreement rather than before.
Until the floor opens, we will arrange demonstrations by appointment at your site, or on a manufacturer's floor if they agree to host one. We have not run a session yet, so ask early and we will tell you plainly what we can put in front of you and when. Bring your actual payload. The point is to find the failure modes early, while they are still our problem instead of yours.
Request a session→- Based in Michigan, from Long Island, New York
- In Guangzhou part of every year, on the factory floor with the manufacturers
- Selling online since 2018, mostly live
- Founder of Source Launch Fulfill, the entity that contracts here
I am not a roboticist.
I am an importer.
I started Bonded Robotics because the most common question in this market has no honest public answer. Buyers ask whether a machine can be imported and sold in the United States, and what comes back is either a sales pitch or the word banned. Both are usually wrong.
I have spent years buying from Chinese factories for my other companies, and I spend part of every year in Guangzhou doing it in person, on the floor, with the people who actually build the product. Sourcing, freight, customs and the paperwork underneath all of it is the part of this business most robot sellers hand to somebody else and then cannot answer questions about.
The rules here changed twice in under a year and most of the industry has not updated a sentence of its marketing since. So this site is built around the record rather than the pitch: what the FCC actually said, which platforms hold a grant and which do not, what we loaded from the database ourselves and what we are only repeating from somebody else. Where we do not know, it says we do not know. That is not modesty, it is the product.
Every platform we quote will come with its FCC status on the paperwork, a landed price that names duty and freight separately, and one named person in the United States who answers his own email after the crate arrives. We have not issued a quote yet. That is the whole business, and we are at the beginning of it rather than the middle. Judge the first quote you get from us on whether the numbers hold up.
Four rules.
Quote the whole number
Unit, freight, duty, tariff, brokerage, commissioning. A price that hides the landed cost is not a price, it is an opening position.
Say the lead time out loud
Ocean freight is slow. Build slots are real. We would rather lose the order than win it on a date we cannot hold.
Sell the right tool
Legged robots are extraordinary at a narrow set of jobs and mediocre at many others. If a conveyor solves it, we will say so.
Own it after the invoice
A named technician for every unit, spares held in the United States, warranty administered here, and coverage arranged before the machine ships. No unit has shipped yet. That is the standard the first one goes out on.
Where we are in the build
We are early and we are not going to pretend otherwise. We hold no manufacturer agreement yet, so the platform designations shown across this site are internal placeholders until one is signed. We have not sold, imported or delivered a unit. No deposit will be taken before a specification is confirmed in writing against a named manufacturer.