RoboStore Plans 66,000-Square-Foot US Robot Plant as Crackdown Hits Foreign-Made Machines
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Updated · Ars Technica · Aug 20
RoboStore Plans 66,000-Square-Foot US Robot Plant as Crackdown Hits Foreign-Made Machines
1 articles · Updated · Ars Technica · Aug 20
Summary
August 10 marked RoboStore’s shift from importing Chinese robots to building commercial robots in a 66,000-square-foot Long Island facility targeted to fully open by fiscal Q1 2027.
The move follows a widening US crackdown on foreign-made robots, which undercut the distributor model that had made RoboStore a key North American seller of Unitree humanoid and quadruped machines.
RoboStore also launched Robo Inc. to run manufacturing and systems integration, drawing on deployment work with more than 1,500 robots for customers including Cisco, OpenAI, Nvidia and over 150 universities.
Haggerty said that customer demand increasingly favored robots tailored to specific industrial tasks, arguing many businesses are better served by specialized systems such as robotic arms than by general-purpose humanoids.