ANSIOLABS / Case Studies

What we've done

Client and project work, kept apart from the public companies we study

Execution

Client & project work

Work our team took part in or delivered. Each case shows our role and whether it is cleared for disclosure

ChallengeStrategyExecutionResultsKey learnings

Research

Business Case Analysis

Public business practices of outside companies. These companies are not ANSIOLABS clients

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Client & project work

What we are working on now

Engagements underway or in planning. Results are not in yet, so these are not case studies. Names stay private until each partner says otherwise

Buyers & suppliers01

Chinese robotics manufacturers, and the teams sourcing hardware

The gap: Products ready for the U.S., with no buyers, distributors or local proof yet
Our move: Introductions to U.S. buyers and channel partners, and supplier matches for teams that need components

Distribution02

Robotics companies serving restaurants, supermarkets and commercial kitchens

The gap: Proven on the line and on the floor, but no U.S. distributors carrying them yet
Our move: Mapping the distributors and dealers that already sell into restaurants and grocery, and opening those doors one by one

Deployment03

A top-tier world model company

The gap: A frontier model that needs real-world deployments to prove itself
Our move: We find the sites and operators to build their flagship case studies, then carry those pilots into real deployment

Capital04

Robotics companies raising their next round

The gap: Generalist investors pass on hardware they cannot underwrite
Our move: Introductions to the industry and corporate VCs that invest in robotics, and a seat in the investor conversations at our events

Brand05

A Fortune 500 industrial technology group

The gap: A household name in industry, still new to the robotics conversation
Our move: A recurring event series at their own site that puts them in the room with robotics founders and buyers. Sales support follows

Ecosystem06

Robotics and AI unicorns valued at $1B+

The gap: They need builders using their platform, not just hearing about it
Our move: Flagship events, hackathons and recurring workshops that put their platform in developers’ hands

Data demand07

A robotics data provider with 10+ years of real-world data

The gap: Rare data, and frontier labs that are hard to reach
Our move: Direct introductions to labs that need training data, matched to what each lab is building

Talent08

A robotics company growing its engineering team

The gap: Robotics engineers are scarce and rarely on job boards
Our move: Technical candidates sourced from a community of people who build robots

Full case studies, written as challenge, strategy, execution, results and key learnings, are published once each client clears them

Ecosystem activations

Industry events we organize

The Deployment Moat, Embodied Collective event

Industry eventPublic event · hosted by Embodied Collective

Oct 29, 2026 · Mission Robotics, San Francisco

The Deployment Moat

Our role: the ANSIOLABS team co-founded Embodied Collective and organized this event, from theme and speakers to guest approval and partners

Challenge: Put the operators who deploy robots at scale in front of the founders and buyers deciding what to deploy next
Strategy: A deployment-only theme, speakers from the operator and investor side, and a guest list approved one by one
Execution: Speakers from Formic, Robot.com, Bosch Ventures, RLWRLD, Cybernetic Physics and Chestnut Robotics, opened by Robert Scoble
Results: 306registered187approved7speakers
Key learnings: Our read Operators who deploy at scale drew buyers into the room. A narrow theme kept the room vertical

Oct 6, 2026 · SF Tech WeekThe Data Layer of Physical AI

920 RSVPs · 480 approved · 382 waitlisted

Sep 23, 2026 · SoMa, San FranciscoPhysical AI Deployment in Business

180 approved guests · Waitlist demand above capacity

Industry events our team organizes as Embodied Collective. Approved RSVPs, not check-ins

Business Case Analysis

How other companies go to market

Public research on outside companies. We do not claim any of them as clients

HumanoidsQuadrupedsConsumer & developer

Unitree's U.S. business runs through a New York dealer that sells community, courses and compliance

Unitree shipped more than 5,500 humanoids in 2025, but in the U.S. the trust layer of community, training, repair and security review is built and owned by its distributor RoboStore.

PublishedBy SkylarNov 20268 public sources, linked

HumanoidsConsumer & developer

1X NEO's WSJ exclusive filled a $200 deposit list, and showed the world a teleoperated robot

1X used a tier-1 media exclusive to turn a $20,000 home humanoid into a viral launch and a deposit list, but the same coverage made teleoperation the story and left the company defending autonomy for a year.

PublishedBy SkylarNov 202611 public sources, linked

Consumer & developer

Reachy Mini sold $1 million in five days by shipping developers a robot with nothing to do

Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics priced a desktop robot like a gadget, let the community write its software, and reached about 10,000 units in ten months without a sales team or a chore to sell.

PublishedBy SkylarNov 202610 public sources, linked

Humanoids

Figure built a $39 billion humanoid company on one BMW body shop

Figure used one named plant, a famous cap table and an in-house model and factory to build demand before it had a price list, and its second customer shows the next test is commercial terms.

PublishedBy SkylarSep 202614 public sources, linked

HumanoidsWarehouse & logistics

Agility Robotics goes public with $1.8 million in revenue and $300 million in Digit orders

Agility picked one warehouse workflow, sold it as a monthly service through a logistics operator, and its SEC filing now shows both how far that motion has gone and how much of it is still ahead.

PublishedBy SkylarSep 202610 public sources, linked

Foundation & world models

NVIDIA sells no robots, and 110 robot makers build on its stack

NVIDIA has turned free models, a $3,499 developer kit and a crowded keynote stage into the default starting point for robot companies, while robotics remains a rounding error in its revenue.

PublishedBy SkylarSep 20268 public sources, linked

HumanoidsQuadrupedsWarehouse & logistics

From viral videos to 25,000 Atlas units: how Boston Dynamics turned fame into factory deployments

Boston Dynamics turned the most famous brand in robotics into three products by standardizing Spot for a channel, tying Stretch to one workflow and making its parent Hyundai the first big Atlas customer.

PublishedBy SkylarSep 202616 public sources, linked

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