RoboZaps

Companies trying to buy robots, especially humanoids, face over 50 manufacturers with inconsistent pricing and no single place to compare specs, costs, lead times, and support terms. Most companies spend 3 to 6 months researching options on their own, relying on vendor pitches, sponsored placements, or free online rankings that carry no sources or availability checks. Since a July 2026 FCC Covered List change, foreign-produced advanced robots cannot receive new US equipment authorizations, so buyers who do not check per-model legality risk purchasing a robot they cannot legally deploy. The text frames the cost of getting this wrong plainly: an honest no costs $1,950, but a failed pilot costs far more.

RoboZaps runs a buyer-side sourcing service centered on the Robot Sourcing Brief, a fixed $1,950 deliverable produced in five business days. It starts with a structured intake and short call to capture the task, site constraints, and budget, then scores the catalog of 50+ tracked manufacturers and 44+ reviewed solutions against those requirements. The output is a scored shortlist of three platforms with every claim sourced, US regulatory status per model checked against the FCC's own register with grant references, and a budgetary deployment picture covering hardware, integration, freight, and support, followed by a 30-minute review call. The fee credits in full if the buyer procures through RoboZaps, and larger engagements are handled through a $9,500 Humanoid Sourcing Mandate where RoboZaps joins supplier calls. The company also publishes a free deployability report and a provenance-gated database of 176 published robots where unverifiable numbers are removed rather than guessed.

Since July 2026, the FCC's Covered List change means foreign-produced advanced robots cannot get new US equipment authorizations, making per-model legality checks a first-order purchasing question that RoboZaps says most buyers cannot verify themselves.