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Tensr manufactures robots and components for robotics companies at its automated Bay Area factory.

category

Robotics contract manufacturing

market profile

  • text: Robotics developers moving from prototypes into customer orders need manufacturing capacity across electronics, mechanical parts and assembly.
  • text: Tensr operates a 12,000 square foot Bay Area factory and describes an ambition to automate production using data from builds.

personas

  • title: VP of Manufacturing at a robotics company
    pains:
    • Turning a changing robot design into repeatable production
    • Coordinating electronics, mechanical fabrication and final assembly across suppliers
  • title: Robotics founder or hardware lead
    pains:
    • Fulfilling early orders without building a complete factory
    • Finding domestic production that can adapt as order volumes grow

icp

  • text: US robotics and humanoid developers with physical products entering pilot or production runs; account size is not specified.
  • text: Hardware teams needing Bay Area manufacturing across boards, parts and assembly, especially where domestic capacity matters.

message pillars

  • text: Build robots in a US factory.
  • text: Start with electronics production and move toward volume.
  • text: Consolidate mechanical fabrication needs.

objections

  • objection: Can a new factory handle our specifications and delivery schedule?
    response: Review the bill of materials, quality requirements and a first-article plan with the team before committing to volume.
  • objection: Will automation handle a changing design?
    response: Discuss design revision controls, cell setup and expected volumes directly; the website does not establish guarantees.

competitors

  • name: Bright Machines
    why: Adjacent alternative offering software-defined robotic assembly cells for hardware manufacturing, rather than the same contract manufacturing service.
  • name: Formic
    why: Adjacent alternative that provides managed factory automation for manufacturers.

keywords

  • robotics contract manufacturing
  • US robot manufacturing
  • humanoid robot production
  • robot assembly services
  • Bay Area electronics manufacturing
  • robot prototype to production

voice

  • ambitious and future-facing
  • technical and manufacturing-specific
  • direct

signals

  • text: A robotics company announces customer orders or a production ramp before building its own factory.
  • text: A hardware team is seeking US suppliers for board assembly, fabricated components and final assembly.

pricing

model: unknown

motion

sales_led

channels

  • LinkedIn
  • X
  • events
  • partnerships

confidence

medium

Founders

  • name: Eric Berndt
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: Robotic factories that build robots in the US. Prev Robotics researcher @ UC Berkeley where I raced autonomous Indy500 cars at 160mph
  • name: Adith Sundram
    title: Founder/CTO
    role: CTO
    bio: Founder @ Tensr. Robotics, ML and Controls @ UC Berkeley
  • name: C.K. Wolfe
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Founder, Tensr. CS PhD (AI, Robotics), UC Berkeley. Former Technical Program Manager, UC Berkeley robotics lab under Berkeley AI Research (BAIR). Secured $17M+ in DARPA and industry sponsorship across Stanford and UC Berkeley via AI Racing Tech (2024). Team Manager during top-ranked U.S. league season. Editor-in-Chief of UC Berkeley BAIR’s official AI research publication (BAIR Blog).

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