I spent eight years on the export side of Chinese hardware — first motors, then robots — watching the same story repeat. An engineer in Munich or Boston finds a promising hand or quadruped, emails the factory, and gets silence, a machine-translated price list, or a trader quoting 40% over EXW with no factory name attached. Good hardware kept losing to bad buying experiences.
Sourcebotics is the desk I wished existed on the other side: honest specs with unverified numbers flagged, quotes in landed cost rather than teaser EXW, and warranty, RMA and spare-parts terms written into the proforma invoice before any money moves. We make modest promises and keep them in writing.