Build Your Physical AI Product Faster
Hardware is hard, data is harder. SVRC gives AI startups everything they need to skip the setup overhead and start training — hardware on lease, data collection as a service, and platform infrastructure included.
The Problem
Most Robotics AI Startups Waste 6 Months on Setup
The founders who build fast physical AI products are not smarter — they just do not waste time on commodity infrastructure. Here is the trap most teams fall into.
Hardware procurement and delivery delays
Industrial robots have 8–20 week lead times. Importing hardware for international teams adds customs delays, duties, and integration surprises. You have a product to build and you are waiting on a FedEx shipment.
Setting up a teleoperation and data collection pipeline
Before you can collect a single training episode, you need to build the ROS stack, calibrate cameras, configure a data recording format, and train operators. This is weeks of engineering for problems that have already been solved.
Collecting enough demonstrations to actually train on
Imitation learning requires hundreds to thousands of clean episodes. Without trained operators and systematic collection protocols, data quality is inconsistent and training runs fail for reasons that are hard to debug.
Iteration is slow because infrastructure is still breaking
By now you are finally training policies — but your data pipeline is fragile, annotation is manual, and every hardware change requires recalibration. Competitors who solved this problem earlier are already shipping demos.
How SVRC Helps
Three Things We Do That You Should Not Build
Fast Hardware Access
Lease today, deploy tomorrow. SVRC ships from Palo Alto stock with no lead times. OpenArm, W1 mobile manipulator, Go2 quadruped, and humanoid platforms are available on monthly lease terms starting at $450/mo.
Hardware arrives configured and tested. Most teams are collecting data within 24 hours of delivery. Swap platforms as your requirements evolve — no capital commitment, no sunk cost.
Proprietary Data Collection
Your task, your data, your model. SVRC's trained teleoperation operators collect demonstration data on your specific manipulation tasks in your actual environment — or remotely via depth camera streams.
Episodes are recorded in LeRobot-compatible format and immediately available for training. You own the data. SVRC provides the infrastructure, operators, and quality annotation pipeline.
Platform Infrastructure
Stop maintaining data pipelines and start training policies. SVRC's platform handles episode logging, multi-camera sync, annotation tooling, and dataset export — in a browser, not a bash script.
Push directly to HuggingFace. Export to LeRobot, RLDS, or raw HDF5. Monitor policy performance in production. The infrastructure scales with your team so you do not need to rebuild it at each stage.
Pricing
Transparent, Modular Pricing
Pay only for what you need. Start with hardware, add data collection when you are ready to scale episodes, and use the platform throughout. No hidden implementation fees.
| Component | Starting Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| OpenArm hardware lease | $450/mo | 1-month minimum, includes basic setup docs. Ships from Palo Alto stock. |
| W1 Mobile Manipulator lease | $1,200/mo | Includes teleoperation interface and SVRC platform access. |
| Go2 Quadruped lease | $800/mo | Includes depth camera payload and autonomous navigation stack. |
| Data collection — operator time | Custom | SVRC teleop operators bill per session or per episode volume. Contact for rates. |
| SVRC Data Platform access | Included | Included with any active hardware lease. Episode logging, annotation, export. |
| Custom policy training support | Custom | SVRC ML engineers available for policy training, debugging, and deployment. |
Lease-to-own available on all hardware after 3 months of lease payments. Multi-platform discounts available for teams leasing 3 or more units. Pre-seed and seed-stage startups: ask about our founder pricing program.
What You Can Build
From First Demo to Deployed Product
SVRC has worked with physical AI teams at every stage — from pre-seed founders building their first imitation learning demo to Series A companies shipping manipulation products to enterprise customers.
Imitation Learning Demo
Collect 50–200 teleoperation episodes on a manipulation task, train an ACT or Diffusion Policy baseline, and have a working demo ready for investors or pilot customers.
4–8 weeksCustom VLA Fine-Tune
Collect task-specific data in your target environment and fine-tune a vision-language-action model (OpenVLA, pi0, or your own) on proprietary episodes. SVRC exports in the right format for every major training framework.
6–12 weeksRobotics Product MVP
Deploy a robot with a trained manipulation policy to a pilot customer's site. SVRC provides the hardware, policy monitoring via the data platform, and on-call operator support during the initial rollout.
3–6 monthsProprietary Dataset
Build a defensible data asset for your specific manipulation domain — dexterous grasping, household tasks, industrial assembly. SVRC operators scale your data collection while you focus on model architecture.
OngoingBook a Technical Deep Dive
A 45-minute call with SVRC's ML and hardware team. We will review your product roadmap, identify the fastest path to your first trained policy, and scope a hardware and data package that fits your stage.