Profitable Robotics Kits Supplier – 1.2K+ Customers, 55% Gross Margins
Business Description
Established, profitable e-commerce supplier of curated open-source robotics kits, replacement parts, and technical setup support. The business is the only US-based vendor on the approved hardware list of the leading open-source robotics framework, the de facto platform of the embodied AI research community. It serves 120+ universities and research labs (including Ivy League institutions), Fortune 500 technology companies, and a broad base of independent technical builders. 1,269 customers to date with no single customer over 20% of revenue.
Financial highlights:
- $412K total income
- $200K net income (TTM through March 2026)
- ~55% blended gross margin
- ~$300 average order value
- 2.9% website conversion rate
- Defect and return rate under 1%
All growth has been organic, with $0 spent on paid marketing since inception. No debt, no liens, no legal matters, and clean transaction records via Shopify and Mercury.
Operations are lean and transferable:
- Shopify storefront
- Leased warehouse with 12 in-house 3D printers (minimal physical footprint, easily relocatable)
- One contractor handling assembly and packaging
- Documented SOPs covering assembly, fulfillment, QA, and customer support
Every kit is calibrated and tested before shipping, and domestic fulfillment in under a week is a structural advantage over overseas suppliers with 2-3 week lead times.
The owner currently runs the business in 25-30 hours per week alongside a separate full-time role, leaving clear headroom for a dedicated operator.
Well-defined growth levers include a newly launched robotics training-data service in collaboration with an established data partner (nascent recurring revenue), SKU expansion through established ODM partners (3 robot models today, room for 9+), first-dollar paid marketing into a proven 2.9% conversion rate, dedicated institutional sales into existing university relationships, and pricing latitude (products are priced 10-15x below comparable research-grade hardware).
The sale includes the brand, domain, ~1,200-contact customer database, equipment, supplier relationships, SOPs, and ongoing institutional accounts. Inventory (~$25K at cost) is not included in the asking price and transfers separately at closing at then-current cost.
Seller is exiting to focus on a separate, non-competing venture and is open to a negotiated post-close transition.
The asking price of $600K USD represents a suggested minimum bid, however, the business is offered on an open-bid basis.
The business is offered confidentially through Livmo M&A Advisory. Data Room including full financials are available to qualified buyers following execution of an NDA.
Financial highlights:
- $412K total income
- $200K net income (TTM through March 2026)
- ~55% blended gross margin
- ~$300 average order value
- 2.9% website conversion rate
- Defect and return rate under 1%
All growth has been organic, with $0 spent on paid marketing since inception. No debt, no liens, no legal matters, and clean transaction records via Shopify and Mercury.
Operations are lean and transferable:
- Shopify storefront
- Leased warehouse with 12 in-house 3D printers (minimal physical footprint, easily relocatable)
- One contractor handling assembly and packaging
- Documented SOPs covering assembly, fulfillment, QA, and customer support
Every kit is calibrated and tested before shipping, and domestic fulfillment in under a week is a structural advantage over overseas suppliers with 2-3 week lead times.
The owner currently runs the business in 25-30 hours per week alongside a separate full-time role, leaving clear headroom for a dedicated operator.
Well-defined growth levers include a newly launched robotics training-data service in collaboration with an established data partner (nascent recurring revenue), SKU expansion through established ODM partners (3 robot models today, room for 9+), first-dollar paid marketing into a proven 2.9% conversion rate, dedicated institutional sales into existing university relationships, and pricing latitude (products are priced 10-15x below comparable research-grade hardware).
The sale includes the brand, domain, ~1,200-contact customer database, equipment, supplier relationships, SOPs, and ongoing institutional accounts. Inventory (~$25K at cost) is not included in the asking price and transfers separately at closing at then-current cost.
Seller is exiting to focus on a separate, non-competing venture and is open to a negotiated post-close transition.
The asking price of $600K USD represents a suggested minimum bid, however, the business is offered on an open-bid basis.
The business is offered confidentially through Livmo M&A Advisory. Data Room including full financials are available to qualified buyers following execution of an NDA.
About the Business
- Years in Operation
- 3
- Employees
- 1 Contractor
Owner-run; 1 contractor for fulfillment; SOPs documented - Currently Relocatable
- Yes
- Facilities & Assets
- FF&E of ~$6,400 conveys with the sale: 12 owned 3D printers, shelving and desks, computers, studio equipment, and assembly tools. Commerce runs on a Shopify storefront with Shopify Payments, Stripe, and PayPal; clean transaction records via Shopify and Mercury banking. The sale includes the brand, domain, ~1,200-contact customer email database, customer-facing documentation site, video content channel, documented SOPs, supplier relationships, and ongoing institutional accounts. Inventory (~$25K at cost) transfers separately at closing at then-current cost.
- Market Outlook / Competition
- This business is positioned at the structural funnel point for U.S. buyers within this market — with proven demand, clean unit economics, and untapped growth levers. The infrastructure is in place; the opportunity is to scale it.
Embodied AI — robots trained on real-world data through reinforcement and imitation learning — has become one of the fastest-growing areas of AI research, and it runs on physical hardware.
Open-source robotics has moved decisively out of the hobbyist niche and into mainstream academic, corporate, and AI-research adoption. Universities are adding robotics coursework at scale; corporate engineering teams are running internal pilot programs; and individual technical builders are entering the category at an unprecedented rate. Alongside hardware, demand for real-world robotics training data is emerging as a critical input to embodied AI model development — a layer the Company has already begun to enter. - Opportunities for Growth
- - Activate paid acquisition: zero paid marketing spend to date against a proven 2.9% conversion funnel.
- First-dollar customer acquisition cost spend through Google search, LinkedIn, and YouTube channels expected to be highly efficient.
- SKU expansion: ongoing conversations with a Chinese ODM partner to expand the product catalog with comparatively low capital expenditure. ~80% of current customers are first-time buyers — each new SKU effectively reopens the funnel for the existing base.
- Institutional sales scale-up: direct purchasing relationships with 120+ universities and major corporate buyers represent unactivated repeat-purchase volume. A dedicated sales effort into the existing account base could expand revenue materially before any new customer acquisition.
- Pricing remains substantially below comparable research-grade hardware. Further pricing latitude exists, such as adding stronger actuators to preexisting products and charging a premium for upgraded configurations.
About the Sale
- Seller Motivation
- Owner is now focusing full-time on a separate, non-competing venture
- Transition Support
- Seller is open to a negotiated post-close transition, with scope and duration set at the LOI stage. Operations are supported by documented internal SOPs covering assembly, fulfillment, QA, customer support, setup guidance, and troubleshooting workflows, plus an extensive customer-facing documentation library (assembly guides, calibration instructions, parts lists) and published video walkthroughs. The substantial majority of operational knowledge is documented.
- Financing Options
- No seller financing. The asking price of $600K USD represents a suggested minimum bid
Listing Info
- ID
- 2531893
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