Your Robotics Partner in Mountain View
SVRC's main lab and headquarters at 1117 Independence Ave, Mountain View, CA 94043 — two miles from NASA Ames Research Center, in the heart of Silicon Valley's robotics corridor. Open Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 6 PM.
About This Location
The Mountain View facility is where SVRC builds, tests, leases, and repairs robots. This is not a showroom — it is a working robotics lab where teams come to get things done. The space spans multiple functional areas designed around the real workflows of robotics development and deployment.
Walk-in demo area with live robotic arms, humanoids, and quadrupeds. Visitors can operate robots hands-on — no appointment needed during business hours, though we recommend scheduling for dedicated time with specific platforms.
Dedicated stations for ALOHA-style bimanual teleoperation, VR-based single-arm control, and exoskeleton glove data capture. This is where we run multi-week data collection campaigns for clients building learned manipulation policies.
Full repair and assembly bench with soldering stations, Dynamixel servo tools, 3D printers, and diagnostic equipment. We handle motor replacements, cable rerouting, gripper swaps, and sensor calibration in-house.
Conference room with whiteboard and projector for pilot scoping sessions, integration planning, and team working sessions. Teams regularly use this space for multi-day on-site engagements before deploying robots to their own facilities.
Why Mountain View?
Mountain View sits at the geographic and institutional center of the world's densest robotics ecosystem. SVRC chose this location deliberately because of the concentration of robotics talent, research institutions, and industry within a short drive.
NASA Ames Research Center is less than two miles from our door — its Intelligent Robotics Group has been developing autonomous systems since the 1990s, and Ames alumni are now spread across dozens of Bay Area robotics startups. Google's main campus is a 10-minute bike ride away, and their DeepMind robotics team in Mountain View is one of the largest manipulation research groups in industry. Apple's autonomous systems division operates nearby in Sunnyvale.
Stanford University is 10 miles south in Palo Alto. The Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) and Stanford Robotics Lab produce a significant share of the PhD researchers who go on to found or lead Bay Area robotics companies. UC Berkeley's BAIR Lab is 25 miles north across the Bay — the two universities together form the academic backbone of the region's robotics talent pipeline.
Mountain View also sits on the Caltrain corridor, making it accessible from San Francisco to the north and San Jose to the south. Highway 101 runs directly past the city, and the VTA light rail connects to the broader South Bay transit network. For teams coming from across the peninsula, Mountain View is the geographic sweet spot — close enough to everywhere that matters, without the cost and congestion of San Francisco.
What You Can Do at SVRC Mountain View
Try Robots Hands-On
Operate robotic arms, humanoids, and quadrupeds on our demo floor. We keep OpenArm 101, UR5e cobots, Unitree G1 humanoids, and Unitree Go2 quadrupeds powered and ready for walk-in evaluation. This is the fastest way to determine whether a specific platform fits your use case before committing to a lease or purchase.
Get a Pilot Program Scoped
Sit down with our team to define scope, timeline, hardware requirements, and success criteria for a robotics pilot at your facility. We walk through task decomposition, data collection strategy, and integration requirements in a structured 2-hour scoping session. Most teams leave with a concrete proposal within a week.
Set Up a Data Collection Campaign
Our teleoperation lab is designed for multi-week data collection runs. Bring your task specification and we handle operator scheduling, camera setup, episode annotation, and HDF5 dataset packaging. Campaigns typically produce 500 to 5,000 demonstration episodes depending on task complexity and duration.
Hardware Pickup and Demo
Lease customers can pick up robots same-day from our Mountain View lab. We power up the platform, walk through the setup documentation, verify all components, and hand off. For teams that prefer delivery, we offer same-day courier within the South Bay and next-day across the greater Bay Area.
Mountain View and Bay Area Robotics Ecosystem
Mountain View is surrounded by the highest concentration of robotics research and industry on the planet. Here are the institutions and companies that define the local ecosystem — and that bring teams to SVRC regularly.
Research Institutions
2 miles away. Space robotics, autonomous surface exploration, human-robot interaction research. The IRG has built robots for Mars missions and develops teleoperation interfaces used on the ISS.
10 miles south in Palo Alto. One of the world's leading AI research labs. Their robotics group works on manipulation, mobile robots, and learning from demonstration — areas directly relevant to SVRC's data collection services.
25 miles north in Berkeley. The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research lab is a powerhouse in robot learning, dexterous manipulation, and sim-to-real transfer. Many of the learned manipulation techniques used in industry today originated at BAIR.
Industry Neighbors
Mountain View. One of the largest industrial manipulation research teams, working on foundation models for robotics (RT-2, RT-X). Their work drives demand for large-scale teleoperation data — exactly what SVRC produces.
Los Altos, 5 miles south. TRI's robotics division focuses on home manipulation and autonomous driving. They are one of the most active corporate robotics research groups in the South Bay.
Mountain View headquarters. While focused on autonomous vehicles, Waymo employs hundreds of robotics and perception engineers and contributes to the local talent ecosystem.
Foster City, 15 miles north. Autonomous vehicle startup acquired by Amazon, with a large Bay Area engineering team working on sensor fusion, planning, and vehicle-scale robotics.
The Bay Area Robotics Meetup, Silicon Valley ROS Users Group, and IEEE RAS Bay Area Chapter all hold regular events in Mountain View, Sunnyvale, and Palo Alto. SVRC hosts and sponsors several of these gatherings.
Services Available at Mountain View
Every service SVRC offers is available from our Mountain View headquarters. Because this is our main facility, turnaround times are fastest here and the full hardware catalog is in stock.
Robot Leasing
Monthly, quarterly, and annual leases on robotic arms (OpenArm 101, UR3e, UR5e), humanoids (Unitree G1), quadrupeds (Unitree Go2), and complete teleoperation rigs. Same-day pickup from our Mountain View lab or delivery within the Bay Area. Lease-to-own available on annual contracts.
Teleoperation Data Collection
End-to-end data collection campaigns using ALOHA bimanual rigs, VR teleoperation, or exoskeleton gloves. We provide trained operators, camera setup, episode QA, annotation, and delivery in HDF5 or LeRobot format. Campaigns run from our lab or on-site at your facility.
Pilot Programs
Structured 4-to-12-week pilot programs to validate a robotics use case at your facility. We handle hardware selection, deployment planning, operator training, data capture, and reporting. Designed for enterprise teams evaluating robotic automation before scaling.
Repair and Maintenance
In-house repair for Dynamixel-based arms, UR cobots, Unitree platforms, and custom teleoperation hardware. Motor replacement, cable repair, sensor recalibration, firmware updates. Drop off at the lab or ship to us — most repairs completed within 3-5 business days.
Events and Demos
We host quarterly demo days, robotics meetups, and private demo sessions for teams evaluating hardware. Our Mountain View lab can accommodate groups of up to 20 people for workshops and demonstrations. Check our events page for upcoming sessions.
Visit Us
Address
Silicon Valley Robotics Center
1117 Independence Ave
Mountain View, CA 94043
Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Email: contact@roboticscenter.ai
Directions
From Highway 101: Exit at Moffett Blvd / NASA Parkway. Head west on Moffett Blvd, turn right on Independence Ave. The lab is on the right, approximately 0.5 miles from the freeway exit.
By Caltrain: Take Caltrain to Mountain View station. From the station, it is approximately 2 miles to our lab — a 7-minute drive or 10-minute bike ride via Shoreline Blvd. VTA bus route 51 also connects the station to the Moffett Field area.
By VTA Light Rail: The Middlefield station on the Orange Line is approximately 1.5 miles from our lab.
Parking: Free parking available on-site and along Independence Ave. No permit required during business hours.