Bucket Robotics

Bucket Robotics builds Bucket Vision, an AI visual inspection system for manufacturing lines. Its distinguishing approach is that the customer's CAD file serves as the training data, so a station can be set up without first collecting large sets of labelled defect images, and the company says the system works with any camera and tolerates variable lighting, imperfect setups and changing parts. The product is aimed at manufacturers and quality teams in sectors such as automotive, electronics, appliances, packaging and aerospace. It covers surface defects including scratches, dents, cracks, pits, burrs, discolouration and contamination on metal, plastic, glass and coated parts; assembly verification for missing, wrong or misaligned parts and correct counts against the CAD; piece counting and OCR of lot codes, date stamps and part numbers on curved or reflective surfaces; reading barcodes, QR codes, DataMatrix and dot peen markings; and colour matching against a specification with tolerances. Every inspection is logged per unit with images, results, timestamps and station, and can be exported to MES or ERP systems for audits, recalls and yield trends. Dimensional and non visible inspection are listed as coming soon. Pricing is not published. Engagements begin with a time boxed pilot of eight to ten weeks on one station, using a real part in a real environment with acceptance criteria agreed in advance, and are arranged through a booked call. The site has no pricing page. The company describes a path of uploading CAD, reviewing the inspection system, validating on the line and then scaling across facilities, and it is backed by Y Combinator.