In 2005, Robert & Lynnette Stokes founded Stokes Educational Services (SES) based in their hometown, Carl Junction, MO. SES became a distributor and secondary developer for an educational robotics company, Aldebaran, in 2010. Over the next several years SES developed many applications outside of education for Aldebaran’s NAO humanoid robot. Since then, the company has expanded and divided into two divisions Stokes Education & Stokes Robotics. Stokes Education focuses on STEM education and Stokes Robotics focuses on robotic solutions for customers in multiple industries.
Stokes Robotics provides robotic packages for law enforcement, agriculture, manufacturing, and other industries. Stokes Robotics also offers custom secondary development to meet specific customer needs. The focus of Stokes Robotics is to provide solutions that protect people, save money, and solve problems. Working with Stokes Education, Stokes Robotics provides curriculum materials and security packages for schools.
Our company principles were shaped by the values Robert and Lynnette developed growing up in small towns with populations of around 300 in Oklahoma and Missouri, respectively. Robert’s father worked for decades in industrial maintenance and Lynnette’s parents ran a grocery store and a dairy equipment supply business. The small town values, work ethic, and focus on customer services they learned from their parents are core values of Stokes Robotics. Even with a sales team that covers all 50 states, we work hard to keep a personal relationship with all our customers in order to ensure we meet their unique needs, whether the customer is 20 miles away or 2,000 miles away.
