The smallest US customer of Brooks's company that uses industrial robots is a nine-person company in Tennessee.

Judge as of 16 December 2014, for Brooks's company Rethink Robotics. True: company records, case studies or press coverage show that its smallest US customer using its industrial robots (Baxter) at that time was a Tennessee company with nine employees. Mostly true: the smallest customer was a Tennessee firm of about that size (8–10 employees), or the detail is right apart from a minor discrepancy in headcount. Mixed: a nine-person Tennessee customer existed, but evidence shows a US customer that was clearly smaller. Mostly false: the smallest customer was in a different state or was substantially larger. False: there was no such Tennessee customer.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Wood Component Manufacturer Lays the Groundwork for Growth with Collaborative Robotics PR Newswire (Rethink Robotics press release) · 16 December 2014 Own record

   “Headquartered in Ohio, Walnut Creek Planing's products are used throughout the U.S. in the construction of stairs, doors and furniture.”

2. E2 Meet Baxter, your new robotic co-worker The Christian Science Monitor · 27 September 2014

   “But Baxter isn’t really like the other industrial robots at this factory in Southington, Conn., either.”

3. E3 Sheet Metal Manufacturer Uses Baxter as a Workforce Multiplier in Machine Tending PR Newswire (Rethink Robotics press release) · 2 October 2014 Own record

   “Based in Lethbridge, Alberta, Tradesman Manufacturing has been a leader in the HVAC industry since 1986,”

4. E4 Ceramics Manufacturer 'Fires Up' its Production Line with Rethink Robotics' Baxter PRNewswire (issued under SOURCE Rethink Robotics) · 18 November 2014 Own record

   “Headquartered in Saxonburg, PA, Du-Co employs more than 250 employees at two separate manufacturing facilities in the United States.”

5. E5 No Cage Required Modern Machine Shop (Industrial Automation supplement, reprinted on MFG Connected) · 29 July 2014

   “The company says it now has several hundred units in customer sites, about half of which work in manufacturing applications.”

None of the evidence mentions a Rethink Robotics customer in Tennessee or a nine-person customer company. The items cover other Baxter customers: an Ohio wood component maker (E1), a factory in Connecticut (E2), a manufacturer in Alberta (E3) and Du-Co in Pennsylvania with more than 250 employees (E4). There is also a general note on how many units had been deployed (E5). None of these shows who the smallest US customer was as of December 2014, so the claim cannot be settled either way.