Who we serve, and what automates first for each

The same robot means different things on a machine shop floor, a grocery store at midnight and a hospital corridor. These pages map the site for each kind of buyer: the jobs that pay back first, the machines that make the shortlist, what has to be verified, and the deployments other people have already published.

• Machine shops and job shops: Ten to two hundred people, CNC lathes and mills, part families that repeat mixed with one-offs that do not, and a second shift you cannot staff.
• Metal fabricators and weld shops: Welders you cannot hire, a backlog priced by capacity rather than demand, and repeat weldments that run in batches.
• Food and beverage plants: Cases onto pallets at the end of the line is the most common first robot in a food plant, and the end of line is also where the labor turnover is worst.
• Plastics molders and converters: Injection molders are the easiest machine in manufacturing to tend with a robot, which is why so many of them already are.
• Warehouses, distribution centers and 3PLs: The robot that pays back first in a warehouse is rarely the one in the sales deck.
• Grocery and retail facilities: National chains already run fleets of autonomous scrubbers every night.
• Hospitals and health systems: Hospitals move carts, trays, linens and meals all day along the same corridors, and clean acres of hard floor every night.
• Airports, transit and public venues: The first Neo scrubber at a United States airport went to work in Cincinnati in 2019 and cleaned 200,000 square feet a week in its pilot.
• Roofing contractors, building owners and facility managers: A roof survey by drone is the most common commercial drone job there is, and the one where the honest read matters most, because half the people who ask for one need a rope crew, a pole camera or a moisture meter instead..
• Cities, counties and public agencies: Parks departments mow with robots, police departments buy bomb squad robots and patrol robots, public works inspects sewers by camera crawler, and sheriffs recover evidence with underwater ROVs.