Robot adoption
Assess, select, pilot, deploy and scale — independent of any manufacturer, grounded in the same evidence that drives the Cyborg Index.
Assessment
Which tasks in your operation are actually robot-shaped today, and which are still years away. We start from the work, not the machine.
Selection
A shortlist built from evidence: what each machine has demonstrated, where it has been deployed, and what remains vendor claim.
Pilot
One task, one site, measures agreed before the robot arrives — and an independent read at the end. Detailed below.
Deployment
Getting the first units into live operation with measures in place, so performance is observed rather than assumed.
Scale
Moving from one site to many: fleet economics, support model, training, and the evidence needed to justify each step.
Start with a pilot
Most organisations start with one task and one site. A pilot answers the question faster than a study does.
- 01Scope the use case
One task, one place, one shift pattern. We write down what the robot has to do and what would count as working.
- 02Shortlist the machines
Two or three candidates drawn from evidence in the Cyborg Index — what has actually been demonstrated, not what is claimed.
- 03Agree the measures
Throughput, intervention rate, uptime, safety conditions and the cost of running the pilot. Set before the robot arrives.
- 04Run and observe
A fixed window on site with the vendor. We record what happened rather than what was presented.
- 05Independent read
A short written verdict: what the machine did, where it needed people, and whether a wider deployment is justified.
What we bring
- Evidence on every candidate machine
- A pilot design with measurable outcomes
- Vendor coordination and question sets
- An independent written verdict
What you bring
- A real task and a site to run it on
- An operational owner for the window
- Access to baseline performance data
- Safety and site sign-off
We are not a reseller. We take no commission on hardware and hold no inventory — every buying route we name is the manufacturer or an authorised seller. Pilot work is paid for by the organisation running it, which is what keeps the read independent.
This work is moving to WorkMachines, our adoption platform — launching soon.